Blood sweat tears baby 400 Years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that we ain't checkin for revenge Ma' Blood sweat tears baby 400 Years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that we ain't checkin for revenge Ma' Cause karma is a oooo Karma got a name Monopoly Finished playing yo game Lack of empathy Could never feel my pain Power and fascist gain What a shame They manipulated the word Blind lead the herd Law wanna to keep us illiterate Believe everything that we heard Now we learned we the chosen The meek shall inherit the earth The weak never thought it could work Bout time that we lifted the curse Oooo For a lot of you, you acting real ignorant Thespian Play the role of the innocent Desolate, drowning in your privilege Now that i'm privy im a pass it to my lineage Blood sweat tears baby 400 Years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that i ain't checkin' for revenge Ma' Blood sweat tears baby 400 Years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that we ain't checkin' for revenge Ma' This shit aint never stop Look this shit aint never stop Watch like a scarecrow See my granny had to share crop Early 80s Pops had to share them pop rocks To get out the hood wit no jump shot Thats a long shot 5-0 He was dodging bullets and the 5-0 Cousin vice lords From the city where the wind blow Made a way He bought a building 'fore the price rose Worked at the hospital i was born Nigga he cleaned floors said they gone try to lock my body but i free my mind Liberate your people til they seek and reach they peace of pie Blood sweat tears baby 400 years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that i ain't checkin' for revenge Ma' Blood sweat tears baby 400 Years No cap Put that on my kids Pay me my dues Nigga, give me my ends Lucky that we ain't checkin' for revenge Ma'