Rakim Message In The Song lyrics

Message In The Song by Rakim

Ya'll know what my purpose is
I spit verses that lift curses off my dead president 
worshipers
Back where the surface is gangsters and murderers
Making money made us merciless
It's the birth of the streets it's over they said
Rappers crossed over they dead
I spit my verse with technique till they know when they 
ledge
First to compete then I'm over their heads
He too lyrical and too subliminal
Every day from spiritual too criminal
It's a message in the bottle open it
It's a lesson in survival cope with it
It don't make sense to die for the root of evil
It get too cerebral when that don't seem lethal
Either way is hell I can't save the world
But I can show them how to save themselves
From the

Evil things that people do sometimes legal dreams that 
we pursue sometime we don't think that we can lose 
sometimes
Call it - it's the root of evil we the proof some times 
it's a plea from me to u

I seen through the eyes of the prophets
King tutankhamun
And martins and malcolms
And elijah mohameds
Wise with knowledge
Paid in full interest aside in the pockets
Just rise with the topics
Rise economics I show you that time is more valuable 
than them diamonds in your watches
U grind where the block is you die for those dollars
Plus work for them too u know right where wallet is