Silver Anniversary - Ras Kass

We’re getting ready to have a live session

Now, what we was trying to say

When you have real change, everybody’s thing begin to change

Teacher begins to teach a new lesson

Preacher begins to preach a new sermon

And the musician also tries to capture the new thing so that we might have

melody and have rhythm as we do our thing

Oh, it’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Oh, it’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Now the world is⁠—

25 years in the making

Before conversations with Elohim and Satan

«Nature of The Threat» still more relevant than ever

Hate crimes multiplied, Christians in red hats

«Zero tolerance», Jesus never said that

Jésus got deported though, another orphan in the barrio

Time to strap up like a sicario

I was hypnotized by the audio

Now the boys dance like strippers

Wear stretchy jeans, fake pockets and mad zippers

Trust fund babies dress poor and claim hipster

Gentrified the hood but will still call you a nigga

The weed legal, but the police will still kill

These bitches ass fake, but the pussy still real

Hottest rappers can’t rap, they just Milli Vanilli

Philly freed Meek Milly, the jury killed Billy

Cosby, I’ll prolly be underrated for life

Fake my own death, go triple Platinum overnight

Then re-emerge in Costa Rica with 2Pac

Like «Who Shot Ya», guess who it’s not

It’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Oh, it’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Now the world is⁠—

Since last time you paid attention, I lost some friends

Well, hell, me and Xzibit, we kick it again

But most them so-called friends is gone

Turned into the same fuckboy he hated when we was tryna get on

I guess hurt people hurt people

Never-ending cycle with a fucked up sequel

The internet beat major labels then Zuckerberg sold ads

And labels spent millions, so independents finished last (Again)

Pay the publicist who add you to the playlist

YouTube, Spotify, it’s still pay to play, bitch (Facts)

These crackers brought back Reaganomics, the '80s

The war on crime and incarceration for profit

Got self-destructive, they locked up my ass

Thank God Chino XL and Vinny Paz said «Free Ras Kass»

Arabs got banned, Black men got shot

Asian girls running around sucking any and every white boys cock

Like it’s the new Colonialism

The devil conquered by creating division

Historical revision purposely

The verse will be mercury, my silver anniversary

Oh, it’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Oh, it’s been such a long, long time

Yes, it’s been such a long, long time

Now the world is⁠—