[ti:Itz A Set Up (Explicit)] [ar:Gang Starr/Hannibal] [al:Moment Of Truth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Itz A Set Up (Explicit) - Gang Starr/Hannibal [00:00.13]Written by:Keith Elam [00:00.26]We got news for ya [00:01.60] [00:04.73]We got news for ya [00:06.39] [00:07.00]We got got got got got we got news news for ya [00:11.68]While they devise our demise we grow wise [00:14.54]Upset the set up the element of surprise [00:17.70]It'z a set up [00:18.56] [00:19.38]It's time to upset the set up [00:21.25] [00:22.87]Though they conspire fake us to make us retire [00:25.72]With the burning desire we make it out of the crossfire [00:28.66]Gots are higher elevating and focused [00:31.06]While the path is narrow for those like us [00:33.78]Primo beats provoke us to meditate like Zen [00:36.39]With the will and the strength of a million men [00:39.16]While been introspect where nothing is met [00:41.77]It's been that way for a while so much has come and then went [00:44.51]But I'm confident a few are due to redeem [00:47.10]Their respective kingdoms with an abundance of cream [00:49.80]So if I were to scheme it would be on a realer dream [00:52.68]Like forming effective teams to filter the smokescreens [00:55.35]You toting in jeans don't even know the true envy [00:57.77]The man I'm picking apart and plus they both were friends to me [01:00.77]Past trivial pursuits like east and West coast feuds [01:03.20]Come against me on the mic many and most will lose [01:05.90]Like most dudes I love this hip hop and this rap stuff [01:08.75]But I don't like the shows where the ignorant act up [01:11.53]While some'll be ripping it they be in the crowd wilding [01:14.28]Flipping on kids for the chains and medallions [01:16.81]Or the kid they don't like from a beef from way back [01:19.37]And decide that's the night perfect time for payback [01:22.18]It's wack for the group plus the others who came [01:24.59]To see a fat a** show instead there's bullets aflame [01:27.25] [01:28.55]We grow wise [01:29.64]Upset the set up the element of surprise [01:32.75]It'z a set up [01:33.68] [01:34.50]It's time to upset the set up [01:36.34] [01:38.16]Still waters run deep this is leagues in depth [01:40.71]Quiet as kept they slept we crept [01:42.45] [01:43.03]Society puts the squeeze on mc's like iron grips of death [01:46.10]From here on in peace and blessings long cherish your breath [01:48.80]Gifted and Rhyme U now how we do stay true [01:51.41]Follow through lay down the law cause it's probable and overdue [01:54.45]All systems overdue my guns know me [01:56.85]I only hold a few my ni**a for only a few hold me [01:59.89]Never forget the ones before me my momma told me [02:02.35]Sacrifice for the ones behind me leading the seeds [02:04.83]Blind leads black on black crime to me [02:07.64]Inclined to refine my creed I eat thinking lead [02:10.56]Conceive to make the beast bleed enhance thoughts [02:12.81]Like tossed trees 'cross the Earth three fourths [02:15.03]Let my offspring feed all three corpus delectis cost me [02:18.47]Lost and found on enemy ground quoted although [02:20.99]They don't know how we get down at sound speed we breed [02:23.60]Mo more confined to blind greed and self destructive deeds [02:26.37]Heed my freedom war cry of course I'm N. Y. [02:29.05]Hug my peeps that died the loved ones alive [02:31.72]Reinforce and fly high as I lie so shall I [02:34.75]From New I to Cali next plateau U. N. I. versal [02:38.34]Unleash the black rain [02:39.87]Show em who in control electro magnetic [02:42.77]Pull on the hole ill as toters bang out [02:45.10]Till we sitting on swole the strongest way to grow [02:47.52]The only way I know underground railroad on track [02:50.34]No physical or mental chain can shackle that