Rakim
Rakim - Up Lift lyrics
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(1st verse) Levantore! Yeahit's just ghettokid test the devil to hit the next level Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal Inflex the bezzle with the peddle 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 bug lights Some hug mics to the worldhung like parasites The likes lethalthe mics lead you A sneak previewwatch what we do and what the hood teach you I still see through the eye of a needle So I can watch people cause slug backwards is evil (2nd verse) Levantore! Yowhat's this? yo bust this. yo it's time to up lift They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks Flont rocks like fort knox and hog blocks Taunt cops with more props and we want not Panhandling with your mans and them Scramblinggamblingplans to win While the cops clock emthieves flock em Women watch emtraders wanna top em Ay yo what's the problem Before the narcs knock em opposite playas plot to rob em The ghetto got emmy man said it's rough at the bottom (3rd verse) Levantore! Ghetto alertlet's do whatever work to get rid of the curse We went from 1st to america's worst On this competitive turfnow let's inherit the earth There's more prize for one anotherand call shots 12:00 til the next ball drop All year around plus they shuffle non stop You think it's rough at the bottomit's even rougher on top My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me And everybody's side of the street'll be celly Ain't nothing funnyburn plenty and burn money And earn money and watch the century turn 20 (4th verse) Levantore! We all shouldfrom the woods to the big city and the small hood Everybody should be welcome to the ball if we all could But we fall cause we brawlyo it ain't all good We need to play rightstay tight with ya air alight Keep your game tightno need to play trife Get cheese from the daylight to the late night And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life Before a lot parishwe got to cherish if allah let us Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish In this metropolisstay on top of this You know what the prophet isbe prosperous (5th verse) Levantore! Now we networking Respect the next personit'll be less hurting Or left lurkinwhile we kept our dreads working Connect set for certaintotal networking Last chance to advance and stash grands If you have plans to have fam and mad land Own shinecondone crime or hold 9s I know what the problem iskilling our own kind To my flame throwerstrain soberremain soldiers Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us Terror terrain rollers and range rovers so the train goers Claim your famemaintaintill your game's over (6th verse) Levantore! Ghetto alertlet's do whatever work to get rid of the curse We went from 1st to america's worst On this competitive turfnow let's inherit the earth There's more prize for one anotherand call shots 12:00 til the next ball drop All year around plus they shuffle non stop You think it's rough at the bottomit's even rougher on top My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me And everybody's side of the street'll be celly Ain't nothing funnyburn plenty and burn money And earn money and watch the century turn 20 Levantore!