Tytuł: Waiting for the world to end

• Wykonawca: Rakim
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[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
  
   [Chorus] 2x
   "Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel"
   "In case you didn't know"
   "Never movin backwards" [Rakim]
   "Complicated" [Rakim]
   "Know what I mean?" [Rakim]
  
   I see destruc-tion, even little kids trust none
   They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from
   When I see em, we build and have a real discussion
   "Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the day?" "What up, son"
   "You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen
   I got demands for livin, can't stand division
   Make grands on my mission, till everything glisten
   Women in the Expedition, no plans for prison
   In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G
   Sittin in my MSC sippin Hennesy
   Gettin high, and watch life pass me by"
   So I asked him why, wit a fast reply
   He said "I'm livin just to die without any feelings
   So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go
   Wit this dime I know
   Wit all of her girls and all of my mens
   Waitin for the world to end"
  
   Chorus 2x
  
   Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky, and never cry
   But the streets left him to die, now it's death in his eye
   Livin a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin
   From be-ginning to end, in it to win
   Evil rebels, doin what we doin in the ghetto
   Thinkin if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
   You can't win, your life be end, try again
   Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?"
   That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
   To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates
   Teach the youth and speak the truth
   Show em what peace can do when ?ill? reach for you
   And my reward won't be jewels or cheese, it's even better
   I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
   If I tell em they intelligent women and great men
   And live, stop waitin for the world to end
  
   Chorus 2x
  
   "I'm ragin, rippin up the stage an'
   Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?" [Rakim]
   "Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?"
   "Rakim"