[ti:Uplift] [ar:Rakim] [al:The Master] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Uplift (Album Version|Explicit) - Rakim [00:01.58]Written by:William Griffin/Victor Padilla/Ron Lawrence [00:03.16]Levantore [00:03.90]Yeah it's just ghetto [00:05.43]Kid test the devil to hit the next level [00:08.00]Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal [00:10.60]Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal [00:13.10]In a thug's paradise where love have a price [00:15.73]So we love for life like thugs love the night [00:18.21]They sell *** for ice for the Benz with bug lights [00:20.65]Some hug mics to the world hung like parasites [00:23.44]The likes lethal the mics lead you [00:25.42]A sneak preview watch what we do [00:27.32]And what the hood teach you [00:28.55]I still see through the eye of a needle [00:30.54]So I can watch people [00:31.84]'Cause slug backwards is evil [00:33.94]Levantore [00:35.37]Yo what's this [00:36.34]Yo bust this [00:37.30]Yo it's time to up lift [00:38.77]They think all we do is bust clips and puff splifs [00:41.28]And plush whips and clutch chips and touch chicks [00:43.94]Flont rocks like Fort Knox and hog blocks [00:46.42]Taunt cops with more props and we want not [00:49.00]Panhandling with your mans and them [00:51.64]Scrambling gambling plans to win [00:54.02]While the cops clock 'em thieves flock 'em [00:56.23]Women watch 'em traders wanna top 'em [00:57.99]Ay yo what's the problem [00:59.31]Before the narcs knock 'em [01:00.37]Opposite playas plot to rob 'em [01:01.86]The ghetto got 'em [01:02.76]My man said it's rough at the bottom [01:04.56]Levantore [01:06.09]Ghetto alert let's do [01:07.42]Whatever work to get rid of the curse [01:09.55]We went from 1st to America's worst [01:11.96]On this competitive turf [01:13.17]Now let's inherit the earth [01:14.76]There's more prize for one another [01:16.26]And call shots [01:17.35]12:00 'til the next ball drop [01:19.90]All year around plus they shuffle non stop [01:22.34]You think it's rough at the bottom [01:23.65]It's even rougher on top [01:24.92]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me [01:27.49]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly [01:30.06]Ain't nothing funny [01:31.06]Burn plenty and burn money [01:32.59]And earn money and watch the century turn 20 [01:35.38]Levantore [01:36.73]We all should from the woods [01:38.44]To the big city and the small hood [01:40.31]Everybody should be welcome [01:41.69]To the ball if we all could [01:43.02]But we fall 'cause we brawl [01:44.27]Yo it ain't all good [01:45.29]We need to play right [01:46.27]Stay tight with ya air alight [01:47.89]Keep your game tight [01:49.11]No need to play trife [01:50.60]Get cheese from the daylight to the late night [01:53.02]And it's shouldn't take death to appreciate life [01:55.20]Before a lot parish [01:56.36]We got to cherish if Allah let us [01:58.43]Let's give prop and merits till the block flourish [02:00.63]In this metropolis stay on top of this [02:03.13]You know what the prophet is be prosperous [02:05.98]Levantore [02:07.42]Now we networking [02:08.50]Respect the next person [02:09.71]It'll be less hurting [02:10.97]Or left lurking while we kept our dreads working [02:13.58]Connect set for certain total networking [02:16.27]Last chance to advance and stash grands [02:18.79]If you have plans to have fam and mad land [02:21.44]Own shine condone crime or hold 9s [02:23.65]I know what the problem is killing our own kind [02:26.42]To my flame throwers train sober remain soldiers [02:29.35]Stay sane so these pretty dames can hold us [02:31.58]Terror terrain rollers [02:32.51]And range rovers so the train goers [02:34.28]Claim your fame maintain till your game's over [02:36.81]Levantore [02:38.35]Ghetto alert let's do [02:39.79]Whatever work to get rid of the curse [02:41.95]We went from 1st to America's worst [02:44.21]On this competitive turf [02:45.35]Now let's inherit the earth [02:46.80]There's more prize for one another [02:48.60]And call shots [02:49.55]12: 00 'til the next ball drop [02:52.02]All year around plus they shuffle non stop [02:54.52]You think it's rough at the bottom [02:55.90]It's even rougher on top [02:57.21]My peeps gonna have to reach and turn for me [02:59.78]And everybody's side of the street'll be celly [03:02.37]Ain't nothing funny burn plenty and burn money [03:04.84]And earn money and watch the century turn 20 [03:07.57]Levantore