Testo Uplift (Album Version - Rakim
Testo della canzone Uplift (Album Version (Rakim), tratta dall'album The Master
Yeah, in the stressed ghetto
Kids test the devil to hit the next level
Wish they was a rebel with several medals
And flex the bezel with the pedal to the metal
In a thug's paradise where love have a price
So we love for life like thugs love the night
They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with the bug lights
Some hog mics 'til the world hog like parasites
But life's lethal and might mislead you
A sneak preview, watch what we do
And what the hood teach you
I still see through the eye of a needle
So I can watch people
Because love backwards is evil
Yo, what's this? Yo, bust this
Yo, it's time to uplift
They think all we do is bust clips and puff spliffs
And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks
Vault rocks like Fort Knox in hard blocks
Torn cops with more props and we want not
Manhandling with your mans and them
Scrambling, gambling, plans to win
While the cops clock 'em, fiends flock 'em
Women watch 'em, traitors wanna chop 'em
Ayo, what's the problem?
Before the narcs knock 'em, opposite players plot to rob 'em
The ghetto got 'em, my man said it's rough at the bottom
Ghetto alert
Let's do whatever work to get rid of the curse
We went from first to America's worst
On this competitive turf, now let's inherit the Earth
Let's organize for one another and call shots
From twelve o'clock to the next ball drop
All year around 'cause we suffering nonstop
You think it's rough at the bottom, it's even rougher on top
My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me
And everybody's side of the street to be sunny
Ain't nothing funny, burn plenty and burn honeys
And earn money and watch the century turn twenty
We all should
From the woods to the big cities and the small hoods
Everybody should be welcome to ball if y'all could
But we poor 'cause we brawl, yo, it ain't all good
We need to play right, stay tight with your A-alike
Keep your game tight, no need to play trife
Get cheese from daylight to the late night
And it shouldn't take death to appreciate life
Before a lot perish, we got to cherish
If Allah let us get proper merits 'til the block flourish
In this metropolis, stay on top of this
You know what the profit is, we prosperous
Now we networking
Respect the next person, it'll be less hating
Or left lurking while we kept our deaths lurking
Connect set for certain, total net's burking
Last chance to advance and stash grands
If you have plans to have fam in mad land
Own shine, condone crime a whole nine
I know what the problem is, killing our own kind
To my flamethrowers, train sober, remain soldiers
Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us
Tell it to rain rollers and Range Rovers to the train goers
Claim your fame, maintain 'til your game's over
Ghetto alert
Let's do whatever work to get rid of the curse
We went from first to America's worst
On this competitive turf, now let's inherit the Earth
Let's organize for one another and call shots
From twelve o'clock to the next ball drop
All year around 'cause we suffering nonstop
You think it's rough at the bottom, it's even rougher on top
My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me
And everybody's side of the street to be sunny
Ain't nothing funny, burn plenty and burn honeys
And earn money and watch the century turn twenty
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Writer(s): William Griffin, Victor Padilla, Ronald Anthony Lawrence
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