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[00:01.66]Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what?
[00:04.28]Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what? (Yeah)
[00:06.86]Turn me up, turn me up, turn me up, what? (Yeah, what, yeah, uh)
[00:12.05]Pack your cannons we outlandishly brandish the weapons
[00:14.03]Meet Jamaican like you God (nut, girl) and 'em handin' you lessons
[00:16.64]We learn a lot from the 60's like glaring 13 necks
[00:19.00]Mainly, the niggas get shot for flarin' out their larynx
[00:21.58]And get to speakin' on a conditions of black people
[00:24.04]That's illegal, they enforce it with the force that's lethal
[00:26.79]Make you wanna grab a gun and throw the all black gear on
[00:29.23]Head to congress exercisin' your constitutional right to bear arms
[00:31.88]Leather jackets and glasses and you can tell it's us
[00:34.51]The FBI probably bust a nut if we self destruct (nut, girl)
[00:37.27]Call it militant but ain't nobody killin' Barry
[00:39.65]You can't be militant if you ain't got no military
[00:42.36]But it's still a very powerful word
[00:43.92]Picture some niggas with guns, got 'em very disturbed, word
[00:47.35]Nowadays, you could get shot for a cheap necklace
[00:49.23]Back then my people bust shots for the free breakfast
[00:51.82]Now right -fore you see God, or stand before Allah
[00:56.34]You could learn from the stars that fall out of the sky
[01:01.00]Everybody act hard, like they got no regard
[01:06.20]So we mourn falling stars, they still livin' all hard
[01:11.42]We still here, word
[01:12.62]This is for Medgar Evers, Martin, and my brother Malcom
[01:15.33]Sometimes, we be sittin' and wishin' for another outcome
[01:17.60]My head be spinning, it be full of why's and the how come's
[01:20.38]The value of life is so cheap if your skin ain't talcum
[01:22.77]We need leaders, we lookin' at entertainers
[01:24.55]It's about the cash, so we respect the biggest gainers
[01:27.00]Nigga get paid, then they run away from the community
[01:30.13]That ain't gangsta nigga, you the opposite of Huey P
[01:32.74]Don't be confusin' me with haters, player
[01:34.96]Get your paper, just show respect to the folks who made you (yeah)
[01:37.79]Blessed by the creator so give money, nigga
[01:40.28]Just don't bring a plate of food around a hungry nigga
[01:42.80]Out on these streets the police is killin' (nut, girl)
[01:44.89]I'm spillin' out my heart on these beats so I can feed my children (yeah)
[01:48.06]Disrespect and I'm a give you a bar to save your life
[01:50.24]'Cause we don't need no more fallen stars
[01:52.29]Now right -fore you see God, or stand before Allah (nut, girl)
[01:56.49]You could learn from the stars that fall out of the sky (yeah, c'mon)
[02:01.73]Everybody act hard, like they got no regard (uh-oh, uh-oh, oh)
[02:07.00]So we mourn fallin' stars, they still livin' all hard (we still here)
[02:11.66]We still here, yeah
[02:13.30]Stalk the stage with the pride of the panther
[02:15.67]Hands off Asada and the blood of a dance floor
[02:18.20]Word, rock on, throw the 2Pac on
[02:20.34]He's not gone, you hear his influence in pop songs
[02:23.00]Shine brighter than those Vegas lights
[02:24.81]Illuminatin' that Vegas night to the party after the fight
[02:27.99]'Til the gunshots disturb the peace like Luda
[02:30.51]Too bad, he ain't a white chick in Aruba
[02:32.52]They'd have a whole department dedicated to findin' the killer
[02:34.30]You'd see Afeni Shakur on Larry King, and motherfuckin' Dennis Miller
[02:37.13]Word, Bill O'Reilly would be flapping his gums
[02:40.66]How much respect do they have for my people?
[02:42.50]Actually none
[02:43.52]You either do the nigga packin' a gun who hate niggas
[02:45.62]Even though every time he pass a mirror he staring at one
[02:48.15]My man stressed 'cause of lack of funds
[02:50.02]This the type of shit that make you wanna drown your liver
[02:52.46]And blacken your lungs
[02:52.80]Now right -fore you see God, or stand before Allah
[02:57.09]You could learn from the stars that fall out of the sky (yeah, yeah, c'mon)
[03:02.75]Everybody act hard, like they got no regard (uh-oh, uh-oh, oh)
[03:07.38]So we mourn fallin' stars, they still livin' all hard (we still here)
[03:12.59]Now right -fore you see God, or stand before Allah
[03:17.55]You could learn from the stars that fall out of the sky
[03:22.74]Everybody act hard, like they got no regard (uh-oh, uh-oh, oh)
[03:27.74]So we mourn fallin' stars, they still livin' all hard (we still here)
[03:32.54]We still here, yeah
[03:35.84]- course, this was inspired by 2Pac Shakur (yeah)
[03:40.68]Eazy-E, still here (still here)
[03:44.14]My man Justo (still here)
[03:46.61]Big L (still here)
[03:49.27]Big Pun (still here)
[03:52.72]Yeah, I'm from Brooklyn, you know what I'm sayin'
[03:54.92]Brooklyn know a lot about tragedy
[03:56.44]We lost our Big Poppa and our baby girl
[04:00.16]That was our whole world, yo (still here)
[04:04.77]This is for our fallen stars (nut, girl)
[04:07.79]Inspired by the poets, revolutionaries, and activists
[04:10.88]From the generation before us
[04:12.72]Come and do our thing on this microphone
[04:15.92]When else in the history of this country
[04:18.19]Can a black man get on the microphone (nut, girl)
[04:19.88]And say whatever the hell he wanna say?
[04:22.11]It's a lot of responsibility
[04:25.00]But we standin' on the shoulders of our ancestors
[04:28.86]So I bear that burden, throw it on my back, yeah
[04:38.23](Nut, girl)
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