Up-Gift of Gab

[00:03.78]Check it out... Gift of Gab... Fourth Dimensional Rocketships, Goin' Up [00:09.16] [00:10.23]To the ink on the paper from the top of the brain [00:12.69]Ghetto youth zone rythms that are louder than pain [00:15.28]From Suedo to Cali it's all the same, people in chains [00:18.10]Where eight year old Children cock it back and take aim [00:20.53]See, just the other day I was catchin' a cab [00:22.96]The driver came from his country to America to grab [00:25.57]A slice of the pie, he said my people haven't seen [00:28.23]The extremeness of hard times, I said "what you mean?" [00:30.95]He said it's people in his country that would love to live [00:33.33]Inside these ghetto's, they live inside of shacks, and the kids [00:36.10]Don't see any kinds of education, boys and girls [00:38.29]Starve and die, and no money when your country is third world [00:41.16]I said "I yearn for change all over the map [00:43.49]From a system deeply rooted in hate, it sets traps [00:46.28]Crack, liquor stores, guns, plus our culture was robbed [00:48.84]And we was sought, self-hated, major belief that God [00:51.46]Was outside, denied free thought, feelin' the pressure [00:54.23]Of the hellish eternity visions of, the oppressor [00:56.76]With the long white beard, lookin' down I keep, hopin' it [00:59.50]'ll change 'til then, please don't expect me to get over it" [01:02.35]Before I bounced out, I said "Peace, love [01:04.39]Ain't no reason why nobody need to suffer in pov- [01:06.84]Erty, while others gettin' richer it's the same old song" [01:09.56]Before I closed the door and bounced I told him "change gon' come" [01:12.04]See I know they don't tell us that we really of Gods [01:14.65]Dwellin' in infinity, through the power of now [01:17.19]I spread the good Karma out, grab a pen a sheet [01:19.77]And empty out my mind, so the ancestors can speak through me [01:22.44]I tweak the beats, rock, eat the beats up [01:25.00]Dwellin' in the Fourth Dimension of spirit I'm Goin' Up [01:27.56]And it can't stop, don't stop, won't stop, ain't gon' stop [01:30.67]Aim for the top, straight blowin' up [01:33.33] [01:34.09]It's like that (That's whassup)