Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they take me Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the tenement buildings killings, menaces marked for death Better as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I would think I'm a of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted racism, started to feel foreign Like, the darker you are the realer your I reached for the but I just kept slippin On this life mission, never know next Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Had a piece of the globe, every Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, a truce, world peace, stop actin like savages No war, we should take and think The bombs and tanks mankind extinct But since the of time it's been men with arms fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? it go on, we must stop the killin Tell me why we die, we all children
- Amerie, Nas in background] All this hate can't last (uh, c'mon) It's that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to 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 down Like, "dog you safe whenever you me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, to prison At an early age, already know it's him So in for him to survive, one day he must up his eyes to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this of opportunity Look at this country's got shouldn't be nobody homeless How can the fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet The earth made for one man to rule alone To all increases, to home it belongs I want land, mansions, and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's resources, all its residuals But then foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I become the most But is it hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life with barrels So move over Colin or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right No other compares to what Nas write Tell you my dreams, you my pain is yours You could get you love, be a chain in cause You right now There's so many that's or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man think of to the real The plan is to wake up 'cause time All this hate forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and never You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again I reach the world leaders and win Ain't without struggle, listen up, it's critical We to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, the blessings are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no 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 every projects and every corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas forget shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't forget man, The men, women and children killed by the and shit Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you what I mean? Yo, this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you feel is yours, go out and take it Even if that means blood and You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka