Rakim - Waiting For The World To End (Album Version (Explicit))

[00:05.75] Yeah, it's the god Rakim [00:08.60] Word up, I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades [00:12.03] Ya na mean? From the slums of New York [00:18.44] To the gutters all over the world, this is for y'all [00:23.46] Through my travels, I try to take righteous steps [00:25.99] Because right or left could mean life or death [00:28.98] No matter how trife it get, my sights is set [00:31.10] But it's twice the threat when the night is death [00:33.79] My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed [00:36.66] To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows [00:38.94] A deadly plague spreadin' negativity, viciously [00:42.09] Unto every city be in ghetto misery [00:43.89] Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die [00:45.73] But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye [00:49.40] Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments [00:52.16] But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring [00:54.89] Tallying, slowly turnin' into barbarians [00:57.67] More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin' [01:00.39] Livin' in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men [01:03.54] Waiting for the world to end [01:06.50] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [01:11.41] In case you didn't know [01:12.49] Never movin' backwards [01:13.72] Complicated [01:15.03] Know what I mean [01:16.91] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [01:21.53] In case you didn't know [01:22.85] Never movin' backwards [01:24.20] Complicated [01:25.12] Know what I mean [01:26.22] I see destruction, even little kids trust none [01:28.65] They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from [01:30.92] When I see 'em, we build and have a real discussion [01:33.36] "Yo Ra, what's the jewel of the day? What's up, son?" [01:36.50] "You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen [01:38.59] I got demands for livin', can't stand division [01:41.35] Make grands on my mission, till everything glisten [01:43.98] Women in the expedition, no plans for prison [01:46.59] In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G [01:48.95] Sittin' in my MSC sippin' Hennesy [01:51.34] Gettin' high and watch life pass me by [01:54.64] So I asked him," Why?" [01:55.74] Wit a fast reply he said, "I'm livin' just to die without any feelings [01:59.24] So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go [02:02.58] Wit this dime I know, wit all of her girls and all of my mens [02:05.64] Waitin' for the world to end" [02:09.81] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [02:14.17] In case you didn't know [02:15.72] Never movin' backwards [02:17.02] Complicated [02:18.44] Know what I mean [02:19.47] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [02:21.07] In case you didn't know [02:24.79] Never movin' backwards [02:26.68] Complicated [02:27.73] Know what I mean [02:28.72] Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky and never cry [02:31.18] But the streets left him to die, now it's death in his eye [02:34.08] Livin' a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin [02:35.80] From beginning to end, in it to win [02:38.60] Evil rebels, doin' what we doin' in the ghetto [02:41.76] Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil [02:43.73] You can't win, your life be end, try again [02:47.26] Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?" [02:49.32] That's what I said when I realized I had a gift [02:51.55] To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates [02:53.75] Teach the youth and speak the truth [02:58.08] Show 'em what peace can do when ill reach for you [02:59.97] And my reward won't be jewels or cheese, it's even better [03:02.36] I can be one of the greatest MC's ever [03:04.87] If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men [03:10.06] And live, stop waitin' for the world to end [03:12.42] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [03:14.31] In case you didn't know [03:17.65] Never movin' backwards [03:19.24] Complicated [03:20.28] Know what I mean [03:22.65] Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel [03:25.59] In case you didn't know [03:27.82] Never movin' backwards [03:29.48] Complicated [03:30.63] Know what I mean [03:32.48] I'm ragin', rippin' up the stage an' [03:34.25] Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean [03:37.83] Don't it sound amazin', know what I mean [03:43.47] Rakim [03:47.07]