Leaders

This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world Yeah! Got out the six hundred Blunted Chicks hunt him Neighborhood know he comin' Jakes hate him Snakes could not violate him Pimps memorize his lines-verbatim He reps N.Y. yo Gives C-notes to winos Not church It's how he tithe though He walks the tenement Sleeps at his super fly condo My kinda nigga My icon, my idol No certificate For this misfit who handle business The odds stacked against him He fights back mackin' Benzes Never puts cash or ass Before friendship He laughs last? As some die young He is still existing Somehow he got around the pitfalls of the system When he walks we watch When he talks we listen Leaders This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world Who do I follow? Who do I copy? Look in to the mirror And it's you I see look at me Everything new Like it fresh from the factory Everything you do? It impact me Your lifestyle attract me Parents try distract me When I grow up I want to be like you exactly (exactly) And as soon as I get over this acne There's no way anybody coulda stop me Me gravitate toward the aura And all the mannerism The sending out of orders And man start moving busy The locking of the corners? The streets and all the buildings Me love you like a father Me ready and me willing Anything what you a talk Is law in my dominion And me have similar thoughts I share the same opinions Me have it say you smart With me best interest at heart I'm following your path Yow mine when you a walk This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world They appeal to the conscious The Paramount The Cesar, the monsters The grandiose, the matters The hell on earth pompous Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson's The Harlemites the Garveyites Black as the credit card we swipe Poppin' Dom tonight For all of mine I can see myself back at the Autobahn Malcolm on the podium Shells drop to linoleum Swipe those Place 'em on display at the Smithsonian Next to only gems That were left behind By holy men Infectious Charisma of those who gave us direction The anti-sexes Resistance against oppression Progressive thinking Ghetto speakers Protesters against the colored Only section to the Jena 6 and The Frost Nixon The contradiction The cross the crucifixion The loss we took for sinning On Esau's back inscription That it was written That nothing is coincidence'n They took our leaders and they lynched them This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world This one's for all the leaders Leader Lets all change the world Change the world Change the world, change the world Change the world Change the world, change the world You change the world