Check the man, sittin' in the church My hurts, flesh like me hits the dirt She's paralyzed her feet to her thighs And the man who pulled the didn't even lose his necktie I check Jimmy hair at the barbershop He plays the bass guitar, like David the harp His knowledge name is Greek, 'cause whenever he got the wisdom of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep
Sometimes he of the fame in Madison Square Garden So some seek stardom, but they forget But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is what my told me So if I fall, could the catch me I away, on a mountain, got tempted by Satan Got bitten by a cobra, but the Lord took my So who's side am I on? I'm on the Always the lyrics, no time to contradict
Some seek stardom, then forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty
Well aiyyo, family I beseech you, in the hopes I may reach you My taught me one day that this mid-day would come someday Born to talk that jive, with peaky hair grown And teachers disliked me, 'cause I where my culture be So now yeah mom I read history, I neglect my passion see Rock it's of new to me, 'cause my true love was poetry White was good and bad was black but black was just a massa Built for that B. Jack and I'd like to save you from the wicked
D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet the to mourn, tomorrow's death The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this violence Help me make me my black bezerk and why cast it Time to blaze the angels heads are braided that you make me See what's hard for me that don't you flee
When I enter your vicinity, you see my God ain't never me So yo I be wised up with to go and be The and good and see what's wrong with me And through your insecurity of me and my So bredren you let me be or has thou asked to much from thy To the truth and not to lie? Oh my
seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then forget Harlem Brothers keep pockets full, but their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Sisters keep their pockets full, but souls run empty
But as I grew, I cause the master told me From a baby to a woman from a to a baby is so short, hardcore becomes hard-corpse Step in a coffin where the no longer the source
There we go, we go, there we go I got mine now you get yours? We never open so we neglect And protect the ones that's not People really seem to care and then they cry out "My people! Why we treated equal?" As we flee, we flee our own communities we our family in poverty And then we blame it on so family please recover Oh please come now with you can come with me now And blow now if you want to, through
Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then they forget Families keep their full, but their souls run empty
Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then they forget People keep their pockets full, but their run empty
seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem seek stardom, then they forget Harlem We keep our full, but our souls run empty
Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then they forget keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty