Go For Yours ('Cause I'm Gonna Get Mine)

I myself I'm called a hood because I walk with a limp Would you believe they even call my boy a hip-hop pimp? Like Dr. King I had a dream, I couldn't sleep too long If I had to stand alone, I'd still be strong Men are all equal, we're the Father's creation What used to be the distand land is now my nation How long will it be, how many suckers must die? There's only one answer to the question why My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine Unalikes attract and a-alikes repel And if you buy dead dreams I got plenty to sell All the money in the world couldn't buy my knowledge My teacher was experience, the streets was college It's a shame that many had to learn this way So I never take the word of what the next man say Head-a-arm-arm-a-leg-a-leg-a Supreme High Being, Sole Controller, not a beggar My true manifestation of Shan I never fell, I held my destiny within my hand On the day that I was born I received strike one Because my culture was an Asiatic native son My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine My foundation is strong, so I had to destroy Do y'all remember Cheetah, that was Tarzan's boy My main motto is self-satisfaction Life's a movie with no cuts, all straight up action If you roll as a sucker, then a sucker you die And six feet up above you is the heavenly sky I haven't heard of any comin back to tell Dyin must be heaven, cause livin is hell You sit around and wait for your wish to be granted And the next thing you know you're being buried and planted Your body is the temple, the brain is the center A door to explore, but you're scared to enter Mind means many in need of direction And the dictionary listed in the poverty section You're nothin but a novel on a bookstore shelf And see the title of mine reads 'Went for Self' My knowledge is the sun and it will always shine You better go for yours, cause I'ma get mine You say you're sick and tired of bein rejected And you think you do better bein crime-connected Just for example let's say that you're twenty Got a Benz, fly girls and doo-doo money Moms ask: "Where you get it?" What you gonna tell her? You dropped out of school, became a drug seller You say you knew what you were doin, you say you were smart Next week they beat you down and bust a cap in your heart Your knowledge is the sun, you better let it shine No matter what you do with yours, I'ma teach mine