| As lightning strikes and thunder pounds,
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| Over the grey skies of East London town,
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| Prophecy K returns from the underground,
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| Signified by the peoples crying, trumpet sounds,
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| Yeah the system it tried to shut me down,
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| But I been on my ting before Onyx was flinging guns around,
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| Blood, sweat, and tears for years,
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| It feels like my careers been in the dumping ground,
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| Yeah this is how hunger sounds,
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| And I’m the hunter now, 'Lash the lion-heart,
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| A.k.a. |
| the man behind the iron mask
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| For ten years straight I been raising the iron bar,
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| Tryna' breathe the life back into this dying art,
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| So why try and part, when you’ll meet the same fate as that lion Scar,
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| This game’s fake, full of two-faced, lie in grass
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| Who will sell their soul and ass just to climb the charts,
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| Yeah, but me I put in too much time in the graft,
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| Refining my craft for labels to sign me for a minor advance,
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| Picture K’lash miming on Trance,
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| Now picture Dr. Dre beats/'lash, rhyming with stars,
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| It’s all fate and I got mine in my grasp,
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| Their all snakes, let them die in the past,
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| But who knows what the future holds,
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| These N.W.O. |
| soldiers will probably shoot me cold,
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| All because the truth was told,
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| You should know I did it from the heart.
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| I’m still here, pushing after several years,
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| I’m still here, standing strong, never in fear,
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| I’ll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
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| I’ll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears,
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| I don’t do this for the happy ravers, or the aggie haters,
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| I do this for the warriors and the gladiators,
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| I do this for those whose lives you never cared about,
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| Can’t pronounce their names, their origins, or their whereabouts,
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| Those brought up around tragedy and sadness,
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| Who adjusted and found normality in the madness,
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| Fight the power, till I’m out of breathe like Malcolm X,
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| You empower the powerful, I empower the powerless,
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| They’ll play you on the radio if you rap about a Gucci belt,
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| But rap about the government, you might aswell shoot yourself,
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| Industry fairies, say I rap about conspiracy theories,
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| Just to hide the fact they lyrically fear me,
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| Got the eye of a tiger, the heart of a lion,
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| The mind of a lifer, my stance is defiant,
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| I rise like a phoenix immediate from the ashes,
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| My existence is inconvenient for the masses,
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| Though we are equal I despise an imitation,
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| I live for my people, and die for liberation,
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| I stand as a visionary; |
| someone got plans of killing me,
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| To literally vanish me physically like Aborigines,
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| Hannibal with the mask, and an animal with the bars,
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| I’m grappling with my shackles; |
| I channel it through my art,
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| Feel it in the ambience; |
| Ch&ion: Heavyweight
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| My life is nothing but my pride is something you could never take,
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| Think I’m illusive?, or think I’m a nuisance?
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| I swear these major labels must think that I’m stupid,
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| Keep your 360's your convincing these dudes with,
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| Like I’ll give you the blueprint for pimping my music,.
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| I say that like K’Lash, he’s another lion,
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| Every hardship from getting scarred to my brother dying,
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| Spit all of it with or without a big audience,
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| Through the Blood, Sweat &Tears I stand victorious!
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| I’m still here, pushing after several years,
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| I’m still here, standing strong, never in fear,
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| I’ll be still here after the dust settles and clears,
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| I’ll be still here after the blood, sweat and the tears, |