Fasting

Fasting, which means you deny yourself

Something very natural, which is food

We all need food to live

And food takes you away

Anything that you do in extreme will hurt you

Extreme fasting will kill you

Extreme eating will kill you too

So we have to find the balance

So when God asks the righteous to fast

In a world, this is this

And to deny ourselves what our bodies need

Fasting

Cleansing the mind, the body, and the soul

Out with the old, in with the new, baby

Yeah

You ever been hungry, past a stomach growl

Anything you can taste, yeah, you want it now

Cries with no reply comin' from a child

Dictator of the land, yeah, he runnin' wild

The greed, the need, you'll cause a stampede

If the military shoots and makes a man bleed

Genocide and ethnic cleansing

With a barrel full of lies to throw our sins in

We're goin' straight to Hell, start your engines

Will we ever find the truth? It depends, friend

'Cause people pre-judge, when all we need's love

Watchin' all the wrong things, watch your speed, cuz

'Cause the fast lane is how the cash came

That money gone quicker than you spell your last name

Now you steady cryin', broke, you don't ask, mane

I said, motherfucker, don't ask me

You want an MC, you want a rapper

You want a make-believe artist and an actor

You want a bad chick, see what the cash get?

You get your ass kicked, shot in a casket

You know the fast pitch, usually smash hit

You know the curve make 'em swerve like gymnastics

Some artists paint pictures that are plastic

Always talkin' how they eatin', should have fasted

You win some, you lose some

But if you never took a chance, you never knew, huh?

I made mistakes, I'll make plenty more

Since a kid robbing candy out the penny store

Teenager with a tooly sayin' give me yours

But still, I gotta make it happen like I'm Sidney Shore

And that's a no-no to the homo

Gay slur, just a word, if you don't know

I've been called **** since a young buck

By police frisking me for the gun tucked

Is it my profile? I got a dope style

Got 'em staring all crazy like a lowbrow

Did I commit a crime? Was it felonious?

Just to remain a man is my only wish

You can think the worst, wish me in a hearse

But if you do something, I hope respect is first

You want an MC, you want a rapper

You want a make-believe artist and an actor

You want a bad chick, see what the cash get?

You get your ass kicked, shot in a casket

You know the fast pitch, usually smash hit

You know the curve make 'em swerve like gymnastics

Some artists paint pictures that are plastic

Always talkin' how they eatin', should have fasted

40 days, 40 nights, a phenomenon

The third of the five pillars is the Ramadan

Yom Kippur must start at the light of dawn

Maybe God send signs if we right or wrong

Buddha monks and the nuns follow Vinaya

Chapter 7, verse 5, Zachariah

Give to the poor and all the scarred souls

And during Lent, you repent with the charcoal

So many different days for the Hindu

So make sure there's no meat on the menu

No violence, no hate is what I send you

Purify all the evil that us men do

Hunger strike protest if you got a cause

Many lives have been taken, yeah, it's at a cost

Medicinal, therapeutic

I know a few who abstain from hearin' music

You want it faster

You want an MC, you want a rapper

You want a make-believe artist and an actor

You want a bad chick, see what the cash get?

You get your ass kicked, shot in a casket

You know the fast pitch, usually smash hit

You know the curve make 'em swerve like gymnastics

Some artists paint pictures that are plastic

Always talkin' how they eatin', should have fasted