歌手: Rakim
时长: 03:09
Uplift - Rakim[00:00:00]
Written by:William Griffin/Victor Padilla/Ron Lawrence[00:00:00]
Levantore[00:00:03]
Yeah it's just ghetto[00:00:03]
Kid test the devil to hit the next level[00:00:05]
Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal[00:00:08]
Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal[00:00:10]
In a thug's paradise where love have a price[00:00:13]
So we love for life like thugs love the night[00:00:15]
They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with bug lights[00:00:18]
Some hug mics to the world hung like parasites[00:00:20]
The likes lethal the mics lead you[00:00:23]
A sneak preview watch what we do[00:00:25]
And what the hood teach you[00:00:27]
I still see through the eye of a needle[00:00:28]
So I can watch people[00:00:30]
'Cause slug backwards is evil[00:00:31]
Levantore[00:00:33]
Yo what's this[00:00:35]
Yo bust this[00:00:36]
Yo it's time to up lift[00:00:37]
They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs[00:00:38]
And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks[00:00:41]
Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks[00:00:43]
Taunt cops with more props and we want not[00:00:46]
Panhandling with your mans and them[00:00:49]
Scrambling gambling plans to win[00:00:51]
While the cops clock 'em thieves flock 'em[00:00:54]
Women watch 'em traders wanna top 'em[00:00:56]
Ay yo what's the problem[00:00:57]
Before the narcs knock 'em[00:00:59]
Opposite playas plot to rob 'em[00:01:00]
The ghetto got 'em[00:01:01]
My man said it's rough at the bottom[00:01:02]
Levantore[00:01:04]
Ghetto alert let's do[00:01:06]
Whatever work to get rid of the curse[00:01:07]
We went from 1st to America's worst[00:01:09]
On this competitive turf[00:01:11]
Now let's inherit the earth[00:01:13]
There's more prize for one another[00:01:14]
And call shots[00:01:16]
12:00 'til the next ball drop[00:01:17]
All year around plus they shuffle non stop[00:01:19]
You think it's rough at the bottom[00:01:22]
It's even rougher on top[00:01:23]
My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me[00:01:24]
And everybody's side of the street'll be celly[00:01:27]
Ain't nothing funny[00:01:30]
Burn plenty and burn money[00:01:31]
And earn money and watch the century turn 20[00:01:32]
Levantore[00:01:35]
We all should from the woods[00:01:36]
To the big city and the small hood[00:01:38]
Everybody should be welcome[00:01:40]
To the ball if we all could[00:01:41]
But we fall 'cause we brawl[00:01:43]
Yo it ain't all good[00:01:44]
We need to play right[00:01:45]
Stay tight with ya air alight[00:01:46]
Keep your game tight[00:01:47]
No need to play trife[00:01:49]
Get cheese from the daylight to the late night[00:01:50]
And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life[00:01:53]
Before a lot parish[00:01:55]
We got to cherish if Allah let us[00:01:56]
Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish[00:01:58]
In this metropolis stay on top of this[00:02:00]
You know what the prophet is be prosperous[00:02:03]
Levantore[00:02:05]
Now we networking[00:02:07]
Respect the next person[00:02:08]
It'll be less hurting[00:02:09]
Or left lurking while we kept our dreads working[00:02:10]
Connect set for certain total networking[00:02:13]
Last chance to advance and stash grands[00:02:16]
If you have plans to have fam and mad land[00:02:18]
Own shine condone crime or hold 9s[00:02:21]
I know what the problem is killing our own kind[00:02:23]
To my flame throwers train sober remain soldiers[00:02:26]
Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us[00:02:29]
Terror terrain rollers[00:02:31]
And range rovers so the train goers[00:02:32]
Claim your fame maintain till your game's over[00:02:34]
Levantore[00:02:36]
Ghetto alert let's do[00:02:38]
Whatever work to get rid of the curse[00:02:39]
We went from 1st to America's worst[00:02:41]
On this competitive turf[00:02:44]
Now let's inherit the earth[00:02:45]
There's more prize for one another[00:02:46]
And call shots[00:02:48]
12: 00 'til the next ball drop[00:02:49]
All year around plus they shuffle non stop[00:02:52]
You think it's rough at the bottom[00:02:54]
It's even rougher on top[00:02:55]
My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me[00:02:57]
And everybody's side of the street'll be celly[00:02:59]
Ain't nothing funny burn plenty and burn money[00:03:02]
And earn money and watch the century turn 20[00:03:04]
Levantore[00:03:07]