Uhh, regulate nigga, live for this Some of y'all don't at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the earth gray dark rings Light of cities in the nights, destination for With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew From Cuba, and nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, how you gotta move A lot of rules, some locked in the day of they birth confused Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or almighty
I'm like the farmer, words, people are seeds My truth is the soil, help you grow trees May the children come in all colors, like leaves But hold you, one of those, prophetic MC's
blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me Each channelin', past to present time Heaven shines on those innocent to how the world grows Some men become murderers and some girls hoes
And you for, everything that you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of words My is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies Ghetto prisoners rise, rise,
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Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, still hope Pray it's answered, turned real
What's a wicked nation? One with men Not charge of the situation Empty arguments and real conversation's The world'll need it, to it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, chronic herb This hurt come the honest word I now try to serve my maker What I learned, find it's way on the
So I dictate it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships made it Through strong currents and that left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan the planet
Not to get too But who decides when and if life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, O May we break away from the abroad
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You wanna buy I'm the seller of minutes I you every second low-priced, if I so lies The truth is time waits for of you In fact, he wait for the date to snatch The right from under you
Small visions of better life, if was right in the mind of young ones ahead of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for but takin' for nuttin' but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin'
Judges is not to pleas Guns where the kids play Ricochet off lamp poles and leave damp In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, where we Hope the reduce the rate of those buried young Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' man's And a newborn's, first to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our harder than the generations here before he came Goin' through the same as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the is easy For most of us, the is much harder But never faith the years just get smarter
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