[Nas] You know I love you different, my queen, my mother, sister Protect you with my life, let´s desconstruct the myth-uh
You just depressed a bit, and only good for sexin´ with you Let´s dismantle that, it´s a man you lack You don´t need us, you could handle that Let´s see where the black family at We need each other, with bad tempers, we defeat each other Single mothers, my heart´s bleeding for you These coward men, that were beating on you (Never me) Let´s silence them, with a silencer For the violence of relationships Hold your head up, don´t take that shit, run away from it I shoulda ran away myself, the amount of pain I was dealt And I´m a man, my job is to help Single parent home, came up, now the man is grown
Mom´s gone, pop´s here, wish God reversed the roles (Sometimes) If I could´ve chose, subsidized housin´ Sometimes witnessin´ the most foulest things would arouse us We became numb like pure ´caine on the tongue To the pains from economical strains
[Nas & Lil Durk] Diabolical games put on our future kings And our future queens, y´all the strongest ones (Yeah) May God gives strength to women who lost their sons I give all I have ´til the war is won (Ooh woah, oh-oh) We´re nothing without our women
I give all I have ´til the war is won (Yeah) (Ooh woah, oh-oh) I give all I have
[Nas] 2020 flows, everything getting exposed (Exposed) Who really the bros? (Bros) Who really is goals? (Goals) Who ready to let it go? All the grudges we hold (Uh) It´s too many fallen soldiers NY to the ´Go (Chi-Town) Late night outside, you hear the forty drum (Baow) In every ghetto and all the slums (For real) These laws made to slaughter us (Damn) I give all I have ´til the war is won
[Lil Durk & Nas] I was servin´ out my mama crib, she ain´t know about it (She ain´t know about it) Complaining about my rent, but I know my mama got me (My mama got me) She told me to be a man, and never sleep through problems (Sleep through problems) University of the streets, I ain´t plan on going to college (Oh yeah) Why you crying ´bout low income and welfare? (Ooh) You ain´t the only one going through it, this everywhere Better hold your head, I know it don´t feel fair Reason my people dead and they know I still care Depending on the people, then you gotta do better Black lives matter, I´m for real, it do matter (For real, it do matter)
Black-on-black crime, they still do it to whoever (Whoever) Talking to the trenches, we just gotta do better (Do better) He think he Martin Luther, but he tryna be a shooter (Tryna be a shooter) Got his car took, he ride with guns in the Uber (In the Uber) I´m talking where we from, we carry MACs, but no computers (No computers) He got out yesterday, but he went in when he was juvie (Chi-Town)
[Nas] Diabolical games put on our future kings And our future queens, y´all the strongest ones (Yeah) May God gives strength to women who lost their sons
I give all I have ´til the war is won
[ Nas & Lil Durk] She do the best to raise our young Ooh, she independent and she don´t depend on no one We ain´t nothing without our women Ooh, she independent, went from a girl to a woman One love to the single mothers Ooh, oh, yeah, yeah I give all I have ´til the war is won (Ooh, woah, oh-oh) ´Til the war is won, we gotta stick together Women, stop chasing your man away Men, stop acting crazy, chasing your woman away We all we have ´til the war is won, yeah