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Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shit, we can't grow? |
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All we are is dope dealers, and gangstas and hoes? |
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And you believe when they be tellin you lie, all on the media? |
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They make the world look crazy to keep you inside? |
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Why you listen when the teachers at school |
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know you a young single parent out strugglin, they think you a fool |
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Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes |
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Killin shorty future, I wonder how do we last it |
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Underground in they casket? Ancestors turnin |
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I'm learnin somethin every day, there is no Lazareth |
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Words like God is Greek or Latin |
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So if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters |
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My niggaz is chillin, gettin high, relaxin |
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Envisionin, ownin shit, yo it can happen |
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What do we own? Not enough land, not enough homes |
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Not enough banks, to give a brother a loan |
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What do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask |
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for reperations, then they hit us with tax |
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And insurance if we live to be old, what about now? |
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So stop bein controlled, we black zombies |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
| [01:11.10][Nas] |
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Aiyyo we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind bars |
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We've already gone insane |
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They've already gave up, cut our own heads offs |
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Stab our own backs and dream too much |
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without fulfillin reality; too greedy and |
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can't have one or two chains, we need three of dem |
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Can't have one or two guns without squeezin 'em |
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on our own people and, fuck black leaders |
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cause whites ain't got none leadin them, the rhythm is cosmic |
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Nas is divinity, the deity's prophetless |
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All get down and get up |
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Victims walkin 'round with Down's Syndrome, all stuck |
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Faintin, shoutin, catchin Holy Ghost in church |
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Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doin it first |
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We begged, we prayed, petitioned and demostrated |
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Just to make another generation - black zombies |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
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You scared to be yourself, cause you in a trance |
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Feel free, hear the music and dance |
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If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, just for you |
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Dumb niggaz with long beards like they Arabs or Jews |
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or from Israel, (?)bish'meal Allah, el-rachman, el-Rahim (?) |
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Islam's a beautiful thing |
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And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to bring |
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peace against the darkness, which is unGodly |
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So what's the black man's true religion, who should we follow? |
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Use your own intuition, you are tommorrow |
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.. that's the sound of the beast |
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I'm a Columbia record slave, so get paid |
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Control your own destiny, you are a genius |
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Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
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Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) |
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We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) |
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Wake up! Black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years |
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Ghetto niggaz won't have it no mo', can I get a witness? |
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Why listen to somebody else tell you how to do it |
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when you can do it yourself; it's all in you, do it, do it |
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Do it niggaz.. |
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