Itz A Set Up Gang Starr, Hannibal

[00:00.86] We got news for ya
[00:05.47] We got news for ya
[00:07.26] We got news for ya
[00:10.82] While they devise our demise, we grow wise
[00:13.51] Upset the set up, the element of surprise
[00:17.15] Itz a set up
[00:18.04] It's time to upset the set up
[00:21.68] Though they conspire, fake us to make us retire
[00:25.25] With the burning desire, we make it out of the crossfire
[00:27.99] Thoughts are higher, elevating and focused
[00:30.62] While the path is narrow, for those like us
[00:33.38] Primo beats provoke us to meditate like Zen
[00:36.03] With the will and the strength, of a million men
[00:37.88] While they introspect, where nothing is met
[00:40.65] It's been that way for a while, so much has come and then went
[00:43.33] But I'm confident, a few, are due to redeem
[00:46.07] Their respective kingdoms, with an abundance of cream
[00:48.77] So if I were to scheme, it would be on a realer dream
[00:52.35] Like formin' effective teams to filter the smokescreens
[00:55.06] You totin' in jeans, don't even know the true envy
[00:56.86] The man I'm pickin' apart, and plus they both were friends to me
[00:59.55] Past trivial pursuits like East and West coast feuds
[01:02.26] Come against me on the mic, many and most will lose
[01:04.93] Like most dudes, I love this hip-hop, and this rap stuff
[01:07.69] But I don't like the shows, where the ignorant act up
[01:10.43] While some'll be rippin' it, they be in the crowd wildin'
[01:13.15] Flippin' on kids, for the chains and medallions
[01:15.85] Or the kid, they don't like, from a beef from way back
[01:18.58] And decide that's the night, perfect time for payback
[01:21.23] It's wack for the group, plus the others who came
[01:23.92] To see a fat ass show, instead there's bullets aflame
[01:26.74] While they devise our demise, we grow wise
[01:38.40] Upset the set up, the element of surprise
[01:39.38] Itz a set up
[01:40.27] It's time to upset the set up
[01:41.12] Still waters run deep, this is leagues in depth
[01:42.03] Quiet as kept they slept we crept
[01:42.92] Society puts the squeeze on MC's like iron grips of death
[01:45.61] From here on in peace and blessings long cherish your breath
[01:47.49] Gifted and Rhyme, you now how we do, stay true
[01:50.11] Follow through lay down the law, 'cause it's probable and overdue
[01:53.83] All systems overdue, my guns know me
[01:55.67] I only hold a few my nigga for only a few hold me
[01:59.25] Never forget the ones before me, my momma told me
[02:01.02] Sacrifice for the ones behind me leadin' the seeds
[02:03.72] Blind leads, black on black, crime to me
[02:06.48] Inclined to refine my creed, I eat thinkin' lead
[02:10.09] Conceive to make the beast bleed, enhance thoughts
[02:11.90] Like tossed trees 'cross the Earth three-fourths
[02:14.63] Let my offspring feed all three, corpus delectis cost me
[02:17.36] Lost and found on enemy ground, quoted although
[02:20.06] They don't know how we get down at sound speed we breed
[02:22.79] No more confined to blind greed and self destructive deeds
[02:25.43] Heed my freedom war cry, of course I'm N.Y.
[02:28.19] Hug my peeps that died, the loved ones alive
[02:30.88] Reinforce and fly high as I lie so shall I
[02:34.47] From New I to Cali, next plateau U.N.I.versal
[02:36.23] Unleash the black rain
[02:38.93] Show 'em who in control, electro-magnetic
[02:41.64] Pull on the hole, ill as toters bang out
[02:43.57] 'Til we sittin' on swole, the strongest way to grow
[02:47.15] The only way I know, Underground Railroad on track
[02:49.89] No physical or mental chain can shackle that
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