You ain't livin right punk  I'll have to school you  
 Not rule you  but I'll say yo you fool yourself  
 When you try to deny and defy written laws  
 This means your cause has lost  
 Think about it  take the time  and even ponder longer  
 Then let your mind start to wander  
 Go black and track the facts  about all of your mistakes  
 It only takes to one to make fate  
 Pick up your life  clean up your act  and get a legal plan  
 You can, or be an evil man  
 Caught, and then you claim you're not responsible  
 The choice was yours, when the fun's gone you will realize  
 that you don't get somethin for nothin, why you bluffin?  
 Others even brothers are stuffin their pockets  
 with honest cash, they'll laugh, so don't knock it  
 Jock it, cause the Guru must stop it  
 I'll jab you, smack you, crack -- you're demolished  
 You must acknowledge -- life is like a college in itself  
 Get a degree in reality  
 Or you will be upon it like a lawn you'll be walked on  
 Gone, never to see or be the same again  
 Friend, cause the time you spend  
 Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace  
 Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race  
 will have your life in a wreck  
 And homeboy life is cause and effect  
 * Primo scratches *  
 [Guru]  
 Exactly what you put in boy, you will get out of it  
 The energy released comes back, there is no doubt of it  
 So when you thrive to connive and contrive foolish deeds  
 This means you'll bleed from greed  
 Dig the rhyme dig the thought, of what'll happen  
 You're nappin, you're gonna fall off the map 'n'  
 lie out, and cry out, why? You got the short end of the stick  
 Cause you're too quick to run tricks  
 Open your mind, widen your sight, get out of your rut  
 MOVE, and get the lead out of your butt  
 Cause you can't live without a plan to get freshed chump  
 and you shouldn't stand to let  
 anything sway you from the path you know is truthful  
 Chill, cause you know the chosen youth will  
 take over, and control the whole so don't blow it  
 Know it, cause the Guru must show it  
 I'll teach you, reachin each so you're enlightened  
 Emcees are frightened, by what I write in my songs  
 Cause I express what I manifest  
 While some of you fall down to the ground with breakdowns  
 never to see or be the same again  
 Friend, cause the time you spend  
 Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace  
 Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race  
 will have your life in a wreck  
 And homeboy life is cause and effect  
 * Primo scratches *  
 [Guru]  
 You're still playin games lame, I'll have to end you  
 Straight to the gate of fate, so you can claim your doom  
 Will you decay as you pay in repentance  
 I light my sentence like incense  
 Breathe in, expel your fears as you marvel  
 Heed what I feed, you won't starve you'll make it  
 But if you don't, you will be finished  
 You'll dissapear, you will diminish  
 never to see or be the same again  
 Friend, cause the time you spend  
 Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace  
 Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race  
 will leave you bugged and upset  
 Cause homeboy life is cause and effect  
 Cause and effect!!  
 * Primo scratches *  
 [Guru]  
 Once again, Premier and the Guru  
 It's like that