Verse of the Week: "The Ghetto" By: Rakim

I learn to relax in my room and escape from New York


Take a trip through the womb of the world as a thought

Thinkin how hard it was to be born

Me being cream with no physical form

Millions of cells with one destination

To reach the best part that's life's creation

Nine months later a job well done

Make way cause here I come

Since I made it this far can't stop now

There's a will and a way and I got the know-how

To be all there is to be and more

To see all there is to see before

I'm called to go back to the essence

It's a lot to learn so I studied my lessons

I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me

I'm glad I listened when my father was rapping to me

Cause back in the days they lived in caves

Exiled from the original man and strayed away

Now that's what I call hard times

I'd rather be here to exercise the mind

Then I take a thought around the world twice

From knowledge the form back to knowledge precise

Across the desert that's hot as the Arabian

But they couldn't cave me in cause I'm the Asian

Reaching for the city of Mecca visit Medina

Visions of Nefertiti then I seen her

Mind keeps travelin I'll be back after I

Stop and think about the brothers and sisters in Africa

Return the thought through the eye of a needle

For miles I fought and I just fought the people

Under the darks skies on a dark side

Not only there but right here's an aparthied

So now is the time for us to react

Take a trip through the mind and when you get back

Understand your third eye seen all of that
It aint where you from it's where you at