Moment of Truth lyrics

* I'm not sure about any of these names *

Mami Mary, Mary Coleman that is

I love you, rest in peace

You still here though
Word up

This goes out to you

Mary Parker, Loretta Randall

Grandfather Bill

Runy Manuel, Robert N'Blangio

Uncle C, Alicia Elon

Giovanni

[Guru]

To my man G.O.V., I remember how you used to be

You do your first bid and dirt to get your name known

You never talk too much to get your spot blown

Now you're no longer just a face in the crowd

You're gettin so much respect that niggaz might as well bow

And movin up with your hustle like you planned it
Rakin dough like the world's greatest bandit

Always got one eye open, for the stick-up kids postin

f/ Big Shug, Freddie Foxxx

"There's a bulletin - state police, Princeton Junction"

"The militia...
Certain individuals of unidentified nature

is now under complete control"

"Hip-hop is not, what it is today.."

"It's the real *echoes*... it's the (militia)"

Verse one: Big Shug

f/ M.O.P.

*GangStarr's "Who's Gonna Take the Weight?" plays in the background*

[Guru]
It's like, a friendship, and a business partnership

And, we have to always be concious of the difference

between em; because y'know, some things can happen

that'll ruin one or the other, so

we alwa-we always stay concious of those things

Those obstacles that can, y'know trip us up

[some Jamaican gwal]

No matta wat we fyace

We mus face de moment of trut baybe

Chorus: Guru

They say it's lonely at the top, in whatever you do

You always gotta watch motherfuckers around you

Nobody's invincible, no plan is foolproof

We all must meet our moment of truth

Verse One: Guru

The same sheisty cats that you hang with, and do your thang with

f/ Hannibal

"We got news for ya" --> scratched by DJ Premier

Chorus: Guru and Hannibal

[Guru] While they devise our demise, we grow wise

[Hann] Upset the set up, the element of surprise

[both] IT'Z A SET UP

[Guru] It's time to upset the set up

Verse One: Guru

Though they conspire, fake us to make us retire

Yo

Yo Premier?

Yeah whassup G?

That trip to L.A., may be delayed

Why whassup I'm on my way to the airport now
Yeah well your boy Guru got knocked

WHAT?!

I don't know what this is about, sounds crazy man

Somethin about a gun

"The court calls Keith Elam to the stand.

Please approach the bench."

[Guru]

Yo they got me handcuffed, I'm down in central booking

f/ Inspectah Deck

"It has come to our attention that a mysterious force is LOOSE..

somewhere in outer space."

"The mysteries of creation are there."

"Up in the sky?" "Up in the sky."

"The moon and the planets are there.

And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

And therefore as we set sail; we ask God's blessing --

"Gangstarr has gots to be the sure shot" --> Greg Nice

"and it's like dat" (Primo scratching)

"GangStarr" "Represent"

[K-Ci and JoJo] Ohhh yeah

[Guru]

One of the meanest and the cleanest

And still I'm kind of feindish when I'm at this

Been doin this for eons, peons best to catch this

vision of excellence, precise rappin ability

Are you working?

What kind of work do you do?

Uhh...

("Boy, what is it you want to do when you grow up?)

Aiyyo I'm gonna be on ti-dop, that's all my eyes can see

Victory is mine, yeah surprisingly

I've been laying, waiting for your next mistake

I put in work, and watch my status escalate

Now I'ma start collectin props, connectin plots

[Intro features Elijah Shabazz from Muhammad Mosque No. 7]

Peace Brother Elijah

Hey peace Guru, how you doin?

I'm maintainin
Just been thinkin though man

about the situation for today's youth man, the seeds man

What's your opinion on that?

Mmm that's strange I was thinkin the same thing

Somethin I read in the holy Qu'ran how it says

Intro: Guru

Word is bond, these cats been on the mic fantasizing a LOT

So called MC's, wannabe rappers and all that, whatever

You get your knot rocked kid, yo

Chorus: Guru

You thought you brought your best lines, but they couldn't touch mine

I rocked you in your knot hope you have better luck next time

(repeat 2X)

Verse One: Guru

[Guru]

That makes me know that, we we we we're doin

We had the right idea in the beginning

And and we just need to maintain our focus, and elevate

We what we do we update our formulas
We have certain formulas but we update em (oh right)

with the times, and everything y'know

And and so.. y'know

The rhyme style is elevated

The style of beats is elevated

f/ Scarface

Intro(phone conversation):

Yo what up son?

-Yo what up kid?
Yo, you holdin your head up?

-I'm tryin to man, but the system is shady

Word man they always man, they always tryin

to keep a good brother down, but I'm sayin

We still, you know we got love for you son

and we prayin for you and we, you know

we tryin to hold it down wh

you know while you in there man

f/ G-Dep, Shiggy Sha

Intro/Chorus: repeat 2X

Make money money -- GO SHOPPIN!
Take money money -- GO SHOPPIN!

No matter what the weather, winter spring or fall

We'll be doin it... "at the mall"

[G-Dep]

Yo what the deal cousin, gave him a pound now we huggin

in the mall thuggin, buggin, spent a few hundred

Shorties must be lovin, shit, jigg to my Wallow's

f/ Krumb Snatcha

[Guru]

First and foremost, some rappers are sweet like fructose

When I cock back these lyrics, y'all punks best be ghost
I be the seven twenty-one, eighteen twenty-one

The illest one, I'm almost doper than anyone

Straight out the late nights of Bed-Stuy

Steppin up, y'all put your weapons up, I make heads fly

You're artificial like saccarhin

Yo yo Gu-rizzi, yo

Yo whassup son?

Yo man, youknowhatImean? I need this money man

Get up out in these, in these streets man

Yo, so what's the deal God?
I'm sayin, what you need though?

Yo let me have like, two or three, three G's man

I'm sayin, I'm sayin son man

You know what happened last time though

I gotta do what I gotta do man, I gotta eat man

"From New York straight talk, America's best" (3X)

"Yo I'm not new to this I'm true to this" -> Apocalipse

"Word up!"

"From New York straight talk... America's best"

[Guru]

Yo, it doesn't make sense, for you to compete against

this New York vibe that gets your whole body tense

Calm down, listen to a brother who knows

This jam is dedicated

to that woman that knows what she wants

and just how to get it, word up

She knows what she wants (2X)
Yo, she knows what she wants

She knows what she wants and just how to get it

She knows what she wants

Yeah, she knows what she wants

She knows what she wants

She knows what she wants and just how to get it

"Tell the people what you're here for"

Intro/Chorus: Guru

It's the message in the song that makes you rock on
Some people go to places where they don't belong

Whether wrong or right, a lot of people fight

But I'm here to bless this mic, aight?

Verse One: Guru

I take action the minute that the crowd gets hype

I'm type crashin, down like a meteorite