(Two times)

Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation

(Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation)

(If you're ready for this

Say you're ready for this
If you're ready for this
Say you're ready for this

Are you ready for this
We're ready for this
Are you ready for this

We're ready for this
Well, we just can't miss
We just can't miss

Well, we just can't miss
With a beat like this)


I seen a brother kill another brother
Then I heard the brother say "Word to the mother"
Thought to myself: is this insane

Or this just another bull%#@! game?
Keep playin and if I keep groovin
What that mutha$#&@a Schoolly D provin?

That I'm a blackman you misunderstand
So what you're sayin? (Word to the motherland)
And the reality for me and you

What that mutha$#&@a think you think that we can do
To give
Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation

(Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation)

(If you're ready for this

Say you're ready for this
If you're ready for this
Say you're ready for this

Are you ready for this
We're ready for this
Are you ready for this

We're ready for this)

So what you're sayin, so what you're doin?

What that mutha$#&@a think you think that you're pursuin
Money and fame in this bull%#@! game for life
Stabbed in the back by my own brother's knife

I keep strivin, dip-dip-divin
While the others keep killin and robbin
And stealin and petty drug-dealin

$#&@in up (*##$es, that's how I'm feelin
The reality for me and you
What that mutha$#&@a think you think that we can do

To get

Peace in the mutha$#&@in nation

(Peace in the mutha$#&@in nation)
Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation
(Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation)


(If you're ready for this
Say you're ready for this

If you're ready for this
Say you're ready for this
Are you ready for this

We're ready for this
Are you ready for this
We're ready for this)


The three top-sellin black products
Is gold, hoes and any narcotic

Let me tell you a little somethin 'bout knowledge
How many black mutha$#&@as go to college?
In my mind there's a light like a lantern

I can see there's a mutha$#&@in pattern
The brothers on the street just tryin
Is the same mutha$#&@a that's dyin

And the reality for me and you
What that mutha$#&@a think you think that we can do
To give

Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation

(Peace to the mutha$#&@in Nation)

(If you're ready for this
Say you're ready for this
If you're ready for this

Say you're ready for this
Are you ready for this
We're ready for this
Are you ready for this
We're ready for this

Well, we just can't miss
We just can't miss
Well, we just can't miss
With a beat like this)