[Intro/Chorus: Wyclef Jean]
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Delivered straight from the temple
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Hip-hop ya don't stop
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One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!
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[Lauryn Hill]
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Well as an infant I was born into religion
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My mother called me back - this brother she forgot to mention
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Was just one baptist - me! The stories o' God sent
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His only forgotten sooonnn who gave his life
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to make sure that I would have one
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As I learned in Sunday School, he's got to care
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of who's ready to disrespect, my mother and father would be Taboo
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But as I grew, I met a Jew, a Catholic
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and the pastor just couldn't figure out where baptist fit
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Hastily ya paid me that'cha make me sing
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Brother has confronted me, mister ??
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I get Jehovah, a Buddha or shall I call you Adder
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or though rich for tellin' me brother
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I just like to be a scholar on the subject called realogy
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So that's how I might figure
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why they call themselves Christians, ya still call me nigga
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And off to store a black hole leaves no control over thought
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I leave my body to see the pits
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go high when the physical takes control
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No communications with the inner stealth
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The prize is the up the wise, wise who has a spiritual health
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Now to explain they had the problems/visions of gettin' along with herself
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She bought a corner, cornered herself and becomes a mourner
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Logic brothers...
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(Ahhh, yo sister can Praswell and Wyclef get some, check it out)
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[Chorus: Wyclef Jean]
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Delivered straight from the temple
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Hip-hop ya don't stop
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One o' clock, two o' clock, three o' clock, ROCK!!
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[Wyclef Jean]
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Delivered straight from the (TEMPLE), I had no time to (SAMPLE)
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My cousin's name was (SAMUEL), I wasn't allowed to use the turntables
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My dad was a preacher, so rap music was your devilism
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And if it wasn't say: Thank You Lord, I couldn't listen
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So why you s-sneak to listen to DJ Red Alert?
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To check the competition, a DJ Red Alert goes berserk
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Cause as a young lad, I had a big rap pad
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Cause he who wanted to practice would someday be the greatest guy
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So I checked them as they flippin' sometimes
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they're not flippin', they think they rippin'-rappin'
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the only rappin' they doin' is in they room before they packin'
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You gained the world sucker, but you lost your soul
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(The devil approach you us, all you do is tell a foe)
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Life after death could be eternal fire
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So some get blunted but you're back all on this when it's all over
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Mama said that blunt was a stunt to the brain
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So some say: I don't smoke but on a sneak-tip he sniff coke
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He won the lotto but now he dies of an overdose
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While the bum he picked a hole to sleep he wanted a deep throat
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So ask yourself the question: Who's really maxin'?
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Cause some check in but don't check out and either Hell or Heaven high
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But to some Earth is Hell and Heaven's death
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So they predict to be Haiti's and kill till there's nothin' left, hah
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But I'ma hit with a gun, that's harder than all guns
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Mic check from the temple, check the Tech
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(And start the nuzzle to get wreck)
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Can I get a witness? (Check the Tech)
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Get wreck (Check the Tech), check the Tech
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(And start the nuzzle to get wreck), can I get a witness?
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(Check the Techs), here we go yo
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Well I arrive let me tell you what I see in my third eye
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Many die they call a battle, they got crucified
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Justice, is righteous, in the eyes of the beholder
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While the, younger the better but the, older the wiser
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Mama used to read in deep from the book of powers
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But the bird said the word was absurd, have ya heard?
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Knowledge - I come to teach while I increase ya decrease
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Some say peace, but on a street a .45's my piece
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[Pras]
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise me two things
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try all my cheap - COME!!
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On the nineteenth of October I remember
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startin' my life as a natural leaver
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Cause I lick one-two-three-four-five-six-seven shots
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While any priest here builds his church on a solid rock, hit me
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So feel the spirit comin' from the Heaven above
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(Ay, Pras, how could you be a hood in full of so much love?)
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I said: On every man chest there |