Check the crippled man, sittin' in the My hurts, flesh like me hits the dirt She's from her feet to her thighs And the man who pulled the trigger even lose his necktie I check Jimmy cuttin' hair at the He plays the guitar, like David plays the harp His knowledge is Greek, 'cause whenever he speaks He's got the of King Solomon bags in his eyes from no sleep
Sometimes he of the fame in Madison Square Garden So some seek stardom, but forget Harlem But seeking first of all the kingdom of God is my pops 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 am I on? I'm on the righteous Always check the lyrics, no to contradict
Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget They keep their pockets full, but souls run empty
Well aiyyo, family I beseech you, in the hopes I may reach you My mother taught me one day that mid-day would come someday Born to talk that jive, with peaky grown wild And disliked me, 'cause I knew where my culture be So now yeah mom I read history, I can't my passion see Rock kind of new to me, 'cause my true love was poetry White was good and bad was but black was just a massa lackey Built for that B. Nimble Jack and I'd like to you from the wicked
D-Dog clear I wouldn't be wet the black to mourn, death The evil things, glad that I, while angels wrote this violence Help me make me comprehend my black and why cast it Time to blaze the angels nappy heads are 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 after me So yo I be wised up Greek to go and be The last and and see what's wrong with me And your insecurity of me and my ability So bredren won't you let me be or has thou asked to much thy To the truth and not to lie? Oh my
seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Brothers keep their pockets full, but their run empty
Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, then forget Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem keep their pockets full, but their souls run empty
But as I grew, I knew cause the told me From a baby to a woman from a to a baby Life is so short, becomes hard-corpse in a coffin where the money's no longer the source
There we go, there we go, we go I got now won't you get yours? We never open so we neglect And protect the ones that's not People never really to care and then they cry out "My people! Why we treated equal?" As we flee, we flee our own communities we leave our family in And then we blame it on another so please recover Oh c'mon please come now with you can come me now And blow now if you want to, through
Some seek stardom, then they forget seek stardom, then they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Families keep their pockets full, but their souls run
Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget People keep their full, but their souls run empty
Some seek stardom, then forget Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem Some stardom, then they forget Harlem We keep our pockets full, but our souls run
Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem Some seek stardom, then they forget Some seek stardom, they forget Harlem Brothers keep their pockets full, but souls run empty