[00:02.61]Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shit, we can't grow?
[00:06.01]All we are is dope dealers, and gangstas and hoes?
[00:08.24]And you believe when they be tellin you lie, all on the media?
[00:10.93]They make the world look crazy to keep you inside?
[00:12.82]Why you listen when the teachers at school
[00:14.51]know you a young single parent out strugglin, they think you a fool
[00:17.33]Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes
[00:20.00]Killin shorty future, I wonder how do we last it
[00:22.65]Underground in they casket? Ancestors turnin
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[00:25.15]I'm learnin somethin every day, there is no Lazareth
[00:27.76]Words like God is Greek or Latin
[00:29.73]So if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters
[00:32.84]My niggaz is chillin, gettin high, relaxin
[00:35.04]Envisionin, ownin shit, yo it can happen
[00:37.07]What do we own? Not enough land, not enough homes
[00:39.77]Not enough banks, to give a brother a loan
[00:42.61]What do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask
[00:45.90]for reperations, then they hit us with tax
[00:47.64]And insurance if we live to be old, what about now?
[00:50.06]So stop bein controlled, we black zombies
[00:51.84]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
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[00:57.25]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
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[01:02.49]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
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[01:07.38]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
[01:11.10][Nas]
[01:11.97]Aiyyo we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind bars
[01:15.33]We've already gone insane
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[01:16.86]They've already gave up, cut our own heads offs
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[01:19.82]Stab our own backs and dream too much
[01:21.86]without fulfillin reality; too greedy and
[01:24.59]can't have one or two chains, we need three of dem
[01:27.27]Can't have one or two guns without squeezin 'em
[01:29.62]on our own people and, fuck black leaders
[01:32.20]cause whites ain't got none leadin them, the rhythm is cosmic
[01:37.09]Nas is divinity, the deity's prophetless
[01:38.84]All get down and get up
[01:40.25]Victims walkin 'round with Down's Syndrome, all stuck
[01:42.07]Faintin, shoutin, catchin Holy Ghost in church
[01:43.85]Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doin it first
[01:46.72]We begged, we prayed, petitioned and demostrated
[01:48.92]Just to make another generation - black zombies
[01:51.51]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
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[01:56.85]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
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[02:01.68]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
[02:06.58]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
[02:11.76]You scared to be yourself, cause you in a trance
[02:14.18]Feel free, hear the music and dance
[02:15.78]If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, just for you
[02:18.91]Dumb niggaz with long beards like they Arabs or Jews
[02:21.28]or from Israel, (?)bish'meal Allah, el-rachman, el-Rahim (?)
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[02:24.94]Islam's a beautiful thing
[02:26.25]And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to bring
[02:28.58]peace against the darkness, which is unGodly
[02:31.22]So what's the black man's true religion, who should we follow?
[02:34.30]Use your own intuition, you are tommorrow
[02:36.17][roaring] .. that's the sound of the beast
[02:39.20]I'm a Columbia record slave, so get paid
[02:41.07]Control your own destiny, you are a genius
[02:43.59]Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie
[02:47.72]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
[02:51.09]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
[02:56.04]Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies)
[03:01.19]We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies)
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[03:06.61]Wake up! Black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years
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[03:12.27]Ghetto niggaz won't have it no mo', can I get a witness?
[03:15.42]Why listen to somebody else tell you how to do it
[03:17.85]when you can do it yourself; it's all in you, do it, do it
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[03:23.32]Do it niggaz..
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