A Better Tomorrow (2014)
[Verse 1: Method Man]Wake up, get a hold of your life, go get your cake upThe motto in the streets is you eat, or you get ate upStraight up, you tired of waiting, go get your weight upMy peoples tired of waiting for reparations to pay usScreaming Jesus can save us, I, I get the Bentley if I save upBut that's just another trick to enslave usPush the minimum wagesPut, put our fathers up in them cagesThen watch out when mother struggled to raise usBut, but my ambition won't let me live in this poor conditionThat doesn't care about color, creed, or your religionPriests, politicians gotta listen to oppositionFrom my position, we still ain't got a pot to piss inFrom my position, we still ain't got a pot to piss in
[Verse 2: Masta Killa]Allah said to save the babies from the coldPour wisdom in the cup so the truth overflowsStill, knowledge is that bread that keeps us well-fedOld time religion will not bring us satisfactionWithout action now who can disagree with me?God is not a mystery, there's nowhere in historyThat you could show and prove to meBut still you face east and nod your head to me religiouslyI'm G-O-D, to infinity, for real
[Hook: sample]The world won't get no betterIf we just let it beThe world won't get no betterWe gotta change it yeah, just you and me
[Verse 3: Cappadonna]Poor reparations, the Bush administrationUnequality, martial law, segregationFalse hood, false teaching, false educationNow's the time for us to come amongst this nationThey deceiving us, they don't believe in usThey believe in that Cream like Julius CaesarI'm like Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X with the heatersRipping the chains of the remains of all of the leadersNever worship the image if we were swine eatersI'm on the back of the bus with two fine divasWe in the jungle of life, but never jungle feverI'm God-body all day long, spiritual life lessonsThat I recite with songTrying to wake up everybody, can't we all get along?For all my people that's out there persevering through the stormBlack fist, Staten Island, stand up, stand strongPenetrate through the gate and bring the Clan along
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[Verse 4: Raekwon]Wake up and realise the timesThat we living in the world is getting more iller than everThought we was chillin', striving change for the betterBut it was a dream like Martin LutherHe had a vision that could move a mountainProtect one another, that's world to my brother MalcolmAs-salamu alaykum, alaykum as-salamWe want justice, police supposed to protect and serveAnd then they shoot us down like wild animalsThe nerve of them cold-hearted killersWith blue suits slaying our black youthThe earth cries from all the blood that's being spilledWe need a solution fast, get InshAllah billLet me educate them, translate it meaning God's willIt goes all in together, together how we areTo stand with a plan, provided we down to fallAnd that's the Willie Lynch tactics that separated the massesTaught us all to think backwards