Rakim - Waiting For The World To End (Album Version (Explicit))(1999)

[00:05.75] Yeah, it's the god Rakim
[00:08.60] Word up, I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades
[00:12.03] Ya na mean? From the slums of New York
[00:18.44] To the gutters all over the world, this is for y'all
[00:23.46] Through my travels, I try to take righteous steps
[00:25.99] Because right or left could mean life or death
[00:28.98] No matter how trife it get, my sights is set
[00:31.10] But it's twice the threat when the night is death
[00:33.79] My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed
[00:36.66] To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows
[00:38.94] A deadly plague spreadin' negativity, viciously
[00:42.09] Unto every city be in ghetto misery
[00:43.89] Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die
[00:45.73] But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye
[00:49.40] Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments
[00:52.16] But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring
[00:54.89] Tallying, slowly turnin' into barbarians
[00:57.67] More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin'
[01:00.39] Livin' in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men
[01:03.54] Waiting for the world to end
[01:06.50] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[01:11.41] In case you didn't know
[01:12.49] Never movin' backwards
[01:13.72] Complicated
[01:15.03] Know what I mean
[01:16.91] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[01:21.53] In case you didn't know
[01:22.85] Never movin' backwards
[01:24.20] Complicated
[01:25.12] Know what I mean
[01:26.22] I see destruction, even little kids trust none
[01:28.65] They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from
[01:30.92] When I see 'em, we build and have a real discussion
[01:33.36] "Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the day? What's up, son?"
[01:36.50] "You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen
[01:38.59] I got demands for livin', can't stand division
[01:41.35] Make grands on my mission, till everything glisten
[01:43.98] Women in the expedition, no plans for prison
[01:46.59] In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G
[01:48.95] Sittin' in my MSC sippin' Hennesy
[01:51.34] Gettin' high and watch life pass me by
[01:54.64] So I asked him," Why?"
[01:55.74] Wit a fast reply he said, "I'm livin' just to die without any feelings
[01:59.24] So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go
[02:02.58] Wit this dime I know, wit all of her girls and all of my mens
[02:05.64] Waitin' for the world to end"
[02:09.81] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[02:14.17] In case you didn't know
[02:15.72] Never movin' backwards
[02:17.02] Complicated
[02:18.44] Know what I mean
[02:19.47] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[02:21.07] In case you didn't know
[02:24.79] Never movin' backwards
[02:26.68] Complicated
[02:27.73] Know what I mean
[02:28.72] Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky and never cry
[02:31.18] But the streets left him to die, now it's death in his eye
[02:34.08] Livin' a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin
[02:35.80] From beginning to end, in it to win
[02:38.60] Evil rebels, doin' what we doin' in the ghetto
[02:41.76] Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
[02:43.73] You can't win, your life be end, try again
[02:47.26] Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?"
[02:49.32] That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
[02:51.55] To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates
[02:53.75] Teach the youth and speak the truth
[02:58.08] Show 'em what peace can do when ill reach for you
[02:59.97] And my reward won't be jewels or cheese, it's even better
[03:02.36] I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
[03:04.87] If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men
[03:10.06] And live, stop waitin' for the world to end
[03:12.42] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[03:14.31] In case you didn't know
[03:17.65] Never movin' backwards
[03:19.24] Complicated
[03:20.28] Know what I mean
[03:22.65] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel
[03:25.59] In case you didn't know
[03:27.82] Never movin' backwards
[03:29.48] Complicated
[03:30.63] Know what I mean
[03:32.48] I'm ragin', rippin' up the stage an'
[03:34.25] Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean
[03:37.83] Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean
[03:43.47] Rakim
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