JFK 2 LAX-Gang Starr

[ti:JFK 2 LAX] [ar:Gang Starr] [al:Moment Of Truth] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.27]JFK 2 LAX - Gang Starr [00:00.98]Written by：Keith Elam [00:01.16]Yo [00:01.84]Yo Premier [00:02.59]Yeah whassup G [00:04.78]That trip to L.A. may be delayed [00:07.70]Why whassup I'm on my way to the airport now [00:09.13]Yeah well your boy Guru got knocked [00:10.36] [00:10.98]What [00:12.21]I don't know what this is about sounds crazy man [00:14.92]Something about a gun [00:16.49] [00:23.47]The court calls Keith Elam to the stand [00:25.85]Please approach the bench [00:28.81] [00:37.39]You they got me handcuffed I'm down in central booking [00:41.09]Things are f**ked up the way my future's looking [00:43.71]But I'm too fly I'm change this scenario [00:45.30] [00:46.15]Make some power moves and tighten up my bankroll [00:48.71]Chumps are leary though they see me as a threat [00:51.32]I'm like the black Dutch Schultz [00:52.66]When you get me upset [00:54.16]Five-oh makes me wanna flip Larry Davis style [00:56.65]Got a ni**a depressed while he's awaiting trial [00:59.32]It's OK though cause from grey skies comes blue [01:01.81]Through darkness comes light and I be known as the Guru [01:04.69] [01:05.26]And this I certify we all should be alerted by [01:07.48]The traps within the system our youth is getting murdered by [01:10.41]The D.A. says they got me on a felony [01:12.77]I'm trying to live my life [01:14.16]So what the f**k is you telling me [01:15.82]The streets are war that's [01:17.01]What brothers carry weapons for [01:18.66]And I take the weight as I did before [01:20.95]The next thing you know they got me on the radio [01:23.86]A rapper arrested suckers showing me on video [01:26.53]Of course I know that I'm a role model [01:28.98]But you this rap life is real life sometimes it's full throttle [01:32.04]Right now I gotta think about me f**k the industry [01:34.80]You get no love except those who support me [01:37.40]What's the story what happened when I went to L.A. [01:40.06]Mixing sh*t up no not there I got family [01:42.82]Nothing happened mind your business you step [01:45.44]You know we connect JFK 2 LAX [01:48.01] [01:50.62]They wanna lock us all up and throw away the key [01:53.31]Don't wanna see us come up don't wanna see us making G's [01:56.24]Long as we know this is the key to our destruction [01:59.31] [01:59.86]Let's make moves no discussion [02:01.87] [02:04.20]Peace to my man [02:05.15]Hass and Orange Man paying the cost [02:07.15]All the twenty-five to lifers all my brothers getting tossed [02:09.15] [02:10.17]Into the system supposed to rehabilitate [02:12.82]It's why you gotta regulate your own mindstate [02:15.48]Read study lessons and build your inner power [02:17.91]The next level doesn't tolerate cowards [02:20.37]For example I know this rich Nigerian [02:23.38]Powerful American that's proud to be an African [02:26.43]He asked me why do all us brothers be getting trapped [02:28.96]I told him I'd explain it broke it down in a rap [02:31.55]Whether you got naps braids waves or no hair [02:33.91]Without esteem for yourself ni**a you going nowhere [02:37.49]And you can swagger like you rule this Josey Wales [02:39.91]Unorganized revolt almost always mostly fails [02:42.33]Give up the savage ways be effective soldiers [02:44.87]To elevate the mental is to be poor no more [02:47.68]There's war in the streets prepared men know best [02:50.15]Our rhyme as live as it gets JFK 2 LAX [02:53.15]They're always making trouble you against the righteous [02:55.90]Killing us in cold blood those beats those vipers [02:58.77]And as I sit feeling the pain in my wrist [03:01.17]I vow to myself that I'm change this sh*t [03:03.79]Or at least I gotta try or part of me will die [03:06.66]And only by action will any ideas solidify [03:09.50]So I inhale exhale as I ponder [03:12.15]This grown man will make mistakes no longer [03:14.66]I've been there I've seen how they make us fall victim [03:17.54]To their tricknowledgy with no apology I diss them [03:20.25]And so I rip facts to d**e tracks I caress [03:22.73]You're gonna hear about it from JFK 2 LAX