Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement Unlimited killings, marked for death Better known as the where junkies and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I would think I'm a of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, to feel foreign Like, the darker you are the realer problems I reached for the but I just kept slippin On this life mission, know what's next kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a piece of the globe, continent Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Call a truce, world peace, stop like savages No war, we take time and think The and tanks makes mankind extinct But the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin lives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must stop the Tell me why we die, we all God's
- Amerie, Nas in background] All hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time that we together (yeah, for the world) Everybody to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), (peace), world
Yo, there's on the block, posted up like they own it they corner, from New York to California Got locked down Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, to prison At an early age, already know against him So in order for him to survive, one day he up his eyes to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this land of Look at what country's got There shouldn't be homeless How can the president fix other problems when he fixed home yet The earth wasn't for one man to rule alone To all colors increases, to it belongs I land, mansions, banks and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's natural resources, all its But then comes foes, I have to it with missels And I become the most But is it worth hearin a million problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life loaded barrels So move over Colin Powell or throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the time No other compares to what Nas write Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is You could get what you love, be a in cause You right now There's so many dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man think of manifest to the The plan is to wake up 'cause reveals All this can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's you right here and never passed You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you Hopin I reach the leaders and win Ain't without struggle, listen up, it's critical We used to fear arms, now the are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, then the are spiritual Top of the for the kid and unless Poppin any rapper's head off his no contest I know the Most High hear me, so fly you near me You of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power To every projects and street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, what I'm sayin? ain't forget nothin man, The men, women and children killed by the police and Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you what I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it Even if that blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this about This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka