A Better Tomorrow

Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down For all my peoples incarcerated For those who ain't make it Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves Victims of worldly ways, memories stays engraved All my live brothers is locked down with high numbers The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger In this New World Order slaughter men, women and children Ten feet gates surround the building, keep us sealed in The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet Constant war, severe threats of enemy conquest Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble Streets are like a jungle, can't let my cypher crumble Vivid thoughts, devils resort to trick knowledge They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars I know the pain the game bring, I did the same thing Spaced out in the staircase, performin' a sting It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll Tryna reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold Their life and times, deadly like the virus design But too minute to dilute the scientist mind You can't party your life away (drink your life away) Smoke your life away (fuck your life away) Dream your life away (scheme your life away) 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way A voice cries from the wilderness of the North A representation of the families that lost one All victims of incarceration Or other divisions of the family structure Youths are injected with serums that leads to skin irritations Babies being born with disfigurations, experimentations On their faces there bear worry-ations of mothers that carry the pain Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail Fifth brothers been slain from hails of gun fire It lightly begins to rain, screams of terror Are hidden by the passin' trains This can't be little Hussein His uncle cries as he drops to his nephew's side, holdin' his cane Just give me a name of who has inflicted this bitter sickness And left us to witness Yo, curses from war, innocent blood spills for days Soothing godly ways, hands, solemn in praise Tree of life, more precious than rubies, golden game The wise shall flourish inherit, Halls of Fame Crime visions in my blood got me locked in prison While we die, hard-livin' people whine about religion, vision Blow, spin, and sin and killin' what's revealin' It's a never endin' battle with no endin' or beginnin', listen Zero process, progress, become the hunted America's Most Wanted, good life, flaunt it, want it Some love the speed, some satisfy a need Some wanna be down, young gun seed, jungle breed The strong must feed, someone die, someone bleed One flew astray, and it caught my little seed Can it be? The ice savage, trife life, made me grab the knife The righteous man was beat with many stripes, pipes Take in my energy, breathe and know the rest 'Cause the good die young and the hard die best You can't party your life away (drink your life away) Smoke your life away (fuck your life away) Dream your life away (scheme your life away) 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way Y'all bitches love dances and pullin' down your pants While your man's on tour, you're spendin' up his advances Your friends ain't shit, all they do is drink, smoke and suck dick The whole projects is trapped in six You either high school drop-outs, one to three cop-outs 15 years old, shorty ass and top out 99 cent beer drinkin', pussy stinkin' Fuckin' so much, your ass and titties start shrinkin' New World Order slave trade, minimum wage, Medicaid Can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays? Inside my lab, I'm goin' mad Took two drags off the blunts, and started breakin' down the flag The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods The white's for the cops and the stars come from the clubs Or the slugs that ignites through the night, by the dawn early light Why is sons fightin' for the stripe? As we dwell through this concrete hell, callin' it home Mama say, "Take your time, young man and build your own Don't wind up like your old dad Still searchin' for them glory days he never had" So many bad want to scheme for American dream, no more kings The Cash Rule Everythin' now, we goin' down These babies lookin' up to us, it's up to us The Million-Man March MCs get on the bus But envy, greed, lust and hate separate Build the devil mind state, blood kin cannot relate No longer brothers, we unstable Like Cain when he slew Abel, killin' each other You can't party your life away (drink your life away) Smoke your life away (fuck your life away) Dream your life away (scheme your life away) 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way 'Cause your seeds grow up the same way