A Child Is Born

Lyrics

[Lord Jamar - interpolation of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"] A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too [Verse 1: Sadat X] He grew up in an instant, the fourth of seven children The oldest male on the block was half and half Brown stones to neck bones, crack jonez to tones Where young girls spread out and drop seeds like they're farmers They're old as their momma's, the same age as their aunt And the neighborhood drunk men And that lady with the dreaded disease is like hard to please And the house of ill fate with the metal gate Keep the thin people cracked out like munchkin monks The ole man with the fruit stand is on his man His hand, his ole heart just can't stand The CPR as they load him in the back of a car I'm on a world tour to help free the poor From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store Number runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders Reality check rings as we descend from the king [Grand Puba] Now a child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows.... [Verse 2: Lord Jamar] The home's filled with horror in my horoscope Tomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke I'm twenty dollars away, from bein' dead ass About to spend half, on a bag to get my head blast Last week I lost to justice cypher born And spawned a riff with my wiz Now she dipped with my kids I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway All day everyday tryna get the pay And I be tryin ta find a better way You see, when you're poor then you're forced to endure the raw play Survival be a forte, lookin' forward to arrival of your food stamps Projects' like boot camps Wit generals, cookin' chemical warfare Peace to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years The law bears down, on anybody that's brown My complexion, puts me in the direction of the section 8 Rejection seems to be my fate As a kid, I wanted shit, my momma always used to say I had to wait And it's been drama up to date Enough to traumatize people's lives and the eyes they try to fixate [Sadat X] A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because... [Verse 3: Grand Puba] Born into existence with some resistance A struggle comin' out my ol' earth's womb It was little past noon, three months before June I had a feelin' I was headed toward the land of doom I came out and the doctor got ready to smack I grabbed the 'bilical cord and tried to pull myself back But it was too late for that cos in fact I'll slit the sack so I gotta maintain where I'm at Now I'm here breathin' this diff'rent kind of air Poverty bound, headed for the welfare Drug-infested, rat-infested, people drownin' in sorrow at neighborhood bars Roaches bigger than my hot wheel cars Dope fiends with swollen arms lookin' like rotten wood Turn to crack monsters up and down the neighborhood Liquor store business soar as the crowd pour Or thru the corridors, echoin' off the project walls That's why the Gods say [Lord Jamar] A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on you but He's frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh