Released on June 13, 2003

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[Intro: Bless]

[*Scratching*]

Afu-Ra, your boy Bless, A Sun from the Monks, ma-man, listen


[Pre-Chorus: Bless]

All my life struggling, we survive hustling, still nobody do it like we do

Sun, Afu and Bless the hill Hebrew, ain't gon' stop, hustling to the top (To the top)

Strugglin', still nobody do it like we do (Follow me now)

Perverted monks, Platinumberg with ethos


[Verse 1: Bless]

This is history, pull your camera out I'm tryna do a hundred thou' for every hour I'm out

See first I double my power and triple my clout

Flick it up for the sauce with a arrogant smile

Stay clockin' them dollars, stay poppin' my collar

Where trhe sweat soothes the pride, I'm droppin' that knowledge

Now walk with the lavish, don't even talk all that wild shit

I size spit and kill anything that my eyes hit, speech bananas

Reach tapes, leak the baggage, the boardroom don't get it

The street understand this industry's frantic

Major labels start to panic, call accountant

And sell up to fight natural blandness

Heard it all, heard it all, but I ain't seen it yet

Y'all scared of The Movement, I know, I can see your sweat

I'm sure it's certain to yourself, I don't need a bet

Give me sixteen, I swear to God I'ma leave 'em wet

And I don't need to tech my dreams to be the best

Give me one mic after that, my whole team is set

That don't make me more 'cause you get less cheddar

I just happen to be blessed and express myself better


[Chorus: Bless]

All my life struggling, we survive hustling, still nobody do it like we do

Sun, Afu and Bless the hill Hebrew, ain't gon' stop, hustling to the top (To the top)

Strugglin', still nobody do it like we do

Perverted monks, Platinumberg with ethos


[Verse 2: A Sun]

Oh, blast you off the pale horse and the beats inside of me

I get down and dirty like fuckin' somody

I couldn't lie to me, ironically

Shared thoughts with the monks and spread out like I was leprosy

Antivirus used my body after sellin' a vessel

I came through to do what? I kill you lyrically

We on top of our game

We got the cross, our T's and doctor, ours the same

We all in the same gang, royal blood stain

Connect the dots in the mic just like a chain gang

Astrophysical, lyrical with the spiritual

Gases, chemicals, literal with the rituals

A Sun, bless the tractors like a ritual

And like false holy water, cleanse the citadel

I swim through a vortex so I can bring it through

The chosen one in the mic, look how I'm hittin' you


[Chorus: Bless]

All my life struggling, we survive hustling, still nobody do it like we do

Sun, Afu and Bless the hill Hebrew, ain't gon' stop, hustling to the top (To the top)

Strugglin', still nobody do it like we do

Perverted monks, Platinumberg with ethos


[Verse 3: Afu-Ra]

Uhm yowh, I'm not promised tomorrow, but I promise today

I'mma lead this mic smokin' like a forest blaze

Paid? No, not me, son, well at least not yet

Still strugglin' like a newborn for its first breath

Death looked me in the eye, saw my mother ascent

Life took me by surprise, smack, livin' a debt

Now, who do I own for this life I live?

Slip myself a twenty, 'cause it was all I had on me

I pay my dues, and if it was you, you get it

But it's my life, my love, my struggles, man, I live it

I learn from the essence, learn from the presence

Of the next man, when y'all related, I overstand

Banned soon to be from TV, radio

Or any commercial, net worth, they say: "he gotta go, oh"

'Cause of those Jews I spit, RIP through the bullshit

Quick, perverted, monk shit, what?


[Chorus: Bless]

All my life struggling, we survive hustling, still nobody do it like we do

Sun, Afu and Bless the hill Hebrew, ain't gon' stop, hustling to the top (To the top)

Strugglin', still nobody do it like we do

Perverted monks, Platinumberg with ethos

[Outro Rah Digga, Nas & M.O.P.]


[*Scratching*]

I-I decompose a-a-a-any rap-rap-rapper to the bone

I'm a leader at last, this a don you with

I-I decompose, a-a-a-any rap-rap-rapper to the bone

My kind, on the front line still, still, still, still

Standin', standin', standin', standin'