Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the tenement buildings killings, menaces marked for death Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads Though I owe to it my With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be Confronted racism, started to feel foreign Like, the darker you are the your problems I for the stars but I just kept slippin On this life mission, never what's next kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a piece of the globe, every Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Call a truce, world peace, actin like savages No war, we take time and think The bombs and tanks makes extinct But since the beginning of time it's men with arms fightin Lost in the Towers and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we must stop the me why we die, we all God's children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All this hate last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time that we together (yeah, for the world) wants to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), (peace), world (peace), world
Yo, there's brothers on the block, up like they own it That's they corner, New York to California Got blocks down Like, "dog you safe whenever you me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes to prison At an early age, already know it's him So in for him to survive, one day he must Open up his eyes to the set and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in land of opportunity Look at what country's got There shouldn't be nobody How can the president fix other problems when he fixed home yet The earth wasn't made for one man to rule To all colors increases, to home it I land, mansions, banks and gold The diamonds in Africa, oil in my The natural resources, all its residuals But comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I become the wanted But is it worth hearin a million people and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my with loaded barrels So move over Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the time No other to what Nas write down Tell you my dreams, show you my is yours You get what you love, be a chain in cause You right now There's so many that's dead or up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's man think of manifest to the real The plan is to wake up 'cause reveals All this hate can't forever 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 leaders and win Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's We used to fear arms, now the weapons are In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you the best, then the blessings are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's head off his shoulders no I the Most High hear me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my theory is - knowledge is power To projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas forget nothin man, The men, women and killed by the police and shit Niggas gon' forget that, you know what I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of Whatever you is rightfully yours, go out and take it Even if means blood and death You know, that's what I was up on, that's what this country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka