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the house of ill fate with the metal gate\nKeep the thin people cracked out like munchkin monks\nThe ole man with the fruit stand is on his man\nHis hand, his ole heart just can't stand\nthe CPR as they load him in the back of a car\nI'm on a world tour to help free the poor\n>From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store\nNumber runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders\nReality check rings as we descend from the king\n\n(Grand Puba)\nNow a child is born with no state of mind\nBlind to the ways of mankind\nGod is smiling on you but He's frowning too\nBecause only God knows what you'll go through\nA child is born with no state of mind\nBlind to the ways of mankind\nGod is smiling on you but He's frowning too\nBecause only God knows...\n\n(Lord Jamar)\nThe home's filled with horror in my horoscope\nTomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke\nI'm twenty dollars away from bein dead ass\nI'm bout to spend half on a bag to get my head blast\nLast week I lost to justice 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you but He's frowning too\nBecause only God knows what you'll go through, uhh\nA child is born with no state of mind\nBlind to the ways of mankind\nGod is smiling on you but He's frowning too\nBecause only God knows what you'll go through, uhh","syncedLyrics":"[00:02.90]A child is born with no state of mind\n[00:05.65]Blind to the ways of mankind\n[00:08.22]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too\n[00:10.87]Because only God knows what you'll go through\n[00:21.21]He grew up in an instant, the fourth of seven children\n[00:25.16]The oldest male on the block that's half and half\n[00:27.68]Brown stones and neck bones, crack jones with tones\n[00:30.39]Where young girls spread out and drop seeds like they farmers\n[00:33.47]They old as they mommas, the same age as they aunt\n[00:35.90]And the neighborhood drunk man\n[00:37.83]And that lady with the dreaded disease is like hard to please\n[00:41.31]And the house of ill fate with the metal gate\n[00:43.71]Keep the thin people cracked 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Last week I lost to justice cypher born\n  and spawned a riff with my wiz\n  now she dead with my kids\n  I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway\n  All day everyday tryin to get the pay\n  And I be tryin ta find a better way\n  You see, when you're poor then you're forced to adore to raw play\n  Survival be a forte, lookin forward to-a robble up your food stamps\n  Projects' like boot camps\n  wit generals cookin chemical warfare\n  Ki's to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years\n  The law bears down on anybody that's brown\n  My complexion puts me in the direction of the section 8\n  Rejection seems to be my fate\n  As a kid, don't wanna ship my momma, always said I had to wait\n  And it's been drama up to date\n  Enough to traumatise people's lives and the eyes they try to fixate\n\n  (Sadat X)\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows what you'll go through\n  A 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farmers\n  They're old as their momma's, the same age as their aunt\n  and the neighbourhood drunk men\n  and that lady with the dreaded disease is like hard to please\n  And the house of ill fate with the metal gate\n  Keep the thin people cracked out like munchkin monks\n  The ole man with the fruit stand is on his man\n  His hand, his ole heart just can't stand\n  the CPR as they load him in the back of a car\n  I'm on a world tour to help free the poor\n  >From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store\n  Number runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders\n  Reality check rings as we descend from the king\n\n  (Grand Puba)\n  Now a child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows what you'll go through\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows...\n\n  (Lord Jamar)\n  The home's filled with horror in my horoscope\n  Tomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke\n  I'm twenty dollars away from bein dead ass\n  I'm bout to spend half on a bag to get my head blast\n  Last week I lost to justice cypher born\n  and spawned a riff with my wiz\n  now she dead with my kids\n  I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway\n  All day everyday tryin to get the pay\n  And I be tryin ta find a better way\n  You see, when you're poor then you're forced to adore to raw play\n  Survival be a forte, lookin forward to-a robble up your food stamps\n  Projects' like boot camps\n  wit generals cookin chemical warfare\n  Ki's to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years\n  The law bears down on anybody that's brown\n  My complexion puts me in the direction of the section 8\n  Rejection seems to be my fate\n  As a kid, don't wanna ship my momma, always said I had to wait\n  And it's been drama up to date\n  Enough to traumatise people's lives and the eyes they try to fixate\n\n  (Sadat X)\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows what you'll go through\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because...\n\n  (Grand Puba)\n  Born into existance with some resistance\n  A struggle comin out my ol' earth's womb\n  It was little past noon, three months before June\n  I had a feelin I was headed toward the land of doom\n  I came out and the doctor got ready to smack\n  I grabbed the 'bilical cord and tried to pull myself back\n  but it was too late for that cos in fact\n  I'll slit the sack so I gotta maintain where I'm at\n  Now I'm here breathin this diff'rent kind of air\n  Poverty bound, headed for the welfare\n  Drug-infested, rat-infested, people drownin in sorrow at neighbourhood bars\n  Roaches bigger than my hot wheel cars\n  Dope fiends with swollen arms lookin like rotten wood\n  turn to crack monsters up and down the neighbourhood\n  Liquor store business soar as the crowd pour\n  or thru the corridors, echoin off the project walls\n  That's why the Gods say\n\n  (Lord Jamar)\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh\n  A child is born with no state of mind\n  Blind to the ways of mankind\n  God is smiling on you but He's frowning too\n  Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh\n"}]