It's Your World (Part 1 & 2 (Explicit)) Common

[00:20.06] Night glows, stoves don't work, hoes at work
[00:22.91] A warrior, so I wear 'em on my shirt
[00:25.56] Wish I was free as Che was, I spend a day buzzed
[00:28.48] Trippin' on heights, wishin' for Nikes in different flavors
[00:30.96] The age of Kane and Big Daddy, shown by the caddies
[00:33.55] Uncles named Larry, that never really grabbed me
[00:36.43] My mother gave birth but she really never had me
[00:39.04] Left to the hood to play daddy
[00:40.90] Raised by niggas named Butch through the bay bay
[00:43.08] With waists so they weigh they status on the streets
[00:45.64] License plates that say they, motto
[00:47.99] This is Chicago in the hay day
[00:49.53] Similar to Good Times, I guess that I was Jay Jay
[00:52.18] A skinny nigga, young girls with penny figures
[00:55.21] So many niggas, stacked upon each other
[00:57.46] It's the black upon each other that we love so much
[01:00.25] Wonder how many of us, these drugs gonna touch
[01:02.86] Used to gang bang, ain't really thug that much
[01:05.42] Rather have some thick broads then the dutch to clutch
[01:07.85] Went to school in Baton Rouge for a couple of years
[01:10.63] My college career got downed with a couple of beers
[01:13.22] Came back home, now I gotta pay back loans
[01:15.94] Same nigga, same block, same shit they own
[01:18.80] Only thing different, quicker, they click that chrome
[01:21.40] In my defence, yo I had to hit that zone
[01:24.01] Man to man, I'm good workin' with my hands
[01:26.62] My generation never understood workin' for the man
[01:29.73] And, of being broke I ain't a fan
[01:32.19] Now I stand in the same spot, as my old man
[01:34.98] My life I planned not to be on this corner
[01:37.57] I still wanna see California
[01:39.65] But this is my world
[01:41.70] It's your world
[02:01.63] Life and death law around us
[02:03.14] Four pounds and pounds of bird from out of towners
[02:05.86] It's hard to stay grounded
[02:07.19] We stay high, that's why old folks down us
[02:09.78] Lost, nobody found us, the force that surrounds us
[02:12.30] Ain't with us, they get us on the ground and hit us
[02:14.69] We paint pictures of the chains under their names and scriptures
[02:17.56] Removed from Earth, only to return through birth
[02:20.14] Knew this girl sellin' her body, wish she knew what it was worth
[02:22.89] Between God and trash, lookin' in every car that pass
[02:26.49] With a walk that suggests head, to milk niggas she was breastfed
[02:30.03] She know dairy so she say cheese to get bread
[02:33.00] In the area where it's more weaves and less dreads
[02:35.56] Kinda scary, amongst thieves and base-heads
[02:38.49] Said it was her toes, but I could tell her soul hurt
[02:40.87] She was cold turk, growin' up she got to know hurt
[02:43.49] Very well in a world where self hate is overt
[02:46.34] Her stepfather thought he was Ike, so her mother he strike
[02:49.50] She got to like like-minded niggas, who liked crimes and figures
[02:52.31] Doin' white lines and liquor, see hard times had kicked her
[02:55.49] In the ass, it used to be thicker
[02:58.31] Life is fast, some choose to be quicker
[03:00.12] I remember in high school she had a passion to sing
[03:02.70] Now she see herself in a casket in dreams
[03:05.33] These are the children of crack and rap, blacks done lack
[03:08.55] Self-esteem, yo we forgot the dream
[03:10.80] On our Jeffersons y'all but we forgot the theme
[03:13.42] In the Chi, we even rootin' for a garbage team
[03:16.52] This queen never seen herself on this Corner
[03:19.25] She still wanna see California
[03:21.02] But this is her world
[04:35.76] Be, be here, be there, be that, be this
[04:44.80] Be grateful for life, be grateful to life
[04:50.69] Be gleeful everyday, for bein the best swimmer among 500, 000
[05:01.05] Be-nign, be you, be mom's mean pie, be little black sambo With bad hair
[05:16.28] Be aware of Willie Lynch's, Be, be boundless energy
[05:26.99] Be a four star ghetto general, be no one except I
[05:35.05] Be a strong academic student, be an A student in sociology
[05:40.24] Be food for thought to the growin mind, be the author of your own horoscope
[05:42.84] Be invited, be long-living, be forgiving, be not forgetful
[05:47.84] Be a proud run, only to return to fight another day
[05:57.24] Be peaceful if possible, but justice in ways (?)
[06:02.58] Be high when you low, be on time but know when to go
[06:07.94] Be cautious of the road to college, takin a detour through Vietnam or the middle east
[06:23.11] Be absent of wars at any past or present fought amongst themselves
[06:23.97] Be visual of foreclosure over your shoulder while beggin
[06:28.32] A nation built on free labor for reparation, Be a cartographer
[06:41.92] Be a map maker, be able to find Afro-american land
[06:49.24] Search thoroughly it may be close to black land
[06:55.26] Be amended 5/5ths, be amended 5/5ths human
[07:05.67] Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wild life
[07:12.29] Be cupid, to world government
[07:17.48] Be found among the truth, lost tribe
[07:22.92] Be at full strength when walking through the valley
[07:27.42] Be not foolish as temporary king of the mountain top
[07:37.38] Be a brilliant soul, sparkling in the galaxy while walking on earth
[07:47.38] Be loved by God as much as God loved Gandhi and Martin Luther King
[07:55.00] Be that last one of 144, 000, be the resident of that twelfth house
[08:04.10] Be... eternal
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