You ain't livin right punk, I'll have to school you Not rule you, but I'll say yo you fool yourself When you try to deny and defy written laws This means your cause has lost Think about it, take the time, and even ponder longer Then let your mind start to wander Go black and track the facts, about all of your mistakes It only takes to one to make fate Pick up your life, clean up your act, and get a legal plan You can, or be an evil man Caught, and then you claim youre not responsible The choice was yours, when the funs gone you will realize That you dont get somethin for nothin, why you bluffin? Others even brothers are stuffin their pockets With honest cash, theyll laugh, so dont knock it Jock it, cause the guru must stop it Ill jab you, smack you, crack -- youre demolished You must acknowledge -- life is like a college in itself Get a degree in reality Or you will be upon it like a lawn youll be walked on Gone, never to see or be the same again Friend, cause the time you spend Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race Will have your life in a wreck And homeboy life is cause and effect Exactly what you put in boy, you will get out of it The energy released comes back, there is no doubt of it So when you thrive to connive and contrive foolish deeds This means youll bleed from greed Dig the rhyme dig the thought, of what will happen You're nappin, youre gonna fall off the map n Lie out, and cry out, why? you got the short end of the stick 'Cause youre too quick to run tricks Open your mind, widen your sight, get out of your rut Move, and get the lead out of your butt Cause you cant live without a plan to get freshed chump And you shouldnt stand to let Anything sway you from the path you know is truthful Chill, cause you know the chosen youth will Take over, and control the whole so dont blow it Know it, cause the guru must show it Ill teach you, reachin each so youre enlightened Emcees are frightened, by what I write in my songs Cause I express what I manifest While some of you fall down to the ground with breakdowns Never to see or be the same again Friend, cause the time you spend Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race Will have your life in a wreck And homeboy life is cause and effect You're still playin games lame, Ill have to end you Straight to the gate of fate, so you can claim your doom Will you decay as you pay in repentance I light my sentence like incense Breathe in, expel your fears as you marvel Heed what I feed, you wont starve youll make it But if you dont, you will be finished Youll dissapear, you will diminish Never to see or be the same again Friend, cause the time you spend Bringin down yourself, bringin down the pace Bringin down your friends, bringin down the race Will leave you bugged and upset Cause homeboy life is cause and effect Cause and effect!!