Rakim - Waiting for the World to End lyrics

Yeah it's the God Rakim
Word up
I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades
Ya know I mean? From the slums of New York
To the gutters all over the world
This is for y'all

Through my travels
I try to take righteous steps
Because right or left could
Mean life or death
No matter how trife it get, my sights is set
But, it's twice the threat when
The nights is death
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
Shine's enormous, from jewellery
Vehicles and garments
But, it's torment, jealousy
Drug wars or warrents
Tallyin', slowly turnin' into barbarians
More scary when the
Whole boulevard's carryin'
Livin' in the world of sin
My ghetto girls and men
Waitin' for the world to end

"Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel"
"In case you didn't know"
"Never movin' backwards" "Complicated"
"Know what I mean?"
"Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel"
"In case you didn't know"
"Never movin' backwards" "Complicated"
"Know what I mean?"

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 jewel 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 everythin' glisten
Women in the Expedition, no plans for prison
In a vision the city get, two milleni, G
Sittin' in my embassy, sippin' Hennesy
Gettin' high, and watch life pass 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
'til it's time to go with this dime I know
With all of her girls and all of my men
Waitin' for the world to end"

"Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel"
"In case you didn't know"
"Never movin' backwards" "Complicated"
"Know what I mean?"
"Tryin' to paint a perfect picture and excel"
"In case you didn't know"
"Never movin' backwards" "Complicated"

Shorty was taught to keep his
Head to the sky, and never cry
But the streets left him to die
Now it's death in his eye
Livin' in sin'll give men a sinister grin
From the beginnin' to end, in it to win
Evil rebels, doin' what we do in the ghetto
Thinkin' if we was thorough we
Could deceive the devil
You can't win, your life'll 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 jewels 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

"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"