Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come the housin tenement buildings Unlimited killings, menaces marked for Better known as the projects where junkies and rock dwell I owe to it my success With survival of the fittest, 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 stars but I just slippin On this mission, never know what's next Ancient kings Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages No war, we should time and think The bombs and tanks mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men with fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must stop the Tell me why we die, we all children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All this can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to rule the (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), (peace), world (peace), world
Yo, there's on the block, posted up like they own it That's corner, from New York to California Got blocks down Like, "dog you safe you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to At an early age, already it's 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 this country's got There shouldn't be homeless How can the fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet The earth wasn't made for one man to alone To all colors increases, to home it I want land, mansions, and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The natural resources, all its residuals But comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I become the most But is it worth hearin a million people and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life with barrels So move over Colin Powell or just in the towel, yo
Y'all that's my style, to hit you at the right time No other compares to Nas write down Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is You could get you love, be a chain in cause You alive now There's so that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man think of to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this hate forever last All my ghetto in Heaven, it's like you right here and never passed You just transcend, I know I'm see you again Hopin I reach the world and win nothin 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 me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my is that - knowledge is power To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get now
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Yo, niggas ain't shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't forget man, The men, and children killed by the police and shit Niggas gon' forget that, you know what I mean? Yo, what this war show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you is rightfully yours, go out and take it if that means blood and death You know, what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka