"It's Your World". (feat. 'POPS'). [Verse 1]. Night Blows Stoves don't work Hoes at work. A warrior so I wear 'em on my shirt. Wish I was free as Che wasI spend a day buzzed. Trippin on heights wishin for nights in different flavors. The age of Kane and Big Daddyshown by the caddies. Uncles named Larry that never really grabbed me. My mother gave birth but she really never had me. Left to the hood to play daddy. Raised by niggaz named Butch through the bay bay. With waists so they weigh they status on the streets. License plates that say they motto This is Chicago in the hay day. Similiar to Good Times I guess that I was Jay Jay. A skinny nigga young girls with penny figures. So many niggaz stacked upon each other. It's the black upon each other that we love so much. Wonder how many of us these drugs gonna touch. Used to gangbang ain't really thug that much. Rather have some thick broads then the dutch to clutch. Went to school in Baton Rouge for a couple of years. My college career got downed with a couple of beers. Came back home now I gotta pay back loans. Same nigga same block same shit they own. Only thing different quicker they click that chrome. In my defense yo I had to hit that zone. Man to man I'm good workin with my hands. My generation never understood workin for the man. And of bein broke I ain't a fan. Now I stand in the same spot as my old man. My life I planned not to be on this corner. I still wanna see California. But this is my world. [Chorus Repeated Overlapping:]. "It's your world". [Common] Yeah. [Verse 2]. Life and death law around us. Four pounds and pounds a verb from out of towners. It's hard to stay grounded. We stay high thats why old folks down us. Lost nobody found us the force that sorrounds us. Ain't with us they get us on the ground and hit us. We paint pictures of the chains under their names and scriptures. Removed from earth only to return through birth. Knew this girl sellin her body wish she knew what it was worth.. Between God and trash lookin in every car that pass. With a walk that suggests head to milk niggaz she was breastfed. She know dairy so she say cheese to get bread. In the area where it's more weaves and less dreads. Kinda scary amongst thieves and base-heads. Said it was her toes but I could tell her soul hurt. She was cold turk growin up she got to know hurt. very well in a world where self hate is overt. Her step-father that he was ike so her mother he striked. she got to like like minded niggaz who liked crimes and figures. Doin white lines and liquor see hard times had kicked her. In the ass it used to be thicker. Life is fast some choose to be quicker. I remember in high school she had a passion to sing. Now she see herself in a casket in dreams. These are the children of crack and rap blacks done lack. Self-esteem yo we forgot the dream. On our jeffersons y'all but we forgot the theme. In the Chi we even rootin for a garbage team. This queen never seen herself on this Corner. She still wanna see California. But this is her world. [Chorus repeated several times]. [Kids stating their dreams]. ['POPS']. Be be here be there be that be this. Be greatful for life be greatful to life. Be gleeful everyday for bein the best swimmer among 500000. Be-nign be you be mom's mean pie be little black sambo With bad hair. Be aware of what a lynch is Be be boundless energy. Be a four star ghetto general be no one except I. Be a strong academic student be an A student in sociology. Be food for thought to the growin mind be the author of your own horoscope. Be invited be long-living be forgiving be not forgetful. Be a proud run only to return to fight another day. Be peaceful if possible but justice in ways (?). Be high when you low be on time but knowin to go. Be cautious of the road to college takin a detour through vietnam or the middle east. Be absent of wars at any past or present fought amongst themselves. Be visual of foreclosure over your shoulder while beggin. A nation built on free labor for reperation Be a cartopogropher. Be a map maker be able to find afro-american man. search thoroughly it may be close to black man. Be ammended 5/5ths be ammended 5/5ths human. Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wild life. Be cupid to world government. Be found among the truth lost tribe. Be at full strength when walking through the valley. Be not foolish as tender 18 of the mountain tops. Be a brilliant soul sparklin in the galaxy while walkin on earth. Be loved by God as much as God loved Ghandi and Martin Luther King. Be that last one of 144000 be the resident of that twelfth house. Be....eternal!