Stand Tall-The O'Jays

[00:02.00]Ice Cube - Stand Tall [00:08.00] [00:21.52]Stand tall, live your life to the limit [00:24.45]Cause haterism seem like a fucking epidemic [00:27.00]And look at Ice Cube, I ain't no gimmick [00:29.52]I'm straight from the hood, I got to represent it [00:32.27]Now - every day I think about my color [00:34.92]And all the crazy shit we do to one another [00:37.49]I ain't your blood brother, but I'm your cuz brother [00:40.38]Let's take it back to the love and how it was brother [00:42.93]If not, we gon' pull these triggers [00:45.50]Show the world we deserve to be called niggaz [00:48.01]I make a fuck-up, like Don Imus [00:50.64]bow on his knees, and call me yo' highness [00:53.26]You can too, you got the power to [00:56.19]Don't let this motherfuckin system devour you [00:58.64]I won't pretend, or act like I'm knowin you [01:01.64]But check it out I understand what you goin through [01:03.99]But remember, brothers and sisters [01:07.78]You can still, stand, tall [01:13.00]Just be thankful... [01:18.31]For what you got [01:21.37]I know what y'all motherfuckers thinking, heh heh [01:24.31]Here comes another rapper with a song about hope [01:27.75]All you wanna hear is a song about dope [01:30.17]And how a nigga got mo' money than the Pope [01:32.84]But he'll never tell you when he drop the soap [01:35.43]No~! Ice Cube is here to drop you a note [01:38.11]Cause some of our folk used to hang from ropes [01:40.74]And some of our people used to hang from trees [01:43.38]Now the only thing hangin muh'fucker is DEEZ [01:46.10]So, get your mind right, and I'ma rhyme right [01:48.93]Fuck the limelight, and a blind dyke [01:51.68]I'm the sunlight, too bright to look [01:54.27]When it's all said and done I should write the book [01:56.74]You too cool for school, too old to know? [01:59.25]Get your ass off the grassroots and let 'em grow [02:02.13]I understand, it ain't no love lost [02:04.65]But little kids, it ain't no Santa Claus [02:07.51]But remember, brothers and sisters [02:11.27]You can still, stand, tall [02:16.47]Just be thankful... [02:21.08]For what you got [02:27.81]I was born in the mud but I came out clean [02:30.76]That's 'til the government tried to intervene [02:33.38]Tried to lock me up when I was only 19 [02:36.19]Don't never ever ever let 'em kill your dream [02:38.79]I make shit raw that piss off the law [02:41.35]If you want some fake shit turn this off [02:44.02]If you want some realness I know you can feel this [02:46.77]Maybe we can heal this just like an illness [02:49.27]Black on black, I got'cho back [02:52.01]People don't think that we know how to act [02:54.54]Just because our neighborhood is filled with crack [02:57.27]And the CIA, won't take it back [02:59.50]Never on top, always on the bottom [03:02.64]Never put your trust in Hillary Rodham [03:05.15]Cause I can tell you now it's gon' turn out rotten [03:07.82]Keep on pushin, get 'em 'til we got 'em [03:10.56]But remember, brothers and sisters [03:14.62]You can still, stand, tall [03:20.22]Just be thankful... [03:25.03]For what you got [03:30.79] [03:34.35]Raise your hand if you sick of this bullshit [03:37.89]Heh, in the belly of the evil empire fades