A Better Tomorrow (feat. Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, U-God, RZA & Method Man)

Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down

For all my peoples incarcerated

For those who ain't make it

Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves

Victims of worldly ways, memories stays engraved

All my live brothers is locked down with high numbers

The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger

In this New World Order slaughter men, women and children

Ten feet gates surround the building, keep us sealed in

The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet

Constant war, severe threats of enemy conquest

Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble

Streets are like a jungle, can't let my cypher crumble

Vivid thoughts, devils resort to trick knowledge

They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars

I know the pain the game bring, I did the same thing

Spaced out in the staircase, performin' a sting

It's hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll

Tryna reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold

Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow

I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels

The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole

Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold

Their life and times, deadly like the virus design

But too minute to dilute the scientist mind

You can't party your life away (drink your life away)

Smoke your life away (fuck your life away)

Dream your life away (scheme your life away)

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

A voice cries from the wilderness of the North

A representation of the families that lost one

All victims of incarceration

Or other divisions of the family structure

Youths are injected with serums that leads to skin irritations

Babies being born with disfigurations, experimentations

On their faces there bear worry-ations of mothers that carry the pain

Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail

Fifth brothers been slain from hails of gun fire

It lightly begins to rain, screams of terror

Are hidden by the passin' trains

This can't be little Hussein

His uncle cries as he drops to his nephew's side, holdin' his cane

Just give me a name of who has inflicted this bitter sickness

And left us to witness

Yo, curses from war, innocent blood spills for days

Soothing godly ways, hands, solemn in praise

Tree of life, more precious than rubies, golden game

The wise shall flourish inherit, Halls of Fame

Crime visions in my blood got me locked in prison

While we die, hard-livin' people whine about religion, vision

Blow, spin, and sin and killin' what's revealin'

It's a never endin' battle with no endin' or beginnin', listen

Zero process, progress, become the hunted

America's Most Wanted, good life, flaunt it, want it

Some love the speed, some satisfy a need

Some wanna be down, young gun seed, jungle breed

The strong must feed, someone die, someone bleed

One flew astray, and it caught my little seed

Can it be? The ice savage, trife life, made me grab the knife

The righteous man was beat with many stripes, pipes

Take in my energy, breathe and know the rest

'Cause the good die young and the hard die best

You can't party your life away (drink your life away)

Smoke your life away (fuck your life away)

Dream your life away (scheme your life away)

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

Y'all bitches love dances and pullin' down your pants

While your man's on tour, you're spendin' up his advances

Your friends ain't shit, all they do is drink, smoke and suck dick

The whole projects is trapped in six

You either high school drop-outs, one to three cop-outs

15 years old, shorty ass and top out

99 cent beer drinkin', pussy stinkin'

Fuckin' so much, your ass and titties start shrinkin'

New World Order slave trade, minimum wage, Medicaid

Can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays?

Inside my lab, I'm goin' mad

Took two drags off the blunts, and started breakin' down the flag

The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods

The white's for the cops and the stars come from the clubs

Or the slugs that ignites through the night, by the dawn early light

Why is sons fightin' for the stripe?

As we dwell through this concrete hell, callin' it home

Mama say, "Take your time, young man and build your own

Don't wind up like your old dad

Still searchin' for them glory days he never had"

So many bad want to scheme for American dream, no more kings

The Cash Rule Everythin' now, we goin' down

These babies lookin' up to us, it's up to us

The Million-Man March MCs get on the bus

But envy, greed, lust and hate separate

Build the devil mind state, blood kin cannot relate

No longer brothers, we unstable

Like Cain when he slew Abel, killin' each other

You can't party your life away (drink your life away)

Smoke your life away (fuck your life away)

Dream your life away (scheme your life away)

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way

'Cause your seeds grow up the same way