Uplift-Rakim

[00:00.00]Uplift （高）-Rakim [00:01.580]Written by ：William Griffin /Victor Padilla /Ron Lawrence [00:03.167]Levantore [00:03.908]Yeah it's just ghetto [00:05.433]Kid test the devil to hit the next level [00:08.09]Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal [00:10.603]Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal [00:13.106]In a thug's paradise where love have a price [00:15.731]So we love for life like thugs love the night [00:18.218]They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with bug lights [00:20.656]Some hug mics to the world hung like parasites [00:23.442]The likes lethal the mics lead you [00:25.423]A sneak preview watch what we do [00:27.322]And what the hood teach you [00:28.557]I still see through the eye of a needle [00:30.545]So I can watch people [00:31.845]'Cause slug backwards is evil [00:33.948]Levantore [00:35.373]Yo what's this [00:36.348]Yo bust this [00:37.309]Yo it's time to up lift [00:38.772]They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs [00:41.284]And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks [00:43.946]Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks [00:46.422]Taunt cops with more props and we want not [00:49.08]Panhandling with your mans and them [00:51.642]Scrambling gambling plans to win [00:54.24]While the cops clock 'em thieves flock 'em [00:56.230]Women watch 'em traders wanna top 'em [00:57.996]Ay yo what's the problem [00:59.313]Before the narcs knock 'em [01:00.378]Opposite playas plot to rob 'em [01:01.868]The ghetto got 'em [01:02.764]My man said it's rough at the bottom [01:04.563]Levantore [01:06.93]Ghetto alert let's do [01:07.422]Whatever work to get rid of the curse [01:09.550]We went from 1st to America's worst [01:11.961]On this competitive turf [01:13.178]Now let's inherit the earth [01:14.761]There's more prize for one another [01:16.267]And call shots [01:17.351]12:00'til the next ball drop [01:19.901]All year around plus they shuffle non stop [01:22.345]You think it's rough at the bottom [01:23.656]It's even rougher on top [01:24.920]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me [01:27.499]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly [01:30.69]Ain't nothing funny [01:31.61]Burn plenty and burn money [01:32.598]And earn money and watch the century turn 20 [01:35.385]Levantore [01:36.733]We all should from the woods [01:38.445]To the big city and the small hood [01:40.319]Everybody should be welcome [01:41.691]To the ball if we all could [01:43.24]But we fall 'cause we brawl [01:44.274]Yo it ain't all good [01:45.290]We need to play right [01:46.274]Stay tight with ya air alight [01:47.890]Keep your game tight [01:49.112]No need to play trife [01:50.600]Get cheese from the daylight to the late night [01:53.29]And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life [01:55.209]Before a lot parish [01:56.363]We got to cherish if Allah let us [01:58.439]Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish [02:00.633]In this metropolis stay on top of this [02:03.133]You know what the prophet is be prosperous [02:05.988]Levantore [02:07.420]Now we networking [02:08.504]Respect the next person [02:09.715]It'll be less hurting [02:10.976]Or left lurking while we kept our dreads working [02:13.589]Connect set for certain total networking [02:16.279]Last chance to advance and stash grands [02:18.793]If you have plans to have fam and mad land [02:21.449]Own shine condone crime or hold 9s [02:23.650]I know what the problem is killing our own kind [02:26.429]To my flame throwers train sober remain soldiers [02:29.354]Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us [02:31.586]Terror terrain rollers [02:32.511]And range rovers so the train goers [02:34.286]Claim your fame maintain till your game's over [02:36.816]Levantore [02:38.357]Ghetto alert let's do [02:39.798]Whatever work to get rid of the curse [02:41.950]We went from 1st to America's worst [02:44.214]On this competitive turf [02:45.359]Now let's inherit the earth [02:46.808]There's more prize for one another [02:48.601]And call shots [02:49.557]12:00'til the next ball drop [02:52.28]All year around plus they shuffle non stop [02:54.525]You think it's rough at the bottom [02:55.902]It's even rougher on top [02:57.212]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me [02:59.788]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly [03:02.371]Ain't nothing funny burn plenty and burn money [03:04.843]And earn money and watch the century turn 20 [03:07.577]Levantore