DJ Premier - Waiting For the World to End lyrics

[Intro] Yeah, it's the god Rakim Word up, I'm blazin this out to all my comrades Yanamean? From the slums of New York, to the gutters all over the world This is for y'all.... [Verse 1] Through my travels I try to take righteous steps Because right or left could mean life or d**h No matter how trife it get, my sights is set But it's twice the threat when the nights is d**h My mental windows refuse to close, they get exposed To the neighborhood info where the poison wind blows A deadly plague spreadin' negativity, viciously Unto every city be in ghetto misery Don't let it get to me, the writer be left to die But it get mesmerize if it catch your eye Shines enormous, from pure revered Kool's and garments But it's torment, jealousy drug wars or warring Tallying, slowly turnin' into barbarians More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin' Livin' in the world of sin, my ghetto girls and men Waiting for the world to end [Hook] "Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel" "In case you didn't know" "Never movin' backwards" "Complicated" "Know what I mean?" [Verse 2] I see destruction, even little kids trust none They bust guns, that's what they get a rush from When I see 'em, we build and have a real discussion "Yo Ra, what's the j**el of the day?" "What up, son" "You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man listen "I got demands for livin, can't stand division "Make grands on my mission, 'til everything glisten "Women in the Expedition, no plans for prison "In a vision the city get, 2 milleni G "Sittin' in my emba**y, sippin' Hennesy "Gettin' high, and watch life pa** me by" So I asked him why, with a fast reply He said "I'm livin just to die without any feelings So I wait here for my Maker till it's time to go With this dime I know, with all of her girls and all of my men Waiting for the world to end" [Hook] "Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel" "In case you didn't know" "Never movin' backwards" "Complicated" "Know what I mean?" [Verse 3] Shorty was taught to keep his head to the sky, and never cry But the streets left him to die, now it's d**h in his eye Livin' a sin of hitmen, a sinister grin From the beginning to end, in it to win Evil rebels, doin' what we doin' in the ghetto Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil You can't win, your life be end, try again Shorty said, "Why we born again to die again?" That's what I said when I realized I had a gift To uplift and be one of Allah's advocates Teach the youth and speak the truth Show 'em what peace can do when they'll reach for you And my reward won't be j**els or cheese, it's even better I can be one of the greatest MC's ever If I tell 'em they intelligent women and great men And live, stop waitin' for the world to end [Hook] "Tryin to paint a perfect picture and excel" "In case you didn't know" "Never movin' backwards" "Complicated" "Know what I mean?" "I'm ragin, rippin up the stage an' Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?" "Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?" "Rakim"