the words to this tune are so scarily close to the truth when written and even more so today . . . . .

Lyrics...nuff said ?

this has aged like fine wine

This still sounds heavy, lyrics going off and the music is funky as fuck ✌️

Had the cassette in Jr.High!!

My father bring a VHS in tape ( 1986) called Beatstreet the best film in my life and I saw Mellemel an hipnótico Mc his voice is the best so far...like a comic superhero.

MELLE MEL IS A GREATEST EMCEE TO MAKE A RECORD

Melle Mel is the GOAT !!!!! The line starts BEHIND him !!!!!!

Quite possibly one of the best rap songs ever recorded.

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Totally agree Melle Mel has the knowledge, the lyrics and the badass -ness. The man is on another interdimensional plane spitting truth that keep slapping you into reality with every verse. The baddest rapper on the planet smacking you with the lyrics like you owed him money.

Life is a game of business
And in the end we sight (swear to god)
The new and old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks they’re right
War is a game of business
A game we shouldn’t play (swear to god)
Cause men with guns killed all our sons
They blew us all away

They called it
World (paranoina!)
War (it’s almost over)
3 (cause nobody hears what the people say)

Realistically the bombs are ready
Technically, nuclear by name
Capability of total destruction
Radioactive death and flame
There is talk of a firey doom
Prophesied since the dawn of time
In a world of bloodshed, mass confusion
Killer diseases, pollution and crime
Man is in conflict with nature
And that is why there’s so much sin
Mother nature’s delicate balance will fix it so nobody wins

In world (catastrofic)
War (reaganomic)
3 (and nobody hears what the people say)

World (it’s atomic)
War (catastrofic)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

A thousand miles away from home
A mortally wounded soldier dies
And on the blood stained battlefield
His life flashes before his eyes
Before he dies the man saw Jesus
And Jesus Christ took his hand
And on the soldier’s dying breath
The good lord took him to the promised land

Cause there’s.. No (people living)
More (people dying)
Pain (everybody disappeared)

After world (people living)
War (people crying)
3 (ha ha ha ha)
Breakdown, pain...

1984, see the world at war
Your darkest fears of reality are knockin’ down your door
Drones and mutations, clones and deviations
And there’s no one that can escape the nuclear revelation

Because
War is a game of business
And in the end we sight (swear to god)
The new and old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks they’re right

World (paranoina!)
War (it’s almost over)
3 (ha ha ha ha)

The silver moon, the midnight stars, Jupiter collides with mars
And out of the darkness spirits roar
To cast revenge on the earth once more
The leaders of the world are hypnotized
By wizards, dark and in disguise
Brought to earth by an evil hand
To devour souls in a brand new land
They let the leader think that war brings peace
And out come the one with the mark of the beast
There’s evil behind closed doors
In the year of 1984

Life is a game of business
And in the end we sight (swear to god)
The new and old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks they’re right
War is a game of business
A game we shouldn’t play (swear to god)
Cause men with guns killed all our sons
They blew us all away

World (catastrofic)
War (reaganomic)
3 (ha ha ha ha)

Long ago and all too soon
2 different wars fought on the moon
One put (creators[?]) on it first
Then we blew futher in the universe
Both of these were nuclear wars
Breaking universal laws
Then falling stars and meteorites
Dropped to earth by day and night
Twisters, earthquakes, hurricanes
Volcanos, drops and torrential rain
Then one day, the UFO’s
Came to see the whole world explode
We will pay the ultimate price
And a lesson is to be learned
When we play with nuclear fire
Everybody’s gonna get burned

War is a game of business
A game we shouldn’t play (swear to god)
Cause men with guns killed all our sons
They blew us all away

Pain! Pain! (so let the music play on)

Between the boundaries of time and space
Was the planet earth and the human race
A world alive and centuries old
With veins of diamonds, silver and gold
Snow capped mountains over looked the land
And the deep blue sea made love with the sand
Full grown strands of evergreen hair
Kissed the sky with a breath of air
Where exotic fish once swam in the sea
And the eagles soared in the sky so free
But the foolish clan that walked the land
Was the creature, that they called man
They’re cannibalistic, paranoid fools
Tricking each other with games and rules
Training their men to kill and fight
Moving and stearing their mechanized might
Only thought that man had in mind
Was to conquer the world and the rest of mankind
And with the thought that they were right
They gave you permission to take a man’s life
The ones you killed fought just as hard
Then you even had the nerve to pray to god
But god don’t wanna hear all your mess
When you ain’t the one that he laid to rest
The devil’s children with no disgrace
Crushed and killed the human race
While they got rich off the games and war
What in the hell were you fighting for
A silly ass metal, a stupid parade
For all those innocent people you slaid
And after that, you couldn’t even get a job
Cause fighting that war made you a slob
A sergeant and major, a corporal, Lieutenant
Titles and positions were all invented
You, and me, and all this mess
Are just a bunch of pieces in a game of chess
It’s all the same, a third world war
A blood thirsty massacre just like before
It’s genocide, three billion tears
Feeding on a war every twenty years
Then one day we heard the sound
Of the whole damn world tumbling down
Just one big boom, and what do you know
The world is a ghetto, high and low
Crumbling buildings all around
Man’s creation burned to the ground
Chaos, panic, fear and pain
Days of radioactive rain
Grotesque figures burned alive
Miraculously seem to survive
Everything of reality is the science fiction on TV
Mutant dog and sabertoothed rats
Eat men with guns and baseball bats
The dead won’t die, the (rudie[?]) won’t cry
And everybody’s asking the question “why”
Until swarms of millions walk from the city
And thousands more went underground below
With their head held down in their own pity
Wondering where, they do not know
Cause in this game we had a chance
But we blew it for cheap thrills and romance
Maybe one day we’ll get another play
But until then remember what I say

Life is a game of business
And in the end we sight (swear to god)
The new and old are bought and sold
And everybody thinks they’re right
War is a game of business
A game we shouldn’t play (swear to god)
Cause men with guns killed all our sons
They blew us all away

2019, who hear this?

Pay attention to what he says of ufos

????????I got this album

Grand master Melle Mel and the Masters of the Universe

You can feel every word mel.is saying in your spirit

Nothing has changed Melle Mell called it 30 years ago ..War is a game of business he saw the Global World Order and how they will destroy all of us

I used to own this....leant it out.....never got it back....quite rare now i notice

Melle Mel for me has got to be st the top of the list of best ever rappers.

"To learn from the past... and work for the future...AND DON'T BE A SLAVE TO NO COMPUTER"

I remember buying the album and being disappointed because the OG line up was not there, but after playing this track and having some understanding of God and the world I was living in 1984, 2019 the Bible & this song have never left my mind Melle Mel the G.O.A.T

Prophet

Melle Mel is on another level here.

Crazy how this song doent have at least equal views to the message

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaaaaaaaa!!!!