One Step - Killah Priest

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[intro: killah priest, {killah priest in background of his intro}]
Your arms too short to box with god...
(kp, iron shiek,
In these times we gotta take one step. forward.
Put one foot in front of the other, my brother.
Yo, check this out)
{killah priest, hell razah, prodigal sunn,
Royal fam, dreddy kruger}

[killah priest]
Early natives related to throwns of david
Captured by some patriots, and thrown on slave ships
They stripped us naked, while they wives picked they favourite
Lives were wasted, in the hands of the hated
Driven from the garden [garden], now we starvin' in the martyring sodom
They call it harlem, wordly problems got us at the bottom
The earth crisis, and the righteous grab their ice picks
Seekers like us for our rices, I stay in ciphers
Our live is, connected to second son of isaacs, which had a tight grip
On the heels of his brother, revealed to his mother
The elders who served the younger, words heard in thunder
Down from under, rose and fled to grow in hunger, now it's cold in summer
To slow your slumbers, behold a number, 600, 6 and 3 score
The same as he saw, who ate his heat raw, in the time before
They climbed aboard a dinosaur, information held behind the doors
We came from the atmosphere, the physical trapped us here
Then they gave us crack and beer, in the back of the stairs
Please adapt your ears, add or subtract the years, and form the unwise
And watch the sunrise from sunset, none-slep, one flesh, one breath.

[chorus: hell razah, (tekitha)]
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)
One step, one flesh, one breath
(your arms too short to box with god...)

[killah priest]
Devils morale, they caught us playing with the gold marbles
We wrote novels, now we live life in the bottle, before the devil sold me
To the unholy, because my father told me
I lived like a monks of lowly, lowly, but lowly?
The president just ordered the navy to hit the borders of haiti
Slaughtered babies from the waters of euphrates
Maybe they send germs that polluted our sperm
And made us live with circumcize in the serpent eyes
And told us certain lies, and each day a servant dies
But in the halls of farrow the walls are narrow
And religion is like a prison for the seekers of wisdom
Now free them, lets feed um', feed um'...
They took the first book of jacob to jamaica
Promised us 40 achers and a mule, treated like an animal
Understand the jewel, brought to the 50 states
Deuteronomy 28, verse 68, it all relates, 1555 is when we first arrived
We tell jokes wish um' get high, and watch the fish fry...

[chorus]

[outro: tekitha]
One step...
One, one, step, step
One, one, flesh
One, one, step.
One, one, breath...
One. step...
One... step...

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Killah Priest is a tangential associate of the Wu-Tang Clan. The Brooklyn native made his first recorded appearances on records by such Wu side projects and solo albums as the Gravediggaz, Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return to the 36 Chambers, and, most importantly, Genius/GZA's seminal Liquid Swords. His contributions became legendary and paved the way for the release of his acclaimed debut album, Heavy Mental, in the spring of 1998.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville, Killah Priest became infatuated with hip-hop as a child, listening to old-school and new school acts like Eric B. & Rakim alike. He also was influenced by local rappers, like GZA and Onyx's Suave, who would often play local parties. Killah Priest began working on his rhyming and eventually earned a considerable reputation in Brooklyn , but instead of pursuing his musical career further, he took a sabbatical in order to educate himself, primarily about religion and history.

Killah Priest returned to rapping in 1995, appearing on several Wu projects. All of his cameos were noteworthy, but his role on Liquid Swords earned special attention. By the end of 1996, he formed his own side project, the Sunz of Man. In 1997, GZA suggested to Geffen that they sign Killah Priest, and the label took his advice.

Killah worked on the album with True Master and 4th Disciple, two producers associated with the Clan. The resulting album, Heavy Mental, was dense with religious imagery and filled with evocative sounds. It received excellent reviews upon its March 1998 release and was a respectable commercial success, debuting at number 24 on the pop charts.

Killah Priest issued his second album, View from Masada, in the spring of 2000, further bolstering his status as one of the most compelling solo artists in the Wu-Tang stable. After that he has released more projects such as Priesthood and Black August. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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