[Part I]

[Intro: The Last Poets]

Radar, sonar, laser beams

Jets, tanks, submarines

Megathons, H-bombs, napalm, ga—

[Verse 1]

I got the shit you could light with a lighter

Fuck a lighter, I could light on the stove

Dark at night, I'll drop a log on the fire

Wander in the woods out in the cold

I got the shit you could play for your mama

I got the shit you could play for the hoes

I got the shit you could sell to the trappers

In Decatur with the K and the Colt

I know some rappers that—how I'ma say this?

I know some rappers who paid but broke

Lotta money but you played your soul

You played yourself, you played the role

I got some niggas who down the street

Some of my niggas been down the road

Lost a nigga that was down with me

You know what they say, it rains, it pours

[Chorus]

It rains, it pours

(Ooh, we have a penalty flag thrown at the thirty yard line)

(Personal foul, unsportsmanlike conduct, number six on the defense, fifteen) It rains, it pours

It rains, it pours (Look, okay)

[Verse 2]

They got the shit they could pull out

I know it could blow out a back, yeah

They got the cure, it's the vax

Facts, you know where it's at

They put the money, the crack in a sack

They got the axis, they got the Atlas, they got the map

I got a real, real, real bad bitch

I just told her to come to the back (Oh man)

They got the people in office

The crackers that had us in chains

They made the law, they goin' hard

Dang, they even started a gang

How you gon' win at a losable game?

Make a change, man, niggas say the same thing

Every day, complain in the sunshine

Or the cloud rain, but won't lift a finger

End the danger, niggas been endangered

Been indentured, now my niggas got business ventures

With my .9, I'm like ten Avengers

Snap a finger, I could end Avengers

Rapper? Singer? No, killer, nigga

You a copper, you a nigga killer, woah

[Outro]

It rains, it pours

It rains, it pours (Ooh, we have a penalty flag thrown at the thirty-yard line)

(Personal foul, unsportsmanlike conduct)

It rains, it pours

(Number 6 on the defense)

It rains, it pours

[Part II]

[Intro]

Man will understand, man (Oh, shit)

And man will understand, man (Fuck, yeah)

And, man will understand

I live in harmony and peace (Uh)

And the sun will once again rise up in the East (See)

[Verse]

Somebody told me when I was small

That the pride cometh right before the fall

God's son died for us all

So for mine, I'm running through a wall

Lost the battle, it's still a war

I'ma steal the cattle, then burn the farm

We could travel but the journey long

I prefer we get a lil' murder on

Drop a top on your convertible

How we feelin' should concern you

We been speakin' but ain't never been heard

So now we screamin' at you word-for-word

Everything a nigga learned gotta burn

My lil' nigga in a hearse, I was hurtin'

Fuck a rap and fuck a verse, I could blurt

Tryna see how many urns I could earn

Are you entertained or are you concerned?

I'd be afraid, I'd be in church

I'd say a prayer, I pray I say, I say àṣẹ

They play like God, no play-by-play

We take our charge, we take our place

It'll take our hearts, it'll take our faith

But we need a majority to make shit shake

I'ma get me a quarter, I'ma get in a car

And I'ma get on a call and go state-by-state

And I'm picking the target, then I'm picking them off

Better be Beyoncé if you say my name

Orange ambient sunlight and daylight savings might save a nigga life

It ain't never too bright to broad day a nigga

Night time vampires and they'll slay a nigga

Slide like landslides and you can take they slide

I'm a canine, stray in the pack

Lookin' for Jiddy, he stay in the back

Crackin' the whip, whippin' the crack

Just like them crackers had did to the Blacks

Just if they thought I was finished attacking

A beast awoken, I appear like the Kraken

They inferior, in fear when I'm rappin'

But I ain't rappin', this is spiritual

Shed a tear or two'll cure it and miracles happen, huh

Mirror, mirror, why the fuck is you laughing?

Be a dear, let me volunteer 'cause I'm not in fear

I'ma jump in the action (Ooh)

Oh shit, it's getting weird

Nah, shit is weird, where the hell is heaven on this hemisphere?

If them bitches said it, I'ma end it here

If we come together, we could send a message

But I know they never gonna lend an ear

So I got a method, one, do you better

Do you one better

Bet you won't do it, let's bet I will

Collect my stones, ho, collect my gems

Protect my stronghold, respect my shield

Until I'm long gone but while I'm here

I can snap my fingers, they'll disappear (Boom)

[Outro]

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