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