[00:00.00] 作词 : Barrier, Griffin, Martin
[00:03.82]Yeah it's the god rakim
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[00:08.45]Word up I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades
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[00:12.95]Ya na mean from the slums of New York
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[00:18.60]To the gutters all over the world this is for y'all
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[00:23.52]Through my travels I try to take righteous steps
[00:26.10]Because right or left could mean life or death
[00:28.56]No matter how trife it get my sights is set
[00:31.22]But it's twice the threat when the night is death
[00:33.84]My mental windows refuse to close they get exposed
[00:36.44]To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows
[00:39.16]A deadly plague spreadin' negativity viciously
[00:42.02]Unto every city be in ghetto misery
[00:44.22]Don't let it get to me the writer be left to die
[00:47.04]But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye
[00:49.60]Shines enormous from pure revered Kool's and garments
[00:52.42]But it's torment jealousy drug wars or warring
[00:55.02]Tallying slowly turnin' into barbarians
[00:57.61]More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin'
[01:00.31]Livin' in the world of sin my ghetto girls and men
[01:03.70]Waiting for the world to end
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[01:06.77]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[01:11.03]In case you didn't know
[01:12.28]Never movin' backwards
[01:13.76]Complicated
[01:14.90]Know what I mean
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[01:17.26]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[01:21.47]In case you didn't know
[01:22.71]Never movin' backwards
[01:24.01]Complicated
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[01:25.12]Know what I mean
[01:26.16]I see destruction even little kids trust none
[01:29.01]They bust guns that's what they get a rush from
[01:31.48]When I see 'em we build and have a real discussion
[01:34.10]Yo Ra what's the jewel of the day what's up son
[01:36.78]You got ambition shorty said man listen
[01:39.37]I got demands for livin' can't stand division
[01:41.95]Make grands on my mission till everything glisten
[01:44.60]Women in the expedition no plans for prison
[01:47.33]In a vision the city get 2 milleni G
[01:50.01]Sittin' in my MSC sippin' hennesy
[01:52.28]Gettin' high and watch life pass me by
[01:55.09]So I asked him why
[01:56.38]Wit a fast reply he said I'm livin' just to die without any feelings
[02:00.43]So I wait here for my maker till it's time to go
[02:02.90]Wit this dime I know wit all of her girls and all of my mens
[02:06.41]Waitin' for the world to end
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[02:09.60]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[02:13.85]In case you didn't know
[02:15.14]Never movin' backwards
[02:16.61]Complicated
[02:17.52]Know what I mean
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[02:19.71]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[02:24.06]In case you didn't know
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[02:25.46]Never movin' backwards
[02:27.04]Complicated
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[02:28.33]Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky and never cry
[02:31.51]But the streets left him to die now it's death in his eye
[02:34.31]Livin' a sin of hitmen a sinister grin
[02:36.85]From beginning to end in it to win
[02:39.41]Evil rebels doin' what we doin' in the ghetto
[02:42.30]Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
[02:44.92]You can't win your life be end try again
[02:47.55]Shorty said why we born again to die again
[02:50.13]That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
[02:52.72]To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates
[02:55.41]Teach the youth and speak the truth
[02:57.77]Show 'em what peace can do when ill reach for you
[03:00.29]And my reward won't be jewels or cheese it's even better
[03:03.25]I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
[03:05.68]If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men
[03:08.44]And live stop waitin' for the world to end
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[03:12.34]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[03:16.42]In case you didn't know
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[03:17.78]Never movin' backwards
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[03:19.34]Complicated
[03:20.34]Know what I mean
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[03:22.78]Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
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[03:27.03]In case you didn't know
[03:28.25]Never movin' backwards
[03:29.77]Complicated
[03:30.84]Know what I mean
[03:31.88]I'm ragin' rippin' up the stage an'
[03:34.17]Don't it sound amazin' know what I mean
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[03:39.52]Don't it sound amazin' know what I mean
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[03:44.37]Rakim Rakim