Making Progress

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We keep embellishing upon the new unchartered path

Expressing what we see and how we comprehend the math

So there's enough for everyone we gotta make it last

We gotta make it last

As I embark on life's journey from the point where im at

Piece to everyone I know and who I go way back with

Every pimp, every mack

Every gangstar, the Jack

Every hustler feeding babies

Anybody pro-black

Every sister raising kids without the help of a dad

Wanting for they're children all the things that they never had

All the brothers handling businesses, I know shit's hard

Wakin up at 5 a.m. holding down 3 jobs

All my Rasta bretheren getting insight from trees

To my brothers up in college getting PHD's

Or any other degree

Even if you just reading for mental health

Feed your conscious so that your mind is free

All my people locked down for your past mistakes

Mentally and spiritually dwelling past the gates

You can change your ways

Elevate today

To all recovered alcoholics chillin up in AA

Every black-owned business keep doin for self

Helpin out the community and spreadin the wealth

Understanding help aint gonna come from nowhere else

Revolutionary's fakin me and just get dealt

With head on black people got to lead the task

Educate keep learnin', got to question, ask

And let your light keep shinin and remember the past

By any means necessary you'll be free at least

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As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at

Peace to everybody strivin to live right and exact

Even though anxieties try to pull you down

See your troubles as a blessing and you're homeward bound

Everybody gotta struggle, that's the way of the world

Can't develop biceps if you don't do curls

Can't achieve a garden if you never water your crops

If you never pay your dues then you don't get props

Can't eat a proper meal without cooking it first

Can't receive a paycheck if you don't do work

If it wasn't for the rain then the trees won't grow

When the spring came 'round what a site to bestow

When you face adversities, dark cloud won't last

If you never study how do you expect to pass?

The grasshoppers laid around while the ants did chores

When the winter came around he was left outdoors

See the cycle keeps moving like a big machine

Evolution of the mind, soul, body and being

God'll never put up on you more than you can take

Sometimes you even gotta learn from other people's mistakes

With head on black people got to lead the task

Educate keep learnin', got to question, ask

And let your light keep shinin and remember the past

By any meeans necessary you'll be free at least

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