We keep embellishin upon a new uncharted path
 Expressin what we see and how we comprehend the math
 So there's enough for everyone we gotta make it last
 We gotta make it last..

 [Gift of Gab]
 As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at
 Peace to everyone I know or who I go way back wit
 Every pimp every mack, every gangsta to jack
 Every hustler feedin babies, anybody pro-black
 Every sister raisin kids without the help of a dad
 Wantin for they children all the things that they never had
 All the brothers handlin business even though shit's hard
 Wakin up at five A.M., holdin down three jobs
 All my rasta brethern gettin insight from trees
 To my brothers up in college gettin Ph.D's
 or any other degree, even if you just read
 for mental health, see you're concious that your mind is free
 All my people locked down, for your past mistakes
 Mentally and spiritually, dwellin past the gates
 You could change your ways, elevate today
 To all recovered alcoholics chillin up in AA
 Every black-owned business, keep doin for self
 Helpin out the community and spreadin the wealth
 Understand that help ain't gonna come from nowhere else
 Revolutionaries makin the unjust get dealth wit
 head on black people got to meet the task
 Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!
 And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
 By any means necessary, we'll be free at last

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 [Gift of Gab]
 As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at
 Peace to everybody strivin to live right and exact
 Even though anxieties try to pull you down
 See your troubles as a blessin and you're homeward bound
 Everybody gotta struggle, that's the way of the world


 Can't develop biceps if you don't do curls
 Can't achieve a a garden if you never water your crops
 If you never paid your dues, then you don't get props
 Couldn't eat a proper meal without cookin it first
 Can't receive a paycheck if you don't do work
 If it wasn't for the rain, then the trees won't grow
 When the spring came around, what a sight to bestow
 When you face adversities, dark clouds won't last
 If you never study, how do you expect to pass?
 The grasshoppers laid around while the ants did chores
 When the winter came around, he was left outdoors
 See the cycle keeps moving like a big machine
 Evolution of the mind, soul body and being
 God'll never put upon you more than you can take
 Sometimes you even gotta learn from OTHER people's mistakes
 So head on black people got to meet the task
 Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!
 And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
 By any means necessary, we'll be free at last

 Chorus