Killah Priest
Heavy Mental
From Then Till Now
[Killah Priest]
(Peace Killah Priest)
Peace, wassup man?
(I'm chillin baby)
Yo I'm with you
(Yo, I wanna know what's goin on
Ever since that Basic Instruction Before Leavin Earth
I wanna know what you gonna do for us right now
It been a while baby, we waitin!)
I've just been chillin kid, I been chillin
I been in the lab writin and stuff you know? (Aiiight)
I just been on my, you know, I'msayin on some
Guns, shootouts and crack sales
Black males who pack jails, trapped in hell
No peace, cold streets, surrounded by police this whole week
Buildins with no heats
No lights, the gas pipes with slow leaks
Dog fights and lowlife throw dice the whole night
Thieves creepin in the midnight evenins
We saw through the misty regions
Go to your house, take a vial for the demons
Moonlit, the lunar eclipse
Prophets stands in the midst of the seven candlesticks
I can't take it, beauty that was once sacred
Is now gettin facelifts, fake tits and fake lips
Cold embraces, memory erases from the slaveships
My princess, I used to spot her from a distance
Holdin my infant, burnin incense
The moment intent for her to step into my white tents
Now we step in presents, for your ebony prince
The small of frankencense, once treated like a pharoah
With royal apparel, annointed with myrrh and aloes
We used to wallow amongst the mallows
We had herd sheep and cattle, now we battle
Used to pass over books of Qu'ron
Towers of Lebanon, the pool of Gechron
We used to sing songs upon Mount Hebron
How is gold turned to bronze and shhh
How is gold turned to bronze
We was the wisest and the richest, now we turn to snitches
Women turn to bitches, in the time of harvest
We was the smartest, worshipped wisdom like the Goddess
Now we act retarded, we forsook the wisdom of the fathers
We used to have a thousand flagons of wine
In Palestine there we drink Ballentine
And rage up in the violent mind
We used to have a hundred measures of oil
Eighty measures of wheat and barley
We live Godly, listenin to Bob Marley before the devils robbed me
Chasin us through the African safaris
Chorus: (2x)
From then till now, what goes up must come down
What goes down comes back around again
Where it all began, began, began, began
From then till now, from then till now, from then till now
Singin holy anthems, lampin with all my handsome grandsons
Hair long as Sampson inside my gold mansion
They used to wear purple Pampers
But now we Black Panthers
Some are actors and dancers
It's funny how the dollar bill have my seeds holler for meals
Mother swallow a pill, roads seem hollow but still
Grab a bottle to heal
It's like the noose of seventh seal over Brownsville
What's the difference between the ghetto and death row?
I'm trapped up with kleptos, the tech blows
I'm left in seftlo, where the cries echo and echo and echo and echoes
From the crystal city near Gitty
Children used to grow on lillies, now they roll up phillies
But the pyramids of the Cheops is my weed spot
Sometimes I eavesdrop in the books of Enoch
We went from studyin epistles of Paul
Beneath a waterfall rubbin crystal balls
But now we spray paint initials on the wall, on the wall
Spray paint initials on the wall
Chorus (3x)
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