Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement Unlimited killings, menaces for death Better known as the projects junkies and rock heads dwell I owe to it my success With survival of the fittest, everyday is a I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be with racism, started to feel foreign Like, the you are the realer your problems I reached for the stars but I just kept On this life mission, never know what's Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Julius Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Pakistan, America, Yo, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics Call a truce, world peace, stop like savages No war, we should take and think The and tanks makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of time 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 can't forever (uh, c'mon) It's that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to rule the (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), world (peace),
Yo, there's brothers on the block, up like they own it That's they corner, from New to California Got blocks down Like, "dog you whenever you with me, see this 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 land of Look at what country's got There shouldn't be nobody How can the president fix other problems when he ain't home yet The earth wasn't for one man to rule alone To all increases, to home it belongs I land, mansions, banks and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I have to it with missels And I become the wanted But is it worth hearin a million people problems and by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life with loaded So move over Colin Powell or just in the towel, yo
Y'all know my style, to hit you at the right time No other to what Nas write down Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is You could get what you love, be a chain in You right now There's so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot now It's man think of manifest to the real The plan is to wake up 'cause time All this hate can't forever All my ghetto in Heaven, it's like you right here and never passed You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again I reach the world leaders and win Ain't nothin without struggle, up, it's critical We to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical In Hip-Hop, the weapons are To be the best you challenge the best, then the are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's head off his no contest I know the High hear me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - is power To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get now
(I1) itz a hy society, roitz, peace, silently, quietly, privantly niggaz dyin, increased cryin 'cause ha boiz disceased u c wut we unleased n diz wurld 4 at c 'cause da daze we led gun warz trimblen n da kneez And we aint gat money at fed da po brokin' homez shoken n ya own mud thrown frum wut alwaze known and grown ta luv our fellow bruthaz thru GOD'z we all da same blood so y we killin niggaz iz n prisionz yell eurf diz styll isnt our we livin' n hell sense burf Y showin sum reelizsm whyle havin visionz but we gotta make it ryght 4 da yunga dat wanna b a sensation we waitin but da devil wont it so wit GOD u kan ova powah it lyke a whin itz built on a powah trip powah linez da powahz urz, swordz and rhymez itz da wurdz and da dat u spyt 4 da killinz ta tell niggaz dey kan it freedom uv speech we kan reach dem and & sho'em wut it meanz ta b a blakk wit & wit no painz, no strainz but keep ya up and u aint neva gon' fail and dont git fed up 'cause u a prevail Dreamaz
Yo, niggas forget shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't forget man, The men, women and children killed by the police and Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you what I mean? Yo, what this war show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you is rightfully yours, go out and take it Even if means blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's this country's about This is what my country is, and my a muthafucka