2Pac, Kadafi - Who Do You Believe In(2002)

[00:06.73] Let us pray
[00:07.50] Heavenly Father, hear a nigga down here
[00:08.26] Before I go to sleep
[00:11.29] Tell me, who do you believe in?
[00:17.77] Who do you believe in?
[00:23.79] I see mothers in black cryin', brothers in packs dyin'
[00:26.04] Plus everybody's high, too doped up to ask why
[00:29.50] Watchin' our own downfall, witness the end
[00:31.81] It's like we don't believe in God 'cause we livin' in sin
[00:33.59] I asked my homie on the block why he strapped, he laughed
[00:36.21] Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blast
[00:38.82] It's just another murder, nobody mourns no more
[00:41.70] My tear drops gettin' bigger but can't figure what I'm cryin' for
[00:44.23] Is it the miniature caskets, little babies
[00:46.15] Victims of a stray from drug dealers gone crazy
[00:49.00] Maybe it's just the drugs, visions of how the block was
[00:53.22] Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us
[00:55.02] Perhaps the underlyin' fact stay high explain genocide
[00:58.15] It's when we ride on our own kind
[01:01.72] What is it we all fear, reflections in the mirror
[01:02.86] We can't escape fate, the end is gettin' nearer
[01:05.70] Who do you believe in?
[01:06.79] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[01:08.65] And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
[01:12.38] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[01:15.39] Who do you believe in?
[01:17.45] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[01:19.84] And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
[01:22.64] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[01:26.14] Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror
[01:27.74] I hate the man in the mirror
[01:28.78] 'Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
[01:31.04] Times of Armageddeon, murder in mass amounts
[01:32.91] In this society where only gettin' the cash counts
[01:37.17] I started out as a beginner
[01:38.22] Entered the criminal lifestyle became a sinner
[01:40.92] I make my money and vacate, evade prison
[01:43.04] Went from the chosen one to outcast, unforgiven
[01:45.96] And all the Hennessey and weed can't hide, the pain I feel inside
[01:49.47] You know, it's like I'm livin' just to die
[01:51.79] I fall on my knees and beg for mercy, not knowin' if I'm worthy
[01:54.58] Livin' life thinkin' no man can hurt me
[01:56.92] So I'm askin' before I lay me down to sleep
[01:59.32] Before you judge me, look at all the shit you did to me, my misery
[02:02.48] I rose up from the slums, made it out the flames
[02:05.18] In my search for fame will I change? I'm askin'
[02:07.90] Who do you believe in?
[02:09.50] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[02:12.16] And even though it's hard that's who I believe in
[02:14.53] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[02:18.46] Who do you believe in?
[02:19.82] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[02:22.55] And even though it's hard that's who I believe in
[02:24.85] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[02:28.98] Faith in Allah, believe in me and this plastic
[02:31.47] 'Cause so far I done witnessed to many dead niggaz in caskets
[02:34.16] With they chest plates stretched like elastic
[02:36.27] And what's worse I'm on front line, holdin' down camp, still mashin'
[02:38.66] Heard my cousin, one of the old heads from the block
[02:41.82] Just came home October of '95 back in Yardsville stuck
[02:44.41] With a three to five, if he don't act up, now he realize
[02:47.25] If you don't stay wise, then in this game you fucked
[02:49.44] Talk to my baby girl, give me the word on what she heard
[02:52.38] One of the grimmies is snitchin'
[02:53.45] Diamond a stool pigeon I talked to him
[02:55.09] He said he didn't, my man said he did, in fact he's sure
[02:57.92] 'Cause he just came home off of bail
[03:00.28] Now tell me
[03:01.53] Who do you believe in?
[03:02.18] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[03:04.45] And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
[03:06.73] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[03:10.57] Who do you believe in?
[03:12.37] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[03:14.35] And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
[03:17.46] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[03:21.06] Who do you believe in?
[03:22.55] Is it Budda, Jehovah, or Jah? Or Allah?
[03:26.86] Is it Jesus? Is it God? Or is just yourself?
[03:29.32] Definitely not to be imposed being a demon
[03:39.99] Because this is the joy of believing
[03:42.83] Men to believe in yourselves
[03:46.55] But for sure, the higher power
[03:48.04] Resides only to ride in the heart of the true
[03:52.68] From the soul of the man, for truth never has an alibi
[03:58.53] In the poetry or in it's realm
[04:00.92] That's what pulls all words together
[04:04.14] Just to understand, that every man, is his own man
[04:09.80] And only man can satisfy the man
[04:13.58] Only the soul of the man, the feelings of the man
[04:16.47] The for realness of the man
[04:17.92] You can't shake the man when you feel the man you know the man
[04:20.13] And you gotta call yourself because you are that man
[04:23.32] Who do you believe in?
[04:25.31] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[04:27.99] (Who do you believe in? Put my faith in God and
[04:37.31] Blessed and still breathin')
[04:40.33] Even though it's hard
[04:41.07] (Who do you believe in?)
[04:42.45] That's who I believe in
[04:43.32] (Put my faith in God)
[04:47.82] Before I'm leavin'
[04:50.58] (Even though it's hard)
[04:51.19] I'm askin' the grievin'
[04:52.50] (Before I'm leavin' I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?)
[04:54.43] Who do you believe in?
[04:57.46] (Who do you believe in?)
[05:01.56] Who do you
[05:04.59] (Blessed and still breathin')
[05:05.52] Oh blessed, oh blessed
[05:06.28] (Before I'm leavin' I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?)
[05:08.18] Oh who do you
[05:08.76] Do you believe in
[05:09.53] Oh, oh
[05:10.13] Who do you believe in?
[05:11.04] I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin'
[05:11.77] And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in
[05:14.55] Before I'm leavin' I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?
[05:15.59] I'm askin'
[05:21.28] (Who do you believe in?)
[05:22.53] I'm askin' you
[05:23.36] (Put my faith in God that's who I believe in
[05:23.80] Before I'm leavin' I'm askin' the grievin' who do you believe in?)
[05:27.17] Who do you believe in?
[05:28.68] I'm blessed and still breathin'
[05:29.51] That's who I believe in
[05:30.27] Before I'm leavin', I'm askin' the grievin'
[05:30.70] Who do you believe in?
[05:30.95]
[05:30.95] Who do you believe in?