Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin buildings killings, menaces marked for death Better known as the projects where and rock heads dwell Though I owe to it my With survival of the fittest, is a chal' I think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, started to feel Like, the darker you are the realer problems I reached for the but I just kept slippin On this mission, never know what's next kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar 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, actin like savages No war, we should time and think The bombs and tanks mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men 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 can't last forever (uh, c'mon) time that we stand together (yeah, for the world) Everybody to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) (peace), world (peace), world (peace), world
Yo, brothers on the block, posted up like they own it That's corner, from New York to California Got blocks down Like, "dog you whenever you with me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, to prison At an early age, already know it's him So in for him to survive, one day he must Open up his to the set backs and rise 'Cause, everybody a shot, in this land of opportunity at what this country's got There shouldn't be homeless How can the president fix other problems when he fixed home yet The wasn't made for one man to rule alone To all colors increases, to it belongs I want land, mansions, banks and The diamonds in Africa, oil in my The world's natural resources, all its But comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missels And I the most wanted But is it hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, attempts at my life with loaded So move Colin Powell or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right No compares 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 alive now so many that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man of manifest to the real The plan is to wake up 'cause time All this hate forever last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right here and passed You just transcend, I know I'm see you again Hopin I reach the leaders and win Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, critical We used to fear arms, now the weapons are In Hip-Hop, the weapons are To be the you challenge the best, then the blessings are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's head off his no contest I the Most High hear me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my is that - 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? ain't forget nothin man, The men, and children killed by the police and shit Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you what I mean? Yo, what this war just show me is like, you want out of life Whatever you is rightfully yours, go out and take it if that means blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, what this country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka