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