Yeah, yeah, yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo Life, they wonder, can they take me Nah, that, nah, yo, yo
I come the housin tenement buildings Unlimited killings, menaces marked for Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads I owe to it my success With of the fittest, everyday is a chal' I think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud Confronted with racism, to feel foreign Like, the darker you are the your problems I reached for the stars but I just slippin On life mission, never know what's next Ancient kings Egypt, up to Julius Cezar Had a of the globe, every continent Yo, Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan Pakistan, America, Yo, Protestants, Jews, Blacks, Arabics Call a truce, world peace, stop like savages No war, we should take time and The bombs and makes mankind extinct But since the beginning of time it's been men with fightin lives 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 hate last forever (uh, c'mon) It's time that we together (yeah, for the world) Everybody wants to the world (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon) World (peace), world (peace), world (peace),
Yo, there's brothers on the block, posted up they own it That's they corner, from New 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, know it's against him So in order for him to survive, one day he Open up his eyes to the set and rise 'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in land of opportunity at what this country's got There shouldn't be nobody 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 want land, mansions, and gold The in Africa, oil in my control The world's resources, all its residuals But then comes foes, I have to it with missels And I become the wanted But is it worth hearin a million people problems and followed by Secret I guess, attempts at my life loaded barrels So move over Colin Powell or throw in the towel, yo
Y'all know that's my style, to hit you at the time No other to what Nas write down Tell you my dreams, show you my pain is You could get you love, be a chain in cause You right now There's so many that's or locked up inside the beast, I'm a hot light now It's whatever man of manifest to the real The is to wake up 'cause time reveals All this hate can't forever All my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's like you right and never passed You just transcend, I know I'm see you again Hopin I reach the world and win Ain't nothin without struggle, listen up, it's We to fear arms, now the weapons are chemical In Hip-Hop, the are lyrical To be the best you challenge the best, then the are spiritual Top of the world for the kid and Poppin any rapper's off his shoulders no contest I know the Most High hear me, so fly you near me You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - is power To every projects and street corner, we gotta get ours now
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Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm Niggas ain't nothin man, The men, women and children killed by the police and Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you what I mean? Yo, this war just show me is like, whatever you want out of life Whatever you feel is rightfully yours, go out and it Even if that means and death You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what country's about is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka