Why is it you fail, to see a man   In the same hour, that his kin come grinnin'?   In another code, fell asleep, party mode, tryin' to come up   From the ashes that defy your lift, listen up      Ladies seem sweet, the ocean meets the mountain peaks   Stone-walker, side-walker, watch those loose lips, wall street   Numbers set by stock movers, buy my tip so I can touch   Not for no print size, plate saint, white wasted H2O   Four coats will make it glaze      Beams rooted like dogwood, between the pine, wind   Twenty-fo' stores with malt for sale, still fetchin' water   Out the well, help em size, find the grind, find the times   Where the times weighed as hard as [Incomprehensible]   Find me shoes, baby daddy      Rico daddy, he didn't break the TV   So why should I weep, man gon' bye, see you when my light blow   Got more good than dirt to throw, and I won't pull   Between the halo, and a fork-pitch suffocated by my rhymes      Worship high, it's just another name   Take your time and concentrate on it   Take a stand and make your hand a fist   We got a reason to resist      The mortal orbit your nadir, don't cross the fade   Chillin' in Decatur, where it's greater, secure streets   In the hood late at nights, dippin' fine   Hard not to be slippin', if they come, I won't run   When it's time, I ain't trippin', I got my date   And you got yours too, I see, the record sales soar      After the death, of this creator, genocidal, tendencies   When they mention he, who listens, to unseen hand   Cappin' the faces of the young black man, when they sing   Knowin' that we godly, got to keep it right      With my people 'cause I'm equal no matter, how much I make   I can't escape fate, the date as I await, as I await, I can't fake   Can't fake, I can't fake, I'm true with it      A duffel for the cash, platinum within myself from another earth   Spill, Nina, tea leaf, your very, existence is considered a privilege   Buck up, and they can't, be revoked pay your taxes, uhh, snake eyes   Strapped with flaws, still iterant to a lot of laws      Man made, but that's a dot, everybody   From the east coast don't wear it back home, whatchu think?   Gettin' they thoughts mixed negative, after reassurances   I say a prayer, plus if I, entertained them   It's easy to commit, hard to resist      And once we cross that line segment, not even our producers   Can bring us back, eyeballs peeled   Eardrums opened, egos stripped stroked, another low blow   Delivered to the hip-hop culture, uhh   Industry consists of thieveries, prostitutes   And folgers if somethin' bigger than us, past the blue   Told us that it wasn't a heaven for G's      Then we do this, continue your devilish deeds   I mean activities, that just show, that it's a hell   For jacks, independent, but you distributed by your masters   Labels still a slave, but you just get to eat at   The white man's table, lookin' like Gable Gunther   On the Guinness Book of World Records, God didn't like ugly   And he wasn't too fond of cute either   A climate of caution, a climate of caution in effect      Worship high, it's just another name   Take your time and concentrate on it   Take a stand and make your hand a fist   We got a reason to resist      Wherever I am, you can feel god is present, in the midst of darkness   If you spark up bet somebody gonna see it   It is necessary for me to speak these words now   Another day here hasn't been promised to me      Don't you agree that you never fail when you try   I'm willing to die but first I am willing to live   And I over stand that this will be a lifelong sacrifice   In order to reveal you gon' have to destroy   And if you ain't thinkin' right you damn sure can't act right      Somebody raise your fist and let me know I'm not alone   Revolution, doesn't mean fightin' in these streets   And it ain't gonna be no revolution without the women   And, it ain't gonna be no future without the children      And, it ain't gonna be no children without the men   And, you can't have no love without the trust   And no, trust can come without communication   And you can't communicate if you ain't got shit to say      You can't teach about what you, been deceived about too   Any book you read is still limited education   You gonna have to talk to God personally and time is short   And, He's on His way, and I will receive   A grateful word for what I've done   And this is all that really matters to me      In time you will see what I told you was true   And I ain't have to rhyme to say that to you   I ain't got to rhyme to say it to you, it's true      Worship high, it's just another name   Take your time and concentrate on it   Take a stand and make your hand a fist   We got a reason to resist      We got a reason to resist   We got a reason to resist   Resist, resist, resist   We got a reason to resist