[00:05.60]It's a war going on
[00:11.67]It's a war going on
[00:14.86]Yeah, it's a war going on
[00:18.38]God told me this movie will write itself
[00:20.87]Spread love, be wise and let foolery fight itself
[00:23.89]Cause it's a war going on outside on the corner
[00:26.75]It's a war on your TV screen every morning
[00:29.80]Not the war with the bombs and the helicopters swarming
[00:33.02]But the war for your soul, that's what everyone's ignoring
[00:35.77]It's a war going on
[00:38.69]Yeah, it's a war going on
[00:41.85](I was just talking to the homie the other day man)
[00:47.91]He said I'mma pump this ******' caine, pump this ******' caine
[00:50.62]Hug this block, tuck this ******' Glock, all you suckas lame
[00:53.69]This my spot, this my ******' spot, you know what I rep
[00:56.76]I go Deebo make my way up from a kilo on that step
[00:59.63]Thug to death, yeah I mean the death, let that pistol talk
[01:02.63]You say truce, me speaking no english, ***** go get some heart
[01:05.69]**** the law, ***** **** the law, they can see me too
[01:08.67]**** a school, and the teacher too, they no teach the truth
[01:11.61]What's a pops, never had a pop, let that ratchet pop
[01:14.77]I'm too real, gave a fiend a pill for a Magnavox
[01:17.74]Man **** we got, **** we really got, but this gutter s**t
[01:20.68]All my ****** hug the strip and all my b*****s love to strip
[01:23.63]So suck a ****, I got kids, and a baby mama too
[01:26.60]Yeah she work my ******* nerves like a baby mama do
[01:29.79]I be stressed, I be hella stressed, smoke a bunch of ****
[01:32.67]High for real, pop the pill and drop the Xanny in my lean
[01:35.71]I can scream, cause you just smile like everything is fine
[01:38.52]Hope is fun, when I grab my gun, come take your life or mine
[01:41.51]Suicide, yeah it's suicide, life is suicide
[01:43.81]**** your right or wrong, the s**t that I been on is do or die
[01:47.79]If I do I die, if I don't I die that's suicide
[01:50.07]Got the devil with a gun against my brain like choose a side
[01:53.83]Cause it's a war going on...
[01:58.64]Cause it's a war going on outside on the corner
[02:02.84]It's a war on your TV screen every morning
[02:05.99]Not the war with the bombs and the helicopters swarming
[02:08.70]But the war for your soul, that's what everyone's ignoring
[02:11.63]It's a war going on
[02:14.78]Yeah, it's a war going on
[02:17.93]God told me this movie will write itself
[02:20.85]Spread love, be wise and let foolery fight itself
[02:23.59](Cause it's a... it's a... it's a war going on)
[02:35.72]I love the hood with my whole heart
[02:39.17]It whole heartedly been a part of me in my own thought process
[02:42.70]So I digest through my own art
[02:44.54]That I'm blessed though I digress due to slow starts
[02:48.27]But who else could bring the hood out
[02:51.37]And tell 'em when they let God in, it brings the good out
[02:54.15]Learn a lesson and listen
[02:56.98]My current composition concerns your present condition
[03:00.02]And turn direction envision of givin' blessings and wishin' you well
[03:02.77]Well wishing entails fishing
[03:05.45]Siftin' through hell's kitchen to find good
[03:08.04]Have a God-like mind as the divine should
[03:10.95]Define good within yourself I think the time's good
[03:13.82]And may these lines live forever like a line should
[03:17.96]It's a war going on and your soul fighting
[03:21.23]So frightening within you I see thunder and both lightening
[03:24.43]Boat striking, snow ice and hail
[03:26.42]Your whole life unfold like, cold nights in Hell
[03:29.83]In a mode like, you're feeling low like, like you don't like yourself
[03:32.67]You got no sight, no insight
[03:33.94]No foresight, that's the s**t that your foes like
[03:35.54]Run up on a ***** get 'em froze like
[03:37.17]Put the 4-4 to his foes like
[03:38.53]****** 'bout to take a pic, trying to get the pose right
[03:40.19]Red dot, headshot, hit 'em close like
[03:41.02]Like, like all theses ****** I've got to shoot one
[03:43.55]**** one pistol I'm cocking two guns
[03:45.13]**** shoe money, I'm coppin' coupes son
[03:46.66]No y'all ****** not 'bout to do none
[03:48.23]Guns, that's a way of life, get money not God
[03:49.74]You got guns, we got bigger guns, go get one and I ride
[03:53.73]If I die, they say I went hard, I go super hard
[03:56.74]***** you with this s**ts or not? We gon' get this loot or starve?
[03:59.85]**** you doing? Writin' in a pad, **** you making songs
[04:02.80]What you rappin', boy you know what's happ'nin', that s**t take too long
[04:05.79]**** you mean? Get this ******* cream, get this ******* cream
[04:08.81]Hug this block, tote this ******* Glock, can't let these suckers scheme
[04:11.82]S**t too real, s**t too ******* real, I'm too real to dream
[04:14.81]So when it's -- [gunshots] --this cold world won't feel a thing
[04:18.47]Lonely days are gone
[04:21.65]All them nights to come
[04:24.17]Waited to be yours
[04:27.06]So let's make love not war
[04:31.25]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:33.80]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:36.78]So let the choir sing and let 'em know
[04:39.78]Whoa...