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Song For The Future

from Old School Long Playa Volume One by DP Da Reapa

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Song for the Future (Your Loving Side)

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Hold me Love me mold me
Show me your loving side

Verse 1

People be talking ‘bout the kids today and act as if they don’t know how they got this way
But kids only follow the models we set
And if we ain’t ready, then they ain’t ready yet
‘Cause they emulate what we demonstrate
So best be on yo P’s and Q’s and keep yoself straight
‘Cause there’s a young one always looking at you
Trying to do what you do
When you do yo thing or acting a fool
Whether you got some of yo own or U grown
Or just contemplating the sound of yo first born
Everything they see is a teaching, Yo words be a preaching
They reaching for the stars you seeking
Gotta represent something worth looking at
If you thinking ‘bout doing the negative, they remember that
Maybe you don’t care about yo own situation
But at least leave something for the next generation

Verse 2

Most important occupation in life to be a father in times of strife
Help my physicals with third eyesight to get it right
My job be to prepare the pathway, the freeway,
Take’em down halfway
Until they can go for them self 'n' the health and the wealth
While I slip into the spiritual realm like stealth
‘Cause I know one day I gotta leave here
They the only part of me that’ll be here

And if any words be spoken for me It’s gone be because of the fruit from my own tree
The youth that I raised
The youth that I teached
The youth that I saved
The youth that I reached
So let me raise my voice to the rafters of each and every building
Until the emptiness of every little heart be filled in
It’s time...to save the children

(C) 2004 Nikitah Imani (DP Da Reapa)

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from Old School Long Playa Volume One, released January 1, 2004

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DP Da Reapa Council Bluffs, Iowa

DP Da Reapa (Dr. Nikitah Imani) is Pres. and CEO of Faith4Word a company in Council Bluffs, Iowa of which ReapALife Records is a vital part. He is from the ATL and holds a BSFS, 2 master's degrees, and a Ph.D. He is Professor of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He represents his hometown ATL doing the old school hip hop. ... more

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