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 Unlimited killings, menaces for death Better known as the projects junkies and rock heads dwell I owe to it my success With survival of the fittest, everyday is a I would I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, started to foreign Like, the darker you are the realer problems I reached for the stars but I just slippin On this life mission, know what's next kings from Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a piece of the globe, every Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics Call a truce, world peace, stop actin savages No war, we should take and think The bombs and makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's men with arms fightin Lost lives in the and Pentagon, why then? Must it go on, we stop the killin Tell me why we die, we all children
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in All this hate can't forever (uh, c'mon) It's time that we together (yeah, for the world) wants to rule the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), world (peace),
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, wants a shot, in this land of opportunity at what this country's got There be nobody homeless How can the president fix other problems when he ain't fixed yet The earth made for one man to rule alone To all colors increases, to home it I land, mansions, banks and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's natural resources, all its But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it missels And I become the wanted But is it worth hearin a million people problems and followed by Service I guess, attempts at my life with loaded So move over Colin Powell or throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the right No other compares to Nas write down you my dreams, show you my pain is yours You could get what you love, be a in cause You right now There's so that's dead or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's man think of manifest to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this hate forever last All my ghetto in Heaven, it's like you right here and never passed You just transcend, I I'm gon' see you again Hopin I reach the world and win Ain't nothin without struggle, up, it's critical We to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical In Hip-Hop, the weapons are 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 shoulders no I know the Most High me, so fly you can't near me You scared of a mirror, my is that - knowledge is power To every projects and street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, what I'm sayin? Niggas ain't nothin man, The men, women and children killed by the police and Niggas ain't forget that, you know what I mean? Yo, what this war just me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it Even if that blood and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this about This is my country is, and my country's a muthafucka