We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas in the struggle all out to...e gotta do to avoid the raid...but you can't avoid the grave...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas in the struggle all out to...e gotta do to avoid the raid...but you can't avoid the grave...When you live by the sword, you die by the sword...'ll probably die in the vocal booth spittin... didn't have one in the pipe...Die 'cause the jewels in my neckla...Or die in the streets over someth...From a kid on the block while sittin' in the drop...ought I snitched to the feds...h row, sentenced to the chair...Die 'cause the cops tricked me to ...Die tryin' to steal the fate of my enemy...Or die 'cause the door wasn't open, i...Die 'cause the 4 was broken, it wo...a wasn't focused on the block...them niggas thought the coke was in the spot...ust my time to feel the flame...e a couple shots to the heart, to the brain...Got all the dough, don't know the cost of the game...dn't wanna come off the chain...Couldn't handle the rock, got horsed in the game...'d rather go out in the Masjid makin' Salot...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas of the struggle all out to...e gotta do to avoid the raid...Avoid the cage, but you can't avoid the grave...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas of the struggle all out to...e gotta do to avoid the raid...Avoid the cage, but you can't avoid the grave

We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas in the struggle all out ta...e gotta do to avoid the raid...but you can't avoid the grave...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas in the struggle all out ta...e gotta do to avoid the raid...but you can't avoid the grave...When you live by the sword, you die by the sword...ll probablly die in the vocal booth spittin... didn't have one in the pipe...Die cause the jewels in my neckla...Or die in the streets over someth...>From a kid on the block while sittin' in the drop...ought I snitched ta the feds...h row, sentenced to the chair...Die cause the cops tricked me ta ...Die tryin' ta steal the fate of my enemy...Or die cause the door wasn't open, i...Die cause the 4 was broken, it wo...a wasn't focused on the block...ght tha coke was in the spot...ust my time ta feel the flame...e a couple shots ta the heart, or ta the brain...Got all the dough, don't know the cost of the game...dn't wanna come off the chain...Couldn't handle the rock, got horsed in the game...'d rather go out in the masjid makin' salat...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas of the struggle all out ta...e gotta do to avoid the raid...Avoid the cage, but you can't avoid the grave...We chapters of the same book, just a d...Niggas of the struggle all out ta...e gotta do to avoid the raid...Avoid the cage, but you can't avoid the grave

Situated in the present alive in the ...int of change is on the horizon, ...Chapters open, chapters close, ... memory still plays the events ...The universe unfolds

vening, I turned by the pages of time. ...And tore out the chapters when you were mine....ttempted to cut out the memories of you. ...I searched through the chapters, referring...for the one with the caption: "Till deat...pserately clings to the floor of my mind, ...ts for its place in the pages of time.

Situated in the present alive in the...int of change is on the horizon,...Chapters open, chapters close,... memory still plays the events...The universe unfolds

The sun burnt in...Took the dive, but...A flag without the wind...The whole day through...Took the diamond...Lost in the dark...Chapters missing...To feel the warm...I had to chase the sun...Lost in the dark...(lost in the dark)

Now wit the guess appear ...From the fucked up scar to the tough luck bar ... my cousin fightin' chapters in a crushed up car...dled live beef from the pluriel I beef ...Yeah, we let the hate rise ...they right money is the root of all people ... know Big it's just the type of nigga I am ...ep being crushed my the earth ...en I'm plucked from the earth ...I mean since the early days I was cu...For my niggas in the cold, that would ne...For the life I lead, things...As the man of the house I had to brin...ssipin' (get em' to the hospital)

Who I'm is? The phenom, them niggas...ll wig, blacked out the crib ...I'm plotting on the mousetrap, about to snatch the cheese ...You bugging where the couch at? Wu, til t...e, like George with the cherry tree ...Pick the pace up, pants sagg...tin on my Clan from the Stat' when we ain't...Ghostface, jump out the window for a little...The joopy look, my main... slide through with the Ghost ...Ruffle inside the bubble goose ...It's the Odd Couple ...Playing with the big toys that make ...Echo in the hall, a scared voic...Made the club moist, shattered the windows ...The rap kingpin bust the Black Jesus is comi...The words you talk, that'll be the words you walk ...Body you in the bed where the nurses are ...ut, watch me insert the dart ...gues from Bricks to the Persian Gulf ...Wet behind the ear, you're not pre...For the project flow, with ...Yo, the hard wire, starting...up in my chains, or the way that I speak ...Check out the grays on the side of my waves ...d out, balled up in the caves ...All up in the parrot, nose numb, ...Hit the gym for two weeks, ...ws unique now, meet the new me ...Zulu Nation in the 80's in front of Ma...I start my own chapters ... armors merc you at the shows ...Cancun, catch me in the room, eating groupe...Killing for the whole click is sick

Where in the hell did the hip hop go? ...Where in the hell did the hip hop go? ...Where in the hell did the hip hop go? ...Leap out the room grab the old broom ...ermelon and walk on the moon ... black berry inside the cool-aid ...le bunk bed a 40 to the head ...t and sailed around the world don't laugh ...te a book in 31,000 chapters yeah yeah that's it...I seen the ghost of Augie cree...I met the queen of all my dre...en a time bandit in the sand ...Looking for the Acapulco pot of gol...Hit the road and had to hit...A tree grew all the way up to the sky and I smoked it...He was a buzzing in the zone like he was za...The fellowship shop is from the west coast ...I'll bring the chronic you bring the kegs ...You do the hip thing and I'll do the hop ...butt naked watchin' the cosby show ...Old reruns of the Jefferson hits ...ide me some skin on the black side pimp ...e E is breakin' all the laws ...ney I kilt (killed) the kids w/my rap ...Yo I'll scratch the break you rap the cornbread hey ...I drink out the jug I eat out the pot ...Snake in the grass livin' in the past ...I'm the chugalug thug from ...So bring in the news singin' the blues ...Sittin' on the roof top listenin' to the wind ...My life is on the end my grin is pret...alone a nigger from the boonies ...lone (....?????what the hell is he saying??...t brother who spits the cornbread

(Chorus) - Move out the way when I'm passin...I got heads to the front and the back of you. ...I got the world in my hands, ...I'm the messiah, I'm anti-c...like John Lennon in the 70's. ...Dead Celeb's the movement, your the student, ...It's time to change the world kids! ...Here's the blue-print. ...Like the ghost of Kurt Cobai...ts screamin', "Fuck the system!" ...I'm the pain in Axel Rose's...So thank God the prince has finally ...To save from the whack water at El C...I'm the anti-American teen ...Like the hands of Michael Ja...So let the games begin, you either turn with the world or you watch ...age hidden in these chapters ... and Max Payne. I'm the magic in the hands of David Blai...Welcome to the wonderful world of ...The revolution will now

Let seven be the one for me; six chapters of life laced with ...ome a war to be won the soul of a voice... ...Let the voice of the soul be free ...Close to the top there's no look...The magic lives in sincerity, in truth, behind the

One for the ace and two for the deuce ...eady Mister Cee cut the record real loose ...I want to bless the mic, I caress with ...Back off the microphone, you can...ew jack, steppin in the area ...Do the knowledge as I quot...Five chapters and I still ain't b...Bout time I turned the microphone loose ...Even the level of the devil or Exorcist ...or them, no matter the quan-tity, you don'...as the chosen flows in, the competition throws ...the towel, my sharp ton...Breakin the mic in half, just l...Leave the metro scared and pe...My only comp is the man in the mirror ...the death zone, this is the wrath, do not enter...These ain't the grounds for MC's to...These is the grounds that the Kane is conquerin ...right and recite on the mic to excite ...the man with mic swingi...Sent to ride off in the sun, said Kemosabi ...As the Kane remains everla

The best in life is fre...Though the world's on fire ...The best in life is fre...The shadows fading out ...As the day grows bright ...And we write new chapters of our life ...Keep the focus on the rising sun ...The best in life is fre

I'm walkin' to the other side ...With the devil tryin' to tak...In the ashes of a cigarett...Trick cards fool the eye ...Bury tears in the chapters you shut ...Sometimes the jail can't chain the cell ...And the rain's too plain to...The scarecrow's only sc...I've been diggin' the ground ...Through the dust and the clouds ...And the junkyard piles ...Might be the end of you then ...The wind got my fingers...Over all the treasures we lost ...Sometimes the jail can't chain the cell ...And the rain's too plain to...The scarecrow's only sc

Changing with the times, ...Are average the citizen's sources o...And the world might cease ...If we fail to tame the beast ...From the faith that you rele...And the modern age emerged ...And relive the dark chapters of history ...And the world won't wait ...For the truth upon a plate