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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