(We'd like to capture your minds right now)
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(What you say)
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(Take you a little bit higher)
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(What you say) (3X)
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[ VERSE 1 ]
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I like the snares loud enough to make your eyes blink from it
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Only male with the Holy Grail, drink from it
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I keep an eye on heaven and an ear to the street
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And spread a thick layer of blood, sweat and tears on the beats
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My brain rest upon the hip-hop lexicon
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That I acquired in the decade of work that people slept upon
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I don't rap, I recite the prayers of the inner soul
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Of the slave ships' human cargo
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Seemingly meaningless rappers flood the market
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With shit that make me pace in my room until I rip the carpet
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I'm fit to start up this next millennium
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Swingin¡¯ the grappling hook at cackling crooks to finish ¡®em
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The city dweller sendin¡¯ telegrams from Neverland
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The better man kind now, kindly join the caravan
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We're like a rock band that pack contraband
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And won't hesitate to stomp a man into the rocks and sand
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Brother Ali, and if you haven't heard about me
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I'm flyin¡¯ just beneath your radar so y'all can doubt me
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Stay on the sonar with crowbars to open minds
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There's a ladder you're supposed to climb
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Approach a Rhymesayer with a Buggsy Siegel sized ego
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You gon' get yourself snatched out the sky, you know the steelo
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By now, where, what, why and how
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We start the revolution real time, right now
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[ CHORUS ]
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Yes, leave it to me to create hope where there was none
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The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
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Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
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My inner soul shall cast shadows on the sun
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Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
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The human being shall cast shadows on the sun
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Leave it to me to create hope where there was none
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My inner soul shall, my inner light shall..
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[ VERSE 2 ]
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I rhyme for cats up in the harbored lights
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Prayin¡¯ they don't starve tonight
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And stay positive in the face of a harder life
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My chorus light the torch for those on whom the sun set
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Verses meant to speak for the voiceless
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So let us never be dismayed or afraid
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The ground we're walking on is stained
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With the blood of those before us who came
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Soldiers in this freedom movement are too numerous to name
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Cause the human soul yearns to be free, it's all the same
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I rhyme for runaways, prayin¡¯ that they see another day
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You gotta¡¯ make it through the winter to feel some summer days
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It's for my natives, it's history in the way their hair is braided
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Elephants never forget, that's how they say it
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Tell my man Hasim in prison keep grinnin¡¯ because he's innocent
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And tell him that the tests we get are heaven-sent
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Listen, I rap for the ones that Johnny Cash wore, the black, for
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Black and white women that were turned to crackhores
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And I empty everything in the bank to give for it
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I empty all the days of my life to live for it
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And I empty all the blood in my veins to fight for it
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So I empty all the ink in this pen to write for it
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[ CHORUS ]
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[ VERSE 3 ]
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I glance in the sky and see the same cloud configuration
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That Nat Turner saw the day they hanged him
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Resisted in the face of adversity with a fist and it was raised
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One finger extended, meaning Allah be praised
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Spent days in Heaven's embassy
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On Qu'ran pages Allah explains this legacy
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Angels doubted Adam, Jacob's brothers clapped him
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And ancient Pharaohs were too brutal to fathom
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If all the earth's oceans were ink and the trees were pens
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You could never write the knowledge of God, it never ends
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And I know it feels like the whip wounds will never mend
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But it's the way of makin¡¯ the oppressed prevalent men
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We standin¡¯ with humanity at destiny's door
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Chanting the war cry, it goes, "Never no more"
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So if y'all tryin¡¯a talk about the horrors you see
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Feel free to tell your stories through me
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[ CHORUS ]
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There's only one God and he's not just above
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There's only one man and there's only one love
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Till everybody gets what I instill in my seed
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For that y'all, we willing to bleed
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There's only one God and he's not just above
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There's only one woman and there's only one love
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We doin¡¯ |