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As lightning strikes and thunder pounds, |
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Over the grey skies of East London town, |
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Prophecy K returns from the underground, |
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Signified by the peoples crying, trumpet sounds, |
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Yeah the system it tried to shut me down, |
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But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around, |
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Blood, sweat, and tears for years, |
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It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground, |
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Yeah this is how hunger sounds, |
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And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion-heart, |
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A.k.a. the man behind the iron mask |
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For ten years straight I been raising the iron bar, |
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Tryna' breathe the life back into this dying art, |
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So why try and part, when you'll meet the same fate as that lion Scar, |
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This game's fake, full of two-faced, lie in grass |
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Who will sell their soul and ass just to climb the charts, |
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Yeah, but me I put in too much time in the graft, |
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Refining my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance, |
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Picture K'lash miming on Trance, |
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Now picture Dr. Dre beats/'lash, rhyming with stars, |
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It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp, |
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Their all snakes, let them die in the past, |
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But who knows what the future holds, |
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These N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold, |
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All because the truth was told, |
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You should know I did it from the heart. |
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I'm still here, pushing after several years, |
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I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear, |
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I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears, |
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I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears, |
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I don't do this for the happy ravers, or the aggie haters, |
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I do this for the warriors and the gladiators, |
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I do this for those whose lives you never cared about, |
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Can't pronounce their names, their origins, or their whereabouts, |
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Those brought up around tragedy and sadness, |
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Who adjusted and found normality in the madness, |
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Fight the power, till I'm out of breathe like Malcolm X, |
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You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless, |
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They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt, |
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But rap about the government, you might aswell shoot yourself, |
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Industry fairies, say I rap about conspiracy theories, |
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Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me, |
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Got the eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion, |
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The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant, |
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I rise like a phoenix immediate from the ashes, |
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My existence is inconvenient for the masses, |
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Though we are equal I despise an imitation, |
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I live for my people, and die for liberation, |
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I stand as a visionary; someone got plans of killing me, |
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To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines, |
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Hannibal with the mask, and an animal with the bars, |
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I'm grappling with my shackles; I channel it through my art, |
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Feel it in the ambience; Champion: Heavyweight |
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My life is nothing but my pride is something you could never take, |
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Think I'm illusive?, or think I'm a nuisance? |
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I swear these major labels must think that I'm stupid, |
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Keep your 360's your convincing these dudes with, |
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Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimping my music,.. |
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I say that like K'Lash, he's another lion, |
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Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying, |
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Spit all of it with or without a big audience, |
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Through the Blood, Sweat & Tears I stand victorious! |
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I'm still here, pushing after several years, |
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I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear, |
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I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears, |
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I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears, |
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