Waiting For The World To End (Album Version|Explicit) - Rakim

Written by：Chris Martin/William Griffin/Eric Barrier

Yeah it's the god rakim

Word up I'm blazin' this out to all my comrades

Ya na 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 night 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

Shines enormous from pure revered Kool's and garments

But it's torment jealousy ** wars or warring

Tallying slowly turnin' into barbarians

More scary when the whole boulevard's carryin'

Livin' in the world of sin my ghetto girls and men

Waiting 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's up son

You got ambition shorty said man listen

I got demands for livin' can't stand division

Make grands on my mission till everything glisten

Women in the expedition no plans for prison

In a vision the city get 2 milleni G

Sittin' in my MSC sippin' hennesy

Gettin' high and watch life pass me by

So I asked him why

Wit a fast reply he said I'm livin' just to die without any feelings

So I wait here for my maker till it's time to go

Wit this dime I know wit all of her girls and all of my mens

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' a sin of hitmen a sinister grin

From beginning to end in it to win

Evil rebels doin' what we doin' in the ghetto

Thinkin' if we was thorough we can deceive the devil

You can't win your life be 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 ill 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

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 Rakim