Uhh, regulate Bravehearts nigga, live for Some of y'all don't at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the like gray dark rings of cities in the nights, destination for kings With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew From Cuba, and pointed toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, that's how you gotta A lot of rules, locked in solitude 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 come in all colors, change like leaves But before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
With blunted flows, seven hundred in me Each channelin', from to present time Heaven shines light on those innocent to how the grows Some men murderers and some girls become hoes
And you for, everything that you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the never dies Ghetto rise, rise, rise
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Yo, we gotta be God's children, in tall buildings Rats crawl in hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, still there's Pray answered, dreams turned real
a wicked nation? One with blind men Not takin' of the situation Empty arguments and conversation's needed The world'll it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, it's herb This hurt come the honest word I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I dictate it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships that it Through strong currents and winds that left the stranded To sink in the Atlantic, jigs the planet
Not to get too But who decides and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the of your name, O Lord May we break away the chains abroad
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You buy time? I'm the seller of minutes I give you every low-priced, if I so lies The is time waits for none of you In fact, he can't wait for the to snatch The right from under you
visions of better life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ones of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for nuttin' but Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where they be waitin'
Judges is not relatin' to bustin' where the kids play Ricochet off poles and leave damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, we from Hope the future the rate of those buried young Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' man's And a newborn's, first time to be at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and our pain Hustlin' harder the generations here before he came Goin' through the same as our fathers Readin' history, but who's the
For the game is easy For most of us, the game is much But never faith the years just get smarter
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