It Takes A Nation-Ice Cube

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[00:00.67]There are seven known wonders of the world
[00:04.06]You about to witness the eighth muthaf**ka
[00:07.19]Ice Cube - It Takes A Nation
[00:17.26]I got King Kong in my trunk
[00:18.98]King Kong in my doors
[00:20.73]My nuts play ping-pong from the noise;
[00:23.13]You can hear me from a block away
[00:25.02]Im sitting next to your a** and cant hear what you got to say
[00:28.52]My sh*t is loud my ears is ringing
[00:30.71]My paint job is wet
[00:32.21]My chrome is gleaming
[00:33.60]I feel like a vet ballin' on these rookies
[00:36.42]An old-school bully you must have played hooky
[00:39.11]I bring it like a bookie
[00:40.33]My aggression is depressing
[00:41.99]Don't give a muthaf**ka time to learn his lesson
[00:44.43]A lunatic y'all know what I represent
[00:47.61]The only rapper that wanna fist-fight the president
[00:52.52]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[00:57.86]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[01:03.29]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[01:08.63]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[01:11.90]When I bang this its dangerous
[01:13.21]Niggas go brainless
[01:14.52]So bang this with the four-five stainless
[01:17.55]And understand that you looking at the famous
[01:20.23]West-coast rapper who act like an anus
[01:23.12]Hollywood they thought they could tame this
[01:25.61]Pit-bull but I know what the game is
[01:28.14]Them f**kers cheat like an NBA ref
[01:30.63]If you smoke one
[01:31.56]They'll electrocute you to death
[01:33.37]I got god on my intellect
[01:35.06]Godzilla by the neck
[01:36.38]When the ni**a come through who you wanna holla at
[01:39.14]Ghostwriters hit the deck
[01:40.46]When ya boi got a tech
[01:41.92]Where the f**k is Africa-Bamabata at
[01:44.49]We need to take it back f**k Viacom
[01:47.21]Clear Clear Channel and Radio One
[01:49.89]You muthaf**kas programmed by the programmers
[01:52.68]That's why you getting locked up by the d**e slammers
[01:54.88]Not me
[01:57.95]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[02:03.25]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[02:08.58]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[02:14.11]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[02:17.51]They music so fluffy Im'a stay gutter
[02:19.51]That sh*t is kinda popcorn my sh*t is so butter
[02:22.64]My style never change in 22 summers
[02:25.36]Straight independent and doing my numbers
[02:28.07]This sh*t don't sell you know Im still paid
[02:30.89]So sour-puss niggas can drink lemonade
[02:33.57]Im doin it for the love
[02:35.01]You doing it because
[02:36.19]You need that advancement to spend on them dubs
[02:39.06]I don't need a penny but I need many
[02:41.63]Don't worry bout ma money boi cause I got plenty
[02:44.41]You muthaf**kas worry bout flossing so much
[02:46.98]You don't know the fundamentals you forgot how to brush
[02:49.91]These thirty-two teeth
[02:51.28]Will give your a** grief
[02:52.68]Bite you like a fat burger if you got beef
[02:55.30]So whose it gonna be your favourite MC
[02:57.95]Your scared of the government they scared of me
[03:00.69]Now what
[03:03.39]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[03:08.68]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[03:14.06]It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back
[03:19.71]It takes a nation of niggas and streets of crack