It goes: life, difficult times, and mad crimes
  Some pay the price, while others refine
  Blessed are those who struggle -- God loves you
  And Wisdom is the principle thing for Kings and Queens
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  Many alliance will end, it's like a sad song
  from a violin, trapped like Daniel's in the Lion's Den
  Tryin to pie-rce the iron skin, of Leviathan
  Souls blowin in the violent winds
  God help us, if we die in sign, I hear the trials
  in the cries of men, that's when the riot begins
  Like things never get better, we forever
  servin Ebekenezer, since the days of our ancestors
  Slaves to a mad pleasure, building great architectures
  Sharp dressers, smart professors
  Start my lecture, I build lyrics like a art director
  Show it to you like the film projector
  Blessed are those who struggle, from day to day we all hustle
  Comin home with sore muscles, and scarred faces
  Scuffed knuckles, we all share the same trouble
  Seperated couples, sometimes it seem like
  there's no escapin, the clutches of Satan
  Spendin years in state pens, awaitin patient
  Dreams of a scholarship, ended by a hollowtip
  Politics and number slip
  
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  Once, shoved in ships, now we Bloods and Crips
  Thugs with clips, niggaz who love the clicks
  Hit the clubs and shit, so they can rub their hips
  Hugs and flicks, niggaz with drugs and whips
  Cash Rules this Rotten Apple, they got a worm in it
  Corrupt sinners, in my man's jeep
  with the windows tinted, sippin Guinness
  Observin all the clinics, and liquor spots
  They make me lick a shot through the rooftop
  I never seen the glory
  In the ghetto it's the same story
  Ciggarette butts and cold coffee, black faces
  and white mouths, they cry out, for the White House
  Ain't no wealth shared, it's welfare
  and poor health care, self scared
  It's senseless, the way they got our black princess
  on public assistance to end our existance
  
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  It's a blessing... to struggle
  It's a blessing...
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  Yeahhyeahhh, it's a blessing, just a blessing
  It's a blessing... *fades*