[Rakim]

Yeah, it's the god Rakim

Word up, I'm blazin this out to all my comrades

Yanamean? From the slums of New York, to the gutters all over the world

This is for y'all....

Through my travels I try to take righteous steps

Because right or left could mean life or death

No matter how trife it get, my sights is set

But it's twice the threat when the ?nights is death?

My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed

To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows

A deadly plague spreadin negativity, viciously

Unto every city be in ghetto misery

Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die

But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye

Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments

But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring

Tallying, slowly turnin into barbarians

More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin

Livin in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men

Waiting for the world to end



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