I see people hating other people Tell me what's the reason That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money What's the reason
By the time of age nine I'm already decidin' If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin' Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment And we die then so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects Watchin' them older ****** pass pot and they high man I'm just a young boy snot nose hair nappy Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me So I would go to school and try to get good grades Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids So she cussed them said "My son ain't no ************' hoodlum" They judged us thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from Got a little older and now I see Young ****** wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)
I see people hating other people Tell me what's the reason That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money What's the reason For these wars we're fighting with each other Season after season When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin' What's the reason
Uh picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave She never had it it's not hers to begin with She gives it breakfast baths and dinners Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on Ain't had a good meal in so long but so long as mommy's a maid Cookin' and cleanin' she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin' Where's my daddy who's my daddy have you seen him I could imagine them askin' what type of human be-ing Could leave his family go back to the Carribean Was he locked up shot up does he have freedom Mom said wipe your tears keep readin' But daddy's somewhere spirit broken feelin' defeated A man feels he has to conquer all The world is his oyster his pearl so y'all know
I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace 'Cause this world keeps spinning yet still I wonder what's the reason
I see people hating other people Tell me what's the reason When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin' What's the reason Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa
I know a girl her boyfriend was a fugitive She's intuitive be on some stupid **** She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother Now he away doin' numbers now she gay with her lover How many ****** gon' die this summer I pump life in my music but still life is a wonder There's a officer in a squad car he's a ********** serial killer It's odd huh 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night Little bad ass bastard lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz In her pad while she slept They said Prescott Bush funded ****** while the world's in a twister ***** what you expect Imagine what's next
I see people hating other people Tell me what's the reason That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money What's the reason For these wars we're fighting with each other Season after season When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin' What's the reason
"Uh uh man man'll search the whole planet looking for what Try to conquer all So what To all my ****** with they Kids that love they kids man All the daddies out there To all the ****** that died tryin'a figure out what's what Tryin'a be the biggest of the big you know Yeah yeah
Ladies forgive us Gotta forgive us For we know not what We do Breakin' hearts leavin' the crib buggin' out and **** Just man man
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