I'm standing up, I'm sitting down A precious jewel - creation's crown? Someone is holding my breath Someone is finding my fears While the self got lost as the world appeared Gimme more, gimme less ...

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I'm waiting for somet...I've already lost mys...The flower is bending ...And I tried to believe in...I tried to still see with black eyes ...I wanted to tame you ...And the sea is forming shac...And I came to a resting p...I tried to take just ...The future is wasted ...And I can't see the light from the sun ...I can't even see where to run ...The whole world is burn...And the sea is forming shac

yeah, uh, we up in the studio...Woody freezy up in the nassa me, ya easy...lso gon' do support the fleezy...And do the damn theezy how we ...The theezy on the deezy, we supposed ...Doozy deezy, where the easy, tell 'em easy...Drivin', mixin' the words...Drivin', mixin' the words..., it go ways to get the money long time on ...I'm caught up in the scramble where them...I'm the world wide hustler, I keep the gats in the muffler...Married the block then broke up...Still in the hood still choppin' my knicks...Now my mind clear, I design to stall fea...I'm like puff and cous that dudes that I kia...N.O.R.E. Cali weed I spark three...And bitches say "I'm a friend like Biz...I get sucked off, I used to buck off...But now I can't do it I go straight up nort...So now I just chill and rema...So please let the motherfuckers know who I be, it go...Drivin', mixin' the words...Drivin', mixin' the words...Yo, yo, yo I'm on the block buggin'...I lay like some semen...I ran wars I divide the plan tours...N.O.R.E., dirty, black certy, I'm a Benz drop niggas on I-30...Now stand still, see I stand still...'Cause my niggas I stand still...See I lay, lay back, carn...Drivin', mixin' the words...Drivin', mixin' the words...Yo, I carry mack, mack, m...ed in black, black, black...I keep it gutter, gut...Yo, I carry mack, mack, m...ed in black, black, black...I keep it gutter, gut...Yo, who gonna stop the guard try and rock the guard?...On the dance floor frontin', had to drop the guard...ittle niggas run in the ville they punk for...Ain't shit change, still no pot to piss in...When I gotta piss and the pot is missin'...ight and early when I wake up son...Don't front 'cause I'm the one your boss read I'm from, it go...Drivin', mixin' the words...Drivin', mixin' the words...Yo, I carry mack, mack, m...ed in black, black, black...I keep it gutter, gut...Yo, I carry mack, mack, m...ed in black, black, black...I keep it gutter, gut

en if everything we see is black...There’s still a chance that we ca...I said that it’s fo...Forever’s what I mean...I look at you forever...Forever’s all I see...Well I can take the blows...Of course I feel the love...I wanna hear the sweet sweet music...en if everything we see is black...There’s still a chance that we ca...I said that it’s fo...Forever’s what I mean...I look at you forever...Forever’s all I see...Cross the line to dream of go...I see the door you close behi...r, forever’s what I need...When I look at you...er, forever’s all I see...I wanted to be close...It’s what I miss the most...I ain’t ever felt s...en if everything we see is black...There’s still a chance that we ca...en if everything we see is black...There’s still a chance that we ca...I said that it’s fo...Forever’s all I see...I look at you forever...Forever’s all I see

ival factions along the Israeli - Syrian bo...villians, damage to the base is said to be ...And the Israeli jets are re...I stay droppin that b... as Hugh Heffner if I had a mansion full ...Put you in the same position and lets see what you'd really d...They tell me that I sold out if I execute the no snitchin rule ... an idiot, he ain't the only one with an op... to my publicist so the media is gonna hear...and get at me, then I'm gonna get on the CD and get at you ... just to learn that I pay for classes ...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news ...In the strip club ballin',...White man ballin, black man starvin, looks ...I cant hate to see a black man, and I don't hate to see a black hand ...When your black and you educated people say "You ain't black man!" ...May be black in your appearance ...e like slaves, work the bill but don't even... credit ain't, then the bank still wont loan it ...'t payin taxes then I hope you're enjoyin... just to learn that I pay for classes ...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news ...Cigarettes are still causin cancer, and chronic smoke'll still get you high ...In the streets or in the store, know a coupl... that sexy mug-shot I could get a million...Even Michaels in the media, they like to...Get involved and I bet the indite you, goto jail and I bet they don't writ... just to learn that I pay for classes ...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news, news news, let em know the truth, truth, truth...Its the morning news ...The world is crazy, every day I gotta wake up to th...Silly rappers think I'm worried about a p...I show more purpose t

You've now entered the quest to, the black triangle ...Now you know the reason for the Black Mafia theory, hahah...It still comes out black ...See it's just a hair tr...Now I clown around, when I hang around, with the Underground ...But when I'm with the Mafia we droppin' Y...f you're a hoe then I'll be knockin' ya, ...ldn't jock me cause I'm popular ...The group with the glock, I love to pop the gun ...ouldn't try to stop the Mafia ...pack a person, pump the trunk ...I'm bumpin' G-Funk, b...How many times I gotta tell ya, don'...er be my hoe or hit the do', you're nothin'...That's why I love to go on tour ...es of whores behind the door, a nigga's nau...Now, I'm sippin' on a fort... you want just pass the blunt and kick it M...Well, I am the danger, the danger, similar to ...I rhyme for rounds of... Tokyo, check it as I choke a slow poke r...I got new clips so tr...Cause ooh I'll send your team to the showers ...and rippin' and got the Wonder Twin powers ...I devour much venom, lunch breaks I shit em, I just stink ... you're done black, see Cutty was the stopper ...But you'll call me the indo when I chop ya with the shopper ...Sting ya with the stinger, flex the trigger finger ...I blow you to bits and I be gettin' a kick out of grabbin' the mic and flingin' ...Lyrics with the maximum security ...I smoke a splif but I'm not Jamaican, so ...u shoulda stayed in the house" ...Nowww, clear the smoke, and grab a f...I like to clock big G...Cause see if you was in my shoes, you'd be doin the same ...ver ever fuck with, I'm a G-er playa ...Cause when I'm bustin' on a punk, I could never be a cu...ep this, cause when I'm goin deep ...The only customers gettin' served in the house, is the pussy I freak ...I tell em, "Sit down,...ey gotta pay a fee, I am not ...The No Mack Nigga, from the planet called Silk ...I'm from the planet Black Mafia Life, that fr... come take a sip of the psycho-mega- ...Nah, I fucked you bitches on the last record, yo ...It's like I'm high on a raggamu...Me the dope sound what a man, the myth (come) ...Mon they wanna see me fade shit, like I did last year ...So I POST on em, then I COAST on em ...No I never never never h... you snitch you say I did it you're bound...So I pass the joint, to my man KM...I'm still a nigga with a pimp...-say what you want, I'm workin' for a cha...Give a call to the clinic, ATL's the pimp camp ...And see which playa, is up for the downstroke ...oast them hoes like I said before ...I fuck four bitches a day, and I'm lookin' for more ...Like, Bam, and I'm like, DAMN ...gaz done labeled me the dangerous neighborh...Cause they know I can ...When you wake up in the morning I only give ya five p...I'll be out by your garage, awaitin' behind the bushes ...ove waitin' to talk see ...See I'm a giant and the rest of them are fa...ly when it comes to the bitches and they mo...to dish a tramp but I don't ...ase back Mafioso on the corner, what you, w

en, Short Dawg's in the house ...t's gettin close to the end y'all ...ick it like this on the last album ...I hope you get the message, no it's no...I'm still hungry, I want some more stuf...Peep the game and don't be l...I'm talking bout you ...Swear to tell the truth, hell no I didn't pop him ...You see I got all my game from the streets of Californ...ll up a fat one for the players to smoke ...Short Dawg in the house, I know you ain't trip...got to read between the lines ...t long, for a young black man ...But the boy makes money and...with the twenties on top and the fifties on the bottom ...I fuck the top notches oh yes ...n a long time since I first got down ...But I still keep makin these fu...Get it while the gettin is good, get...Get it while the gettin is good (rep...I know you tired of b...The first thing you nee...e they just love to see the black man strugglin ...our dollar bills in the air ...He said meet me at the White House and I was there ...Cause I'm one in a million, black man rising ...to keep me down but I always surprise em ...Spend my money in the hood, I know it's all good ...and you should do the same I told you peep the game ...Too $hort, you know I'm the man ...I lend my brother a hand cause I know I can ...I keep going and goin but I'm not the pink bunny ...I'm not beatin on a drum I never stop thinkin ...I'm gettin all I can if you don't ya...I can't wait to get t...When I was broke, I couldn't afford a m...But now I'm now rich I can't be fake I gots to keep it rea...ong time baby since I first got down ...But it still keep making these f...arned my respect in the street ... The ghetto's been good ... I'm never going to tu... The true and living so I got to kick the facts)

eah, rest in peace, I'm sayin son ...I migrate, Queens Jam...I recognized life is ...revolves around me, I couldn't see that ...nd hip-hop, you got the feedback ... gram stashed up in the cheese stack ... high smokin lah in the rye ...u want to take heed the hidden treasure ...d in your mind like the seams in butter lea...I keep it real wit a ...I cut the hand off a nigga tr...bomb-diggy bomb you see ...Black juice in the Yukon driver's seat...I keep it real wit a ...Cut the hand off a chicken ...bomb-diggy bomb you see ...ow it's Nore now in the fuckin driver's sea...Yo I shot rapid, burn we...Still time to score, yo w...The freak, Rick James type, I got the long pipe ...Yo escape the Nor-van, swervin, T...Network like the internet, wit Henny...I keep it real wit a ...Cut the hand off a chicken ...bomb-diggy bomb you see ...ow it's Nore now in the fuckin driver's sea... and disappear play the projects on super-l...h, bangin just like the studio ...The game is still fresh until the jake try to spoil i...Even people I was loyal wit, give...Be the first who turn arou...I keep it real wit a ...keep it real nigga) I cut the hand off a nigga tr...bomb-diggy bomb you see ...(WHAT!) Black juice in the Yukon driver's seat...I keep it real wit a ...k, CUT YA HAND OFF) I cut the hand off a nigga tr...bomb-diggy bomb you see (WHAT!) ...Black juice in the Yukon driver's seat

en, Short Dawg's in the house ...'s gettin' close to the end y'all ...ick it like this on the last album ...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...I hope you get the message, no it's no...I'm still hungry, I want some more stuf...Peep the game and don't be l...I'm talking bout you ...Swear to tell the truth, hell no I didn't pop him ...You see I got all my game from the streets of Californ...ll up a fat one for the players to smoke ...Short Dawg in the house, I know you ain't trip...got to read between the lines ...t long, for a young black man ...But the boy makes money and...With the twenties on top and the fifties on the bottom ...I fuck the top notches oh yes ...n a long time since I first got down ...But I still keep makin' these f...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...I know you tired of b...The first thing you nee...e they just love to see the black man strugglin' ...our dollar bills in the air ...He said meet me at the White House and I was there ...Cause I'm one in a million, black man rising ...to keep me down but I always surprise em ...Spend my money in the hood, I know it's all good ...And you should do the same I told you peep the game ...Too $hort, you know I'm the man ...I lend my brother a hand cause I know I can ...I keep going and goin' but I'm not the pink bunny ...I'm not beatin' on a drum I never stop thinkin'...I'm gettin' all I can if you don't ya...I can't wait to get t...When I was broke, I couldn't afford a m...But now I'm now rich I can't be fake I gots to keep it rea...ong time baby since I first got down ...But it still keep making these f...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...Get it while the gettin' is good, ge...Get it while the gettin' is good ...arned my respect in the street ...The ghetto's been good ...I'm never going to tu...The true and living so I got to kick the facts)

We ain't ready to see a black President...We ain't ready to see a black President...Change the World (Change the World)...They forgot us on the block...Got us in the box...w many rallies will I watch?...I ain't got it in me ...I got a semi to spark...The game's in a drought...Cooking up in the Pyrex...Still I'm pledging allegian...I bleed this from Que...Hate to see one of their own su...And let a black man guide us...Change the World (Change the World )...What?s the black pres. thinkin? on e...Is it how can I protect my life?...KKK is like 'what the fuck', loadin' they...Cause i'm riding with my cr...I think Obama provide...and colors to erase the hate...I'm thinkin' I can trust this brot...I feel...Change the World (Change the World )...Bentley Coupe off the Richter...Bitch-called-life, I pimped her...Nothing on the stove...New-improved JFK on the way...It ain't the 60's again...e ain't falling for the same traps...Standing on the balconies...Where they shot the King at...Change the World (Change the World )...vilege to introduce the next President of the United States:

[Verse 1 - Black Thought] ...Head of the Class, Magna Cum La...Beats bring the beast out me, flagr...Keep making the people listen what I spin ...eat, leaking out of the pen ...g to take a piss in the wind ...l standing close to the edge, so don't stre...Now who the type built to last?...It's no question, the Master! ...Villain in Black wit no stets in my ........Cut the check ...[Verse 2 - Black Thought] ...h, Illadel! Home of the original gun clappe...Out on the wrong corner your s...You got the fool wanting the rules, enter at ris...ll keep a gat under the matress ...Yes, I done seen things yo...houettes waiting in the wings ready to D ...ticking you without the gats ...I'll still be on the grind when it all c...s my worst bar then I'm a take it right b...[Verse 3 - Black Thought] ...t ain't nothin like I rush I get, in front of the band ...On stage wit the planet in the palm of my hand ...To the force, crush whoever might of thought I was playin ...I'ma flame some, sentence the shit, the cold twist to slang...You see the master piece, but t...ere Geffen Records, I'm off the handle ...Cut the check, and yo it be...Nigga black ink, red was a G fi...We finna have the whole industry at a stand still ...See me put the system on lock like

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For the same reason (wish) ...The games needs him ...Plus the people need someone...'Cause they know I'm gonna give 'em wh...I guess that makes me...Of the cleanest rapper ...Call me the chiropractor ...I've been the boss ...In a 190 black Benz ...Now they shut down the stores when I'm shopping ...I'm him! ...Come at me I'ma rip your soldier...Young, bitch, I'm nasty ...All black clothes til ice lay...And every time I close my lids ...I can still see the borough, I can still see the Bridge ...I can still see the dreams that my niggas ain't never lived to see ...ll them angels open the door for me ...That's what I call mature ...That's what I call a g ...That's what I call a pimp ...That's what I call a gangsta ...To the fullest, shit ...I'm tryin' to make mo...So I can be more clean ...As I grow yearly ...I can see things more clearly...I'm hog-tied ...The corporate side ...My lawyers only see the Billboard charts as...Nas the only true rebel since the beginning ...Still in musical prison, in jail for the flow ...I never change nothin...I can't sit and watch...So shit, I'ma drop it ...I'm a hustler in the studio ...No matter what the CD called ...I'm unbeatable, y'all