MC SHAN - Go for Yours ('Cause I'm Gonna Get Mine) lyrics

I myself I'm called a hood because I walk with a limp

Would you believe they even call my boy a hip-hop pimp?

Like Dr. King I had a dream, I couldn't sleep too long

If I had to stand alone, I'd still be strong

Men are all equal, we're the Father's creation

What used to be the distand land is now my nation

How long will it be, how many suckers must die?

There's only one answer to the question why

My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine

You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine

Unalikes attract and a-alikes repel

And if you buy dead dreams I got plenty to sell

All the money in the world couldn't buy my knowledge

My teacher was experience, the streets was college

It's a shame that many had to learn this way

So I never take the word of what the next man say

Head-a-arm-arm-a-leg-a-leg-a

Supreme High Being, Sole Controller, not a beggar

My true manifestation of Shan

I never fell, I held my destiny within my hand

On the day that I was born I received strike one

Because my culture was an Asiatic native son

My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine

You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine

My foundation is strong, so I had to destroy

Do y'all remember Cheetah, that was Tarzan's boy

My main motto is self-satisfaction

Life's a movie with no cuts, all straight up action

If you roll as a sucker, then a sucker you die

And six feet up above you is the heavenly sky

I haven't heard of any comin back to tell

Dyin must be heaven, cause livin is hell

You sit around and wait for your wish to be granted

And the next thing you know you're being buried and planted

Your body is the temple, the brain is the center

A door to explore, but you're scared to enter

Mind means many in either direction

And the dictionary listed in the poverty section

You're nothin but a novel on a bookstore shelf

And see the title of mine reads 'Went for Self'

My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine

You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine

You say you're sick and tired of bein rejected

And you think you do better bein crime-connected

Just for example let's say that you're twenty

Got a Benz, fly girls and doo-doo money

Moms ask: "Where you get it?" What you gonna tell her?

You dropped out of school, became a drug seller

You say you knew what you were doin, you say you were smart

Next week they beat you down and bust a cap in your heart

Your knowledge is the sun, you better let it shine

No matter what you do with yours, I'ma teach mine