作词 : Barrier, Griffin, Martin
Yeah it's the god rakim

Word up I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades

Ya na mean from the slums of New York

To the gutters all over the world this is for y'all

Through my travels I try to take righteous steps
Because right or left could mean life or death
No matter how trife it get my sights is set
But it's twice the threat when the night is death
My mental windows refuse to close they get exposed
To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows
A deadly plague spreadin' negativity viciously
Unto every city be in ghetto misery
Don't let it get to me the writer be left to die
But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye
Shines enormous from pure revered Kool's and garments
But it's torment jealousy drug wars or warring
Tallying slowly turnin' into barbarians
More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin'
Livin' in the world of sin my ghetto girls and men
Waiting for the world to end

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know
Never movin' backwards
Complicated
Know what I mean

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know
Never movin' backwards
Complicated

Know what I mean
I see destruction even little kids trust none
They bust guns that's what they get a rush from
When I see 'em we build and have a real discussion
Yo Ra what's the jewel of the day what's up son
You got ambition shorty said man listen
I got demands for livin' can't stand division
Make grands on my mission till everything glisten
Women in the expedition no plans for prison
In a vision the city get 2 milleni G
Sittin' in my MSC sippin' hennesy
Gettin' high and watch life pass me by
So I asked him why
Wit a fast reply he said I'm livin' just to die without any feelings
So I wait here for my maker till it's time to go
Wit this dime I know wit all of her girls and all of my mens
Waitin' for the world to end

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know
Never movin' backwards
Complicated
Know what I mean

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know

Never movin' backwards
Complicated

Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky and never cry
But the streets left him to die now it's death in his eye
Livin' a sin of hitmen a sinister grin
From beginning to end in it to win
Evil rebels doin' what we doin' in the ghetto
Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil
You can't win your life be end try again
Shorty said why we born again to die again
That's what I said when I realized I had a gift
To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates
Teach the youth and speak the truth
Show 'em what peace can do when ill reach for you
And my reward won't be jewels or cheese it's even better
I can be one of the greatest MC's ever
If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men
And live stop waitin' for the world to end

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know

Never movin' backwards

Complicated
Know what I mean

Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel

In case you didn't know
Never movin' backwards
Complicated
Know what I mean
I'm ragin' rippin' up the stage an'
Don't it sound amazin' know what I mean

Don't it sound amazin' know what I mean

Rakim Rakim