(feat. Jully Black, Tara Chase)
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Yo, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yo, yeoooow!
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Yeah huh
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Wake up!
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Are we awake, are we wake, are we wake
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Take it low, low low low low
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Take it low take it low, take it low
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Yo!
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I said yo, I said yo, I said yo
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Yeah
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Kardinal is walkin' (yo) just how we be talking (Yo)
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Fakes get they face palmed, and thrown to the floor
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Shout out to the ghetto, girl's in they stilettos
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With their tongue rings, doing tricks, sippn' on Ameretto
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Fire pon a fosse-man a bad man truss me
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Not a homophobic, just a man who loves pssss
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Come here let me see you, and throw a little game
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You can either fall in love with the hood or with the name
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Explicit lyriciasm (yo) nuff narcissism
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Is invading hip-hop, replacing escapism
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My vision is an ism (yo) smoke it till you're high
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Unattainable goals blank to your third eye (yo)
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Maneuvering high skies to low tone flows
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Straight to the five mic sight is where the flow goes
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Killing 'em with knowledge - the mind is the key
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Just sign on the dotted line and check who you be
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[CHORUS: Jully Black (Kardinal)]
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You (you), me (me), powerful (so powerful)
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We're fighting for this goal and we ain't gonna stop
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(We ain't never gonna stop y'all)
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I said you {you}, me (me), is wonderful {so wonderful)
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We'll be makin' babies til our army's on top
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('Til we standing on the top y'all)
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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The funk is in the air (yo) you might suffocate
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If you don't strap on your mack on and watch I articulate
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We don't shake hands with cops (yo) we don't participate
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Light up an informer and make his mouth menstrate (yo)
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Black is for Black, they can't understand that
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So they call it "reverse racism" and try to pin it back (yo)
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But if we ain't for us, who for us? them? - nah!
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If it was up to them they would have us ridin' in the back of the bus
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In handcuffs and other shackles (yo) check Mr. Bush
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Plant cocaine on me and call it operation push
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Our Prime Minister is actually second in command
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Bending over to the star spangled-politically strangled
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So we have to move (yo) through the underground
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Encode the funk mode and claim back the sound (yo)
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'Cause what's mine is gonna stay mine, word to line for line
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Off the top and all that
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Peace to magnificent rap
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[CHORUS]
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[Tara Chase]
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Look out
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Cameras are watching you, they watching you from birth
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And they be killing us softly by biologically attacking us first
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Don't think that you're immune
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'Cause your acquired system is soon to be consumed
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Flesh eating disorder, false claims of water
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I rip through the lies so I can bare sons and daughters, and soldiers
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Build my camp up like an army over Giza, running suicide missions
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You can't disarm me
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[CHORUS: no Kardinal]
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[Jully Black ad-libs]
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[Jully Black]
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Making babies 'til our army's on top
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yeah, yeah
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Oh yeah
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Wake up!
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Take it low, low low low low low
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[OUTRO: Kardinal Offishall]
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Dear Lord,
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I really, I don't even know how to ax this
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You know, I can't, this this this is not an act
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I must, from the bottom of my heart, ask forgiveness for my sins
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But you know what
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I ask that you give me the strength to be able to reach
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all of those peoples, on every street corner, every block, every ghetto
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All of those people, that we sometimes think are not worthy of blessings,
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they're worthy to me
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And I think that as a man given the blessings you have given me
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The opportunity to speak, that I need to speak the language
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of those people, and I need to reach them
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You know, beacuse there's are a lot of good people on this Earth,
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but there still some people that need a talking to
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And I ask you to give me the strength to reach out to those people
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You know because I believe everybody is worthy of your blessings
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So I ask that you give, you give me, my family, my crew, F.O.S, the circle
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All of us, all the babies that are being born
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You give us the strength to be able to deal with it how you see fit
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Beacuse you give all of us the power, as much as some people might not believe it
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| You give |
