Uplift

Uplift (Album Version|Explicit) - Rakim

Written by：William Griffin/Victor Padilla/Ron Lawrence

Levantore

Yeah it's just ghetto

Kid test the devil to hit the next level

Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal

Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal

In a thug's paradise where love have a price

So we love for life like thugs love the night

They sell *** for ice for the Benz with bug lights

Some hug mics to the world hung like parasites

The likes lethal the mics lead you

A sneak preview watch what we do

And what the hood teach you

I still see through the eye of a needle

So I can watch people

'Cause slug backwards is evil

Levantore

Yo what's this

Yo bust this

Yo it's time to up lift

They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs

And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks

Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks

Taunt cops with more props and we want not

Panhandling with your mans and them

Scrambling gambling plans to win

While the cops clock 'em thieves flock 'em

Women watch 'em traders wanna top 'em

Ay yo what's the problem

Before the narcs knock 'em

Opposite playas plot to rob 'em

The ghetto got 'em

My man said it's rough at the bottom

Levantore

Ghetto alert let's do

Whatever work to get rid of the curse

We went from 1st to America's worst

On this competitive turf

Now let's inherit the earth

There's more prize for one another

And call shots

12:00 'til the next ball drop

All year around plus they shuffle non stop

You think it's rough at the bottom

It's even rougher on top

My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me

And everybody's side of the street'll be celly

Ain't nothing funny

Burn plenty and burn money

And earn money and watch the century turn 20

Levantore

We all should from the woods

To the big city and the small hood

Everybody should be welcome

To the ball if we all could

But we fall 'cause we brawl

Yo it ain't all good

We need to play right

Stay tight with ya air alight