Peace  wassup man?
 Chillin baby
 I'm with you
 Yo.. I wanna know what's goin on
 Ever since that Basic Instruction  Before Leavin Earth
 I wanna know what you gonna do for us right now
 It's been a while baby  we waitin!
 I've just been chillin  been chillin
 I been in the lab writin and stuff y'know?
 I just been on my  y'know  knowhatI'msayin on some
 Guns  shootouts and crack sales
 Black males who pack jails, trapped in hell
 No peace, cold streets, surrounded by po-lice
 this whole week, buildings with no heats
 No lights, the gas pipes the snow leaks
 Dog fights and lowlife throw dice the whole night
 Thieves, creepin
 in the midnight evenings, saw through the misty regions
 Go to your house, take a vial for the demons
 Moon in, the lunar eclipse
 Prophets stand in the midst of the seven candlesticks
 I can't take it, beauty that was once sacred
 is now gettin facelifts, fake tits, and fake lips
 Cold embraces
 Memory erases, from the slaveships
 My princess, I used to spot her from a distance
 Holdin my infant, burnin incense
 The moment intent, for her to step into my wife tents
 Now we step in pre-sents, for your ebony prince
 The small of frankencense; once treated like a pharoah
 With royal apparel, annointed with myrrh and aloe
 We used to wallow, amongst the mallows
 We had herd sheep and cattle, now we battle
 Used to pass over Brooks of Qe'ron
 Towers of Lebanon, the pool of Gechron
 We used to sing songs, upon Mount Hebron
 How is gold turned to bronze, and shhh....
 How is gold turned to bronze
 We was the wisest and the richest, now we turn to snitches
 Women turn to bitches, in the time of harvest
 We was the smarteest, worshipped Wisdom like the Goddess
 Now we act retarded, forsook the Wisdom of the Fathers
 We use to have a thousand flagons of wine
 In Palestine there would drink Ballentine
 And raise up in the violent mind
 We used to have a hundred measures of oil, eighty measures
 of wheat and barley, we live Godly
 Listening to Bob Marley, before the devils robbed me
 Chasin us through the African safaris
 From Then Till Now
 What goes up must come down
 What goes down comes back around again
 Where it all began, began, began, began
 From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now
 (repeat 2X)
 Singin holy anthems, lampin with all
 my handsome grandsons, hair long as Sampson
 Inside my gold mansion, they used to wear purple Pampers
 But now we Black Panthers, some are actors and dancers
 It's funny how the dollar bill have my seeds holler for meals
 Mother swallow a pill, roads seem hollow but still
 grab a bottle to heal, it's like a noose
 of seventh seal over Brownsville
 What's the difference between the ghetto and death row?
 I'm trapped up with cleptos, the tec blow
 I'm left in seft low, where the cries echo
 and echo and echo and echo and echoes
 From the Crystal City, near Getti
 Children used to grow on lillies, now they roll up Phillies
 But the pyramids of Cheops, is my weed spot
 Sometimes I eavesdrop in the books of Enoch
 We went from studying epistles of Paul
 beneath a waterfall, rubbin crystal balls
 But now we spray paint initials on the wall
 On the wall... spray paint initials on the wall
 From Then Till Now
 What goes up must come down
 What goes down comes back around again
 Where it all began, began, began, began
 From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now, From Then Till Now
 (repeat 3X