[00:00.00]Uplift （高）-Rakim
[00:01.580]Written by ：William Griffin /Victor Padilla /Ron Lawrence
[00:03.167]Levantore
[00:03.908]Yeah it's just ghetto
[00:05.433]Kid test the devil to hit the next level
[00:08.09]Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal
[00:10.603]Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal
[00:13.106]In a thug's paradise where love have a price
[00:15.731]So we love for life like thugs love the night
[00:18.218]They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with bug lights
[00:20.656]Some hug mics to the world hung like parasites
[00:23.442]The likes lethal the mics lead you
[00:25.423]A sneak preview watch what we do
[00:27.322]And what the hood teach you
[00:28.557]I still see through the eye of a needle
[00:30.545]So I can watch people
[00:31.845]'Cause slug backwards is evil
[00:33.948]Levantore
[00:35.373]Yo what's this
[00:36.348]Yo bust this
[00:37.309]Yo it's time to up lift
[00:38.772]They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs
[00:41.284]And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks
[00:43.946]Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks
[00:46.422]Taunt cops with more props and we want not
[00:49.08]Panhandling with your mans and them
[00:51.642]Scrambling gambling plans to win
[00:54.24]While the cops clock 'em thieves flock 'em
[00:56.230]Women watch 'em traders wanna top 'em
[00:57.996]Ay yo what's the problem
[00:59.313]Before the narcs knock 'em
[01:00.378]Opposite playas plot to rob 'em
[01:01.868]The ghetto got 'em
[01:02.764]My man said it's rough at the bottom
[01:04.563]Levantore
[01:06.93]Ghetto alert let's do
[01:07.422]Whatever work to get rid of the curse
[01:09.550]We went from 1st to America's worst
[01:11.961]On this competitive turf
[01:13.178]Now let's inherit the earth
[01:14.761]There's more prize for one another
[01:16.267]And call shots
[01:17.351]12:00'til the next ball drop
[01:19.901]All year around plus they shuffle non stop
[01:22.345]You think it's rough at the bottom
[01:23.656]It's even rougher on top
[01:24.920]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me
[01:27.499]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly
[01:30.69]Ain't nothing funny
[01:31.61]Burn plenty and burn money
[01:32.598]And earn money and watch the century turn 20
[01:35.385]Levantore
[01:36.733]We all should from the woods
[01:38.445]To the big city and the small hood
[01:40.319]Everybody should be welcome
[01:41.691]To the ball if we all could
[01:43.24]But we fall 'cause we brawl
[01:44.274]Yo it ain't all good
[01:45.290]We need to play right
[01:46.274]Stay tight with ya air alight
[01:47.890]Keep your game tight
[01:49.112]No need to play trife
[01:50.600]Get cheese from the daylight to the late night
[01:53.29]And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life
[01:55.209]Before a lot parish
[01:56.363]We got to cherish if Allah let us
[01:58.439]Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish
[02:00.633]In this metropolis stay on top of this
[02:03.133]You know what the prophet is be prosperous
[02:05.988]Levantore
[02:07.420]Now we networking
[02:08.504]Respect the next person
[02:09.715]It'll be less hurting
[02:10.976]Or left lurking while we kept our dreads working
[02:13.589]Connect set for certain total networking
[02:16.279]Last chance to advance and stash grands
[02:18.793]If you have plans to have fam and mad land
[02:21.449]Own shine condone crime or hold 9s
[02:23.650]I know what the problem is killing our own kind
[02:26.429]To my flame throwers train sober remain soldiers
[02:29.354]Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us
[02:31.586]Terror terrain rollers
[02:32.511]And range rovers so the train goers
[02:34.286]Claim your fame maintain till your game's over
[02:36.816]Levantore
[02:38.357]Ghetto alert let's do
[02:39.798]Whatever work to get rid of the curse
[02:41.950]We went from 1st to America's worst
[02:44.214]On this competitive turf
[02:45.359]Now let's inherit the earth
[02:46.808]There's more prize for one another
[02:48.601]And call shots
[02:49.557]12:00'til the next ball drop
[02:52.28]All year around plus they shuffle non stop
[02:54.525]You think it's rough at the bottom
[02:55.902]It's even rougher on top
[02:57.212]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me
[02:59.788]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly
[03:02.371]Ain't nothing funny burn plenty and burn money
[03:04.843]And earn money and watch the century turn 20
[03:07.577]Levantore