The Show Goes On

(Nigga's is in the building, ya, ya) All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on Have you ever had the feelin' that you was bein' had? Don't that shit there make you mad? They treat you like a slave Put chains all on your soul and put whips up on your back They be lyin' through they teeth, hope you slip up off your path I don't switch up, I just laugh, put my kicks up on they desk Unaffected by they threats, then get busy on they ass See, that how that Chi-town made me, that's how my daddy raised me That glitterin' may not be gold, don't let nobody play me If you are my homeboy, you'll never have to pay me Go'n and put your hands up, when times is hard, you stand up L-U-P the man, cuz, the brand that the fans trust So even if they ban us, they'll never slow my plans up All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on One in the air for the people ain't here Two in the air for the father that's there Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto Four for the kids that don't wanna be there None for the niggas tryna hold them back Five in the air for the teachers not scared To tell those kids that's livin' in the ghetto That the niggas holdin' back that the world is theirs Yeah, yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour I will give up everything, even start a world war For these ghetto girls and boys I'm rappin' 'round the world for Africa to New York, Haiti, then I detour Oakland out to Auckland, Gaza Strip to Detroit Say hip-hop only destroy, tell 'em look at me, boy I hope your son don't have a gun and never be a D-boy All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on So no matter what been through, no matter what you into No matter what you see when you look outside your window Brown grass or green grass, picket fence or barbed wire Never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher Raise 'em 'til your arms tired, let 'em know you here That you struggling, survivin', that you gon' persevere Ain't nobody leavin', nobody goin' home Even if they turn the lights out, the show is goin' on All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on All right, I'm ready The show goes on All night 'til the morning We dream so long Anybody ever wonder When we'd see the sun go Remember when you come up The show goes on