INSPECTAH DECK - Born Survivor lyrics

rate me

Our most induring responsibility to future generations

They say God don't like ugly, blessings are upon us

Bush hated niggas, now the President's a brotha

Whether you in the gutter, or your residence enormous

That shit don't matter when death around the corner

Before your book of life ends, recognize the author

All praise due, things you do bring karma

Your seeds shouldn't eat cause you beefing with baby mama

Will be the one you need when police raid the corners

Ain't nothing but niggas fronting, shitty drugs and drama

Girls who want Prada, women who want powder

Children are more violent, from living with less guidance

And don't learn respect til they bidding with old timers

You walk the same path now they road is wiser

A quiet man's a giant when his code is silence

Speak volume, loud dudes ain't always liver

My city never sleep, I'm a born survivor

No matter how much money we invest in our community

How many ten point plans, we propose

How many government programs we want

None of it will make a difference

Atleast not in our predicament

We also at the same time, don't cease more responsibility in our own life

I slang base and that powder too, team was the wildest crew

I seen what a dollar do

Broke nights fiend for a pot of food

Lean on the block rude, cream got 'em popping tools

And they don't stop to get it, get it

Four shots'll wet your fitted, four cops'll get acquitted

I roll dolo, I don't ask for love

Niggas be acting up, afterwords catching slugs

Every hood got heaters, many generals defeated, heavy metal pop frequent

The world crazy foul, how we suppose raise a child

Face a trial, bail over eighty thou'

In the street life, you game, player?

Haze make the pain clear, eight days the same stare

So mama say a prayer, cause I'm out there

I'm a keep talking til they here

Providing guidance to our children

Turning off the TV sets, putting away the video games

Helping our children with their homework

Teaching our daughters to never allow images on television to tell

What they're worth

Teaching our sons to treat women with respect

That what makes them a man is not the ability to have a child but to raise one

I thought the block was all there was to life

Surfing on the drug sites, meeting up at nights

And I got tired of roaming hall, got wise to protocol

And I got mines with no regard

So all I know, is all I show

So all I see, before I go

That all I am is the truth with this land

And this roof over head, and this root to the futute fruits

Worth more than your Gucci boots

I ain't trashing fashion, I like to do me too

Still I'm guick to pop it off

With the model broad or with the Molotov

Light rocks at your tank, might make me

Take the safety off and pop it in your bank, like

You see me, I'm major

I told this story to a class of 9th graders

They saying 'Fuck school, we some fly gangstas'

I gave 'em something that can change their life later

That's a message we need to send