[Rakim]
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Yeah, it's the god Rakim
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Word up, I'm blazin this out to all my comrades
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Yanamean? From the slums of New York, to the gutters all over the world
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This is for y'all....
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Through my travels I try to take righteous steps
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Because right or left could mean life or death
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No matter how trife it get, my sights is set
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But it's twice the threat when the ?nights is death?
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My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed
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To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows
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A deadly plague spreadin negativity, viciously
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Unto every city be in ghetto misery
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Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die
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But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye
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Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments
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But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring
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Tallying, slowly turnin into barbarians
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More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin
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Livin in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men
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Waiting for the world to end
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[Chorus] 2x
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"Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel"
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"In case you didn't know"
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"Never movin backwards" [Rakim]
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"Complicated" [Rakim]
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"Know what I mean?" [Rakim]
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I see destruc-tion, even little kids trust none
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They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from
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When I see em, we build and have a real discussion
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"Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the day?" "What up, son"
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"You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen
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I got demands for livin, can't stand division
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Make grands on my mission, till everything glisten
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Women in the Expedition, no plans for prison
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In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G
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Sittin in my MSC sippin Hennesy
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Gettin high, and watch life pass me by"
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So I asked him why, wit a fast reply
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He said "I'm livin just to die without any feelings
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So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go
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Wit this dime I know
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Wit all of her girls and all of my mens
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Waitin for the world to end"
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Chorus 2x
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Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky, and never cry
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But the streets left him to die, now it's death in his eye
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Livin a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin
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From be-ginning to end, in it to win
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Evil rebels, doin what we doin in the ghetto
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Thinkin if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
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You can't win, your life be end, try again
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Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?"
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That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
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To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates
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Teach the youth and speak the truth
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Show em what peace can do when ?ill? reach for you
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And my reward won't be jewels or cheese, it's even better
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I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
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If I tell em they intelligent women and great men
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And live, stop waitin for the world to end
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Chorus 2x
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"I'm ragin, rippin up the stage an'
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Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?" [Rakim]
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"Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?"
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"Rakim"
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Waiting For the World to End
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| Rakim |
