Unto the Dust - Ka.mp3

[00:00.135] And the meaning of Cain, is possession
[00:05.287] Ya know I was thinkin' the other day like
[00:08.670] I wonder why none of my people just dyin' of natural causes
[00:12.898] Just passing away, you know what I'm sayin'?
[00:15.077] You know what I'm sayin', none of my people ever passed away
[00:19.618] Had to man up, another man down
[00:23.274] At the least we stand fast, never stand down
[00:26.987] My tool's fire move quiet, but the plan sound
[00:30.650] Born headfirst in that damned land, I want that damn crown
[00:34.115] The boys in blue clothes got new holds, new submissions
[00:37.731] I give the grey youth straight truth, no euphemisms
[00:41.433] Y'all played the dozens, my favorite cousins spent they youth in prisons
[00:44.858] They names known, came home, now the house got two religions
[00:48.725] Peace be with you, wa alaikum salaam
[00:52.413] Make sure that piece be with you, laced to your palm
[00:55.862] No one here's linear, danger 'round every bend
[00:59.134] On a path for power, when half a dollar was hated by many men
[01:03.159] Street live, we die, we don't pass away
[01:07.778] Take any task if you got cash to pay
[01:10.479] On this earth, brave known to earn
[01:14.418] Birth to gravestone to urn
[01:17.122] Descended from battered slaves, barricades only aggravate us
[01:21.586] Friends and foe dyin', no lyin', grew up fightin' gladiators
[01:25.066] Whoever left son soakin', it's unspoken; you gotta see 'em
[01:28.674] We don't do a rest 'til the death, rules of the coliseum
[01:32.283] For those concerned, I learned from jailbirds
[01:36.139] Not from no frail curbs, over here the crack sales surged
[01:39.873] Our engine bingin' for years, black males purged
[01:42.633] Want progress, now digest b****ts, inhale words
[01:46.726] On this earth, brave known to earn
[01:51.805] (Gravestone to urn)
[01:54.060] Before semis air, shot plenty fairs 'fore I shot a gun
[01:57.857] My heroes taught take zero shorts, of course I'm not the one
[02:01.363] Mommy preached peace, but in grief I’ma poppa's son
[02:04.937] Marshal the land that's never ran, man, even when the coppers come (Even when the coppers come)
[02:12.225] Problem's we at the bottom, that's where all the tops is slung
[02:16.090] Hate the pull, but in beef, take no bull, only ox is brung
[02:19.417] They blessed me with twenty FD, pray I don't have a toxic lung
[02:23.049] I'm from the seventies, men in Lees had us boxin' young
[02:26.834] I don't leverage hate, I educate, you better ask around
[02:30.713] I'm taskin' babes passin' grades, what you passin' down?
[02:38.042] Street live, we die, we don't pass away
[02:42.409] Take any task if you got cash to pay
[02:45.218] On this earth, brave known to earn
[02:48.805] From birth to gravestone to urn, word
[02:52.542] On this earth, brave known to earn (Yeah)
[02:59.573] On this earth brave known to earn
[03:04.866] Gravestone to urn