Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can take me under? Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the tenement buildings Unlimited killings, menaces marked for Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads Though I owe to it my With survival of the fittest, everyday is a I would think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be Confronted with racism, started to feel Like, the darker you are the realer your I reached for the stars but I kept slippin On this life mission, never know next Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Cezar Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Call a truce, peace, stop actin like savages No war, we take time and think The bombs and tanks makes extinct But the beginning of time it's been men with 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 hate can't last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time 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, there's brothers on the block, posted up like own it That's they corner, New York to California Got blocks locked Like, "dog you safe whenever you me, see this is my town" So the youngsters, in ghettos, goes 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 wants a shot, in this land of Look at what this got There shouldn't be nobody How can the fix other problems when he ain't fixed home yet The earth wasn't made for one man to 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 then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with And I become the most But is it worth hearin a people problems and followed by Secret Service I guess, at my life with loaded barrels So move over Colin or just throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know my style, to hit you at the right time No other compares to Nas write down you my dreams, show you my pain is yours You get what you love, be a chain in cause You right now There's so many dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man think of to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this hate can't last All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, like you right here and never passed You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the leaders and win Ain't nothin struggle, listen up, it's critical We to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, the blessings are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's head off his no contest I know the Most High hear me, so fly you can't me You of a mirror, my theory is that - knowledge is power To every projects and every corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't nothin man, The men, women and children killed by the and shit Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know 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, that's what this country's This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka