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[00:01.42]As lightning strikes and thunder pounds,
[00:03.35]Over the grey skies of East London town,
[00:05.75]Prophecy K returns from the underground,
[00:08.43]Signified by the peoples crying, trumpet sounds,
[00:11.17]Yeah the system it tried to shut me down,
[00:13.71]But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around,
[00:16.07]Blood, sweat, and tears for years,
[00:18.10]It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground,
[00:20.57]Yeah this is how hunger sounds,
[00:22.01]And I'm the hunter now, 'Lash the lion-heart,
[00:24.78]A.k.a. the man behind the iron mask
[00:27.48]For ten years straight I been raising the iron bar,
[00:30.05]Tryna' breathe the life back into this dying art,
[00:32.80]So why try and part, when you'll meet the same fate as that lion Scar,
[00:36.89]This game's fake, full of two-faced, lie in grass
[00:39.74]Who will sell their soul and ass just to climb the charts,
[00:42.49]Yeah, but me I put in too much time in the graft,
[00:46.14]Refining my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance,
[00:49.24]Picture K'lash miming on Trance,
[00:51.38]Now picture Dr. Dre beats/'lash, rhyming with stars,
[00:54.01]It's all fate and I got mine in my grasp,
[00:56.20]Their all snakes, let them die in the past,
[00:58.59]But who knows what the future holds,
[01:00.21]These N.W.O. soldiers will probably shoot me cold,
[01:02.65]All because the truth was told,
[01:04.00]You should know I did it from the heart.
[01:16.40][01:05.86]I'm still here, pushing after several years,
[01:18.91][01:07.91]I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear,
[01:21.59][01:10.71]I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
[01:24.39][01:13.49]I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears,
[01:26.98]I don't do this for the happy ravers, or the aggie haters,
[01:30.45]I do this for the warriors and the gladiators,
[01:33.31]I do this for those whose lives you never cared about,
[01:35.63]Can't pronounce their names, their origins, or their whereabouts,
[01:38.14]Those brought up around tragedy and sadness,
[01:40.86]Who adjusted and found normality in the madness,
[01:43.55]Fight the power, till I'm out of breathe like Malcolm X,
[01:46.62]You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless,
[01:49.34]They'll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt,
[01:51.97]But rap about the government, you might aswell shoot yourself,
[01:54.62]Industry fairies, say I rap about conspiracy theories,
[01:57.91]Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me,
[01:59.73]Got the eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion,
[02:02.39]The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant,
[02:05.25]I rise like a phoenix immediate from the ashes,
[02:07.91]My existence is inconvenient for the masses,
[02:10.97]Though we are equal I despise an imitation,
[02:13.39]I live for my people, and die for liberation,
[02:16.06]I stand as a visionary; someone got plans of killing me,
[02:18.81]To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines,
[02:21.71]Hannibal with the mask, and an animal with the bars,
[02:24.07]I'm grappling with my shackles; I channel it through my art,
[02:26.80]Feel it in the ambience; Champion: Heavyweight
[02:29.69]My life is nothing but my pride is something you could never take,
[02:32.70]Think I'm illusive?, or think I'm a nuisance?
[02:35.18]I swear these major labels must think that I'm stupid,
[02:37.95]Keep your 360's your convincing these dudes with,
[02:40.60]Like I'll give you the blueprint for pimping my music,..
[02:43.22]I say that like K'Lash, he's another lion,
[02:46.17]Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying,
[02:48.79]Spit all of it with or without a big audience,
[02:51.40]Through the Blood, Sweat & Tears I stand victorious!
[03:32.65][03:21.81][03:10.63][02:59.92]I'm still here, pushing after several years,
[03:35.15][03:24.46][03:13.15][03:02.17]I'm still here, standing strong, never in fear,
[03:37.88][03:27.13][03:15.76][03:04.90]I'll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
[03:40.69][03:29.80][03:18.64][03:07.71]I'll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears,
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