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Mine eyes seen the coming of seduction |
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Discussing who to trust in the clutch and |
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Nobody worthy in the world we know |
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Burning them ashes past fingertips |
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The final drips in a glass I sip |
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The inhibition of class is split |
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The have and have not, the have not rot |
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The haves benefit 'til we drop |
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Picking crops of cotton and then forgotten |
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On blocks with sounds of gun shots |
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Alarm clocks, how does it stop? |
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Limited option, liberty or death |
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Branded the flesh like he was cattle |
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We're equivalent, just imagination babble |
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This generation lacks |
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True knowledge of how the past has trapped you |
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With psychological lassos over Adam's apples |
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Soldiers blast through fitted caps |
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To wear them glory flags do not democracy make |
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Militant asshole I rap so my mind's free |
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And read to feed my seeds |
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Believe the lesson was heard, the third eye sees |
| [01:01.29][Hook x2: Reks] |
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**** what you heard, forget what you knew |
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Its time to unlearn, system reboot |
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Telling you the truth, or is it lies |
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Claiming its the truth, but are they lies? |
| [01:20.91][Verse 2: Reks] |
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Keep letting them folks lie to me |
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Dying to be, a part of their cult |
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Or say **** 'em all, stand and revolt |
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Leader? the Pope says you have a better chance at the pearly gates |
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For a minimal fee, he's cleaning a dirty slate |
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For worthy angst, Picasso paints a white Jesus |
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Black is evil I guess, that's how elite sees us |
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Can't hail Ceasars, need somebody for us non-believers |
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See I ain't racist |
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But Apollo Creed and Mr. T is |
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Just not enough heroes, to make us not feel like zeros |
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My school ain't have no Langston Hughes murals |
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No Medgar Evers paragraphs |
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No conversations on the Willie Lynch theory in my history class |
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Ya'll could laugh, at Honeymooners and the Happy Days |
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Shit is not amusing, no black neighbors |
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If moved in, the house value depreciate |
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Show ratings decline |
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Gotta un-see, be not blind... |
| [02:01.89][ Hook x2: Reks] |
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| [02:11.28][ Verse 3: Reks] |
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All the power hungry money control the atlas |
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Fighting for space before time elapses |
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Comfort zone collapses, a home captured |
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To say we care is ass backwards |
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Selfish in nature, just pure facts kid |
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This last verse is for my sons to heed |
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Cause when my son's in need |
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Upon a bleeding heart they love to feed |
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Kick you when you down, witnesses they're up in here |
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So I apologize to you now for being sons of man |
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Evil incarnate monsters stand, without a code of ethics |
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The road is set with traps, to leave us desperate |
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A call for help is never met with effort |
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Minus a motive, violence explodes with the force of atomic |
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Focused on Hiroshima, we voted for peace and got a piece of they're land |
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Divide us foes, we are damned |
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If we do, if we don't, we not American fam |
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Into this world I brought you, see what I taught you |
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Decide, either lion or lamb |
| [03:07.41][ Hook x2:Reks] |
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