Black Zombie Lyrics - The Lost Tapes - Nas

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[Nas] 

Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shit, we can't grow? 

All we are is dope dealers, and gangstas and hoes? 

And you believe when they be tellin you lie, all on the media? 

They make the world look crazy to keep you inside? 

Why you listen when the teachers at school 

know you a young single parent out strugglin, they think you a fool 

Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes 

Killin shorty future, I wonder how do we last it 

Underground in they casket? Ancestors turnin 

I'm learnin somethin every day, there is no Lazareth 

Words like God is Greek or Latin 

So if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters 

My niggaz is chillin, gettin high, relaxin 

Envisionin, ownin shit, yo it can happen 

What do we own? Not enough land, not enough homes 

Not enough banks, to give a brother a loan 

What do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask 

for reperations, then they hit us with tax 

And insurance if we live to be old, what about now? 

So stop bein controlled, we black zombies 

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[Chorus: (sung)] 

Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) 

We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) 

Walkin talkin dead, though we think we're livin (black zombies) 

We just copy-cat, followin the system (black zombies) 

[Nas] 

Aiyyo we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind bars 

We've already gone insane 

They've already gave up, cut our own heads offs 

Stab our own backs and dream too much 

without fulfillin reality; too greedy and 

can't have one or two chains, we need three of dem 

Can't have one or two guns without squeezin 'em 

on our own people and, fuck black leaders 

cause whites ain't got none leadin them, the rhythm is cosmic 

Nas is divinity, the deity's prophetless 

All get down and get up 

Victims walkin 'round with Down's Syndrome, all stuck 

Faintin, shoutin, catchin Holy Ghost in church 

Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doin it first 

We begged, we prayed, petitioned and demostrated 

Just to make another generation - black zombies 

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[Chorus] 

[Nas] 

You scared to be yourself, cause you in a trance 

Feel free, hear the music and dance 

If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, just for you 

Dumb niggaz with long beards like they Arabs or Jews 

or from Israel, (?)bish'meal Allah, el-rachman, el-Rahim (?) 

Islam's a beautiful thing 

And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to bring 

peace against the darkness, which is unGodly 

So what's the black man's true religion, who should we follow? 

Use your own intuition, you are tommorrow 

[roaring] . that's the sound of the beast 

I'm a Columbia record slave, so get paid 

Control your own destiny, you are a genius 

Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie 

[Chorus] 

[Nas] 

Wake up! Black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years 

Ghetto niggaz won't have it no mo', can I get a witness? 

Why listen to somebody else tell you how to do it 

when you can do it yourself; it's all in you, do it, do it 

Do it niggaz.