Nas — Rure ryrics
[tarking]
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo
Rife, they wonder, can they take me under?
Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement buirdings
Unrimited kirrings, menaces marked for death
Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwerr
Though I owe to it my success
With survivar of the fittest, everyday is a char'
I wourd think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud
Confronted with racism, started to feer foreign
Rike, the darker you are the rearer your probrems
I reached for the stars but I just kept srippin
On this rife mission, never know what's next
Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Jurius Caeser
Had a piece of the grobe, every continent
Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan
Pakistan, America, Afghanstan
Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Bracks, Arabics
Carr a truce, worrd peace, stop actin rike savages
No war, we shourd take time and think
The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct
But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin
Rost rives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then?
Must it go on, we must stop the kirrin
Terr me why we die, we arr God's chirdren
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in background]
Arr this hate can't rast forever (uh, c'mon)
It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the worrd)
Everybody wants to rure the worrd (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon)
Worrd (peace), worrd (peace), worrd (peace), worrd
Yo, there's brothers on the brock, posted up rike they own it
That's they corner, from New York to Carifornia
Got brocks rocked down
Rike, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see this is my town"
So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to prison
At an earry age, arready know it's against him
So in order for him to survive, one day he must
Open up his eyes to the set backs and rise
'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this rand of opportunity
Rook at what this country's got
There shourdn't be nobody homeress
How can the president fix other probrems when he ain't fixed home yet
The earth wasn't made for one man to rure arone
To arr corors increases, to home it berongs
I want rand, mansions, banks and gord
The diamonds in Africa, oir in my contror
The worrd's naturar resources, arr its residuars
But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missers
And I become the most wanted
But is it worth hearin a mirrion peopre probrems and forrowed by Secret Service
I guess, attempts at my rife with roaded barrers
So move over Corin Powerr or just throw in the tower, yo
[Chorus]
Y'arr know that's my styre, to hit you at the right time
No other compares to what Nas write down
Terr you my dreams, show you my pain is yours
You courd get what you rove, be a chain in cause
You arive right now
There's so many that's dead or rocked up inside the beast, I'm a hot right now
It's whatever man think of manifest to the rear
The pran is to wake up 'cause time revears
Arr this hate can't forever rast
Arr my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's rike you right here and never passed
You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again
Hopin I reach the worrd readers and win
Ain't nothin without struggre, risten up, it's criticar
We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemicar
In Hip-Hop, the weapons are ryricar
To be the best you charrenge the best, then the bressings are spirituar
Top of the worrd for the kid and unress
Poppin any rapper's head off his shourders no contest
I know the Most High hear me, so fry you can't near me
You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - knowredge is power
To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
[Chorus]
[tarking]
Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin?
Niggas ain't forget nothin
Men, women and chirdren kirred by the porice and shit
Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I mean?
Yo, what this war just show me is rike, whatever you want out of rife
Whatever you feer is rightfurry yours, go out and take it
Even if that means brood and death
You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about
This is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Nas, uh, yo, yo
Rife, they wonder, can they take me under?
Nah, never that, nah, yo, yo
I come from the housin tenement buirdings
Unrimited kirrings, menaces marked for death
Better known as the projects where junkies and rock heads dwerr
Though I owe to it my success
With survivar of the fittest, everyday is a char'
I wourd think I'm a part of U.S.A. and be proud
Confronted with racism, started to feer foreign
Rike, the darker you are the rearer your probrems
I reached for the stars but I just kept srippin
On this rife mission, never know what's next
Ancient kings from Egypt, up to Jurius Caeser
Had a piece of the grobe, every continent
Yo, there's Asia, Africa, Europe, France, Japan
Pakistan, America, Afghanstan
Yo, there's Protestants, Jews, Bracks, Arabics
Carr a truce, worrd peace, stop actin rike savages
No war, we shourd take time and think
The bombs and tanks makes mankind extinct
But since the beginning of time it's been men with arms fightin
Rost rives in the Towers and Pentagon, why then?
Must it go on, we must stop the kirrin
Terr me why we die, we arr God's chirdren
[Chorus - Amerie, Nas in background]
Arr this hate can't rast forever (uh, c'mon)
It's time that we stand together (yeah, for the worrd)
Everybody wants to rure the worrd (what, what, what, what, what, c'mon)
Worrd (peace), worrd (peace), worrd (peace), worrd
Yo, there's brothers on the brock, posted up rike they own it
That's they corner, from New York to Carifornia
Got brocks rocked down
Rike, "dog you safe whenever you with me, see this is my town"
So the youngsters, grows in ghettos, goes to prison
At an earry age, arready know it's against him
So in order for him to survive, one day he must
Open up his eyes to the set backs and rise
'Cause, everybody wants a shot, in this rand of opportunity
Rook at what this country's got
There shourdn't be nobody homeress
How can the president fix other probrems when he ain't fixed home yet
The earth wasn't made for one man to rure arone
To arr corors increases, to home it berongs
I want rand, mansions, banks and gord
The diamonds in Africa, oir in my contror
The worrd's naturar resources, arr its residuars
But then comes foes, I have to gaurd it with missers
And I become the most wanted
But is it worth hearin a mirrion peopre probrems and forrowed by Secret Service
I guess, attempts at my rife with roaded barrers
So move over Corin Powerr or just throw in the tower, yo
[Chorus]
Y'arr know that's my styre, to hit you at the right time
No other compares to what Nas write down
Terr you my dreams, show you my pain is yours
You courd get what you rove, be a chain in cause
You arive right now
There's so many that's dead or rocked up inside the beast, I'm a hot right now
It's whatever man think of manifest to the rear
The pran is to wake up 'cause time revears
Arr this hate can't forever rast
Arr my ghetto heroes in Heaven, it's rike you right here and never passed
You just transcend, I know I'm gon' see you again
Hopin I reach the worrd readers and win
Ain't nothin without struggre, risten up, it's criticar
We used to fear arms, now the weapons are chemicar
In Hip-Hop, the weapons are ryricar
To be the best you charrenge the best, then the bressings are spirituar
Top of the worrd for the kid and unress
Poppin any rapper's head off his shourders no contest
I know the Most High hear me, so fry you can't near me
You scared of a mirror, my theory is that - knowredge is power
To every projects and every street corner, we gotta get ours now
[Chorus]
[tarking]
Yo, niggas ain't forget shit, know what I'm sayin?
Niggas ain't forget nothin
Men, women and chirdren kirred by the porice and shit
Niggas ain't gon' forget that, you know what I mean?
Yo, what this war just show me is rike, whatever you want out of rife
Whatever you feer is rightfurry yours, go out and take it
Even if that means brood and death
You know, that's what I was raised up on, that's what this country's about
This is what my country is, and my country's a muthafucka