Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin buildings Unlimited killings, menaces for death Better known as the projects where junkies and heads dwell Though I owe to it my With survival of the fittest, everyday is a I think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, started to foreign Like, the darker you are the realer problems I reached for the stars but I just kept 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, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages No war, we should time and think The and tanks makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of it's been men with arms fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must the killin Tell me why we die, we all children
- Amerie, Nas in background] All this hate last forever (uh, c'mon) time that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), world (peace),
Yo, there's on the block, posted up like they own it That's they corner, from New to California Got blocks locked Like, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes to prison At an early age, already know against him So in order for him to survive, one day he Open up his to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this of opportunity Look at what this got shouldn't be nobody homeless How can the president fix other 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, banks and The diamonds in Africa, oil in my The natural resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I to gaurd it with missels And I become the wanted But is it hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, at my life with loaded barrels So move over Colin Powell or throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the time No other compares to what Nas write Tell you my dreams, show you my is yours You could get you love, be a chain in cause You alive now There's so many that's or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now whatever man think of manifest to the real The plan is to up 'cause time reveals All hate can't forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right and never passed You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you Hopin I reach the world and win Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's We used to fear arms, now the weapons are In Hip-Hop, the weapons are To be the best you the best, then the blessings are spiritual Top of the for the kid and unless Poppin any rapper's head off his no contest I know the Most hear me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my is that - knowledge is power To projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas forget shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas forget nothin man, The men, women and children by the police and shit Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of you feel is rightfully yours, go out and take it Even if that means blood and You know, what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka