Rakim - Up Lift lyrics
(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!
