"We got news for ya"   > scratched by DJ Premier  
 Chorus: Guru and Hannibal  
 [Guru] While they devise our demise  we grow wise  
 [Hann] Upset the set up  the element of surprise  
 [both] IT'Z A SET UP  
 [Guru] It's time to upset the set up  
 Verse One: Guru  
 Though they conspire  fake us to make us retire  
 With the burning desire we make it out of the crossfire  
 Thoughts are higher  elevating and focused  
 while the path is narrow, for those like us  
 Primo beats provoke us to meditate like Zen  
 With the will and the strength, of a million men  
 While they introspect, where nothing is met  
 It's been that way for a while so much has come and then went  
 But I'm confident, a few, are due to redeem  
 their respective kingdoms, with an abundance of cream  
 So if I were to scheme, it would be on a realer dream  
 Like formin effective teams to filter the smokescreens  
 You totin in jeans, don't even know the true envy  
 The man I'm pickin apart, and plus they both were friends to me  
 Past trivial pursuits like East and West coast feuds  
 Come against me on the mic, many and most will lose  
 Like most dudes, I love this hip-hop, and this rap stuff  
 But I don't like the shows, where the ignorant act up  
 While some'll be rippin it, they be in the crowd wildin  
 Flippin on kids, for the chains and medallions  
 Or the kid they don't like, from a beef from way back  
 And decide that's the night, perfect time for payback  
 It's wack for the group, plus the others who came  
 to see a fat ass show, instead there's bullets aflame  
 Chorus  
 Verse Two: Hannibal  
 Still waters run deep this is leagues in depth  
 Quiet as kept they slept we crept  
 Society puts the squeeze on MC's like iron grips of death  
 From here on in peace and blessings long cherish your breath  
 Gifted and Rhyme U now how we do, stay true  
 Follow through lay down the law, cause it's probable and overdue  
 All systems overdue, my guns know me  
 I only hold a few my nigga for only a few hold me  
 Never forget the ones before me, my momma told me  
 sacrifice for the ones behind me leadin the seeds  
 Blind leads, black on black, crime to me  
 Inclined to refine my creed I eat thinkin lead  
 Conceive to make the beast bleed, enhance thoughts  
 like tossed trees 'cross the Earth three-fourths  
 Let my offspring feed all three, corpus delectis cost me  
 Lost and found on enemy ground, quoted although  
 they don't know how we get down at sound speed we breed  
 Mo more confined to blind greed and self destructive deeds  
 Heed my freedom war cry, of course I'm N.Y.  
 Hug my peeps that died, the loved ones alive  
 Reinforce and fly high as I lie so shall I  
 from New I to Cali next plateau U.N.I.versal  
 Unleash the black rain  
 Show em who in control, electro-magnetic  
 pull on the hole, ill as toters bang out  
 Til we sittin on swole the strongest way to grow  
 The only way I know, Underground Railroad on track  
 No physical or mental chain can shackle that  
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