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Artist Styles P
Album A Gangster and a Gentleman

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[00:02.87] I gotta few things I wanna ask the Lord
[00:04.93] Why my people gotta be so poor, feel me
[00:07.49] And why's it so rough when you're young and black
[00:09.92] They say you go to jail or get strung on crack
[00:12.42] Why the girl have a baby she was twelve years old
[00:14.80] Ask the state why the cell's gotta be so cold
[00:17.22] And why these niggas here with so many years
[00:19.47] Whole family in court crying so many tears
[00:21.91] Can you picture us living with hope
[00:23.84] When the same ones hanging us is giving us dope
[00:27.02] Shit, it's hard to get by
[00:29.08] I pray to God it's still hard to get by
[00:32.39] Just wanna hold my son
[00:34.39] But I can't leave my house until I load my gun
[00:37.20] I gotta grab my sword
[00:38.83] And when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord
[00:41.75] Like, why we dying from AIDS
[00:44.45] And why on TV it's aight to be gay
[00:46.63] Aint that sorta like my gun got the right to be waved
[00:49.19] If I could sit back and watch a whole cipher of slaves
[00:51.68] Ask my man where the blacks at
[00:53.43] Ask myself where the next Malcolm X at
[00:55.55] Is he makin Salat, or upstate like a ape in a box
[00:58.92] Am I a human or a fallen angel
[01:00.91] Got to pray by myself 'cause I'm out of angle
[01:03.22] I aint facin the east, tell the brothers I was shakin the beast
[01:06.41] Had the nine and the eight in the streets
[01:08.22] Open your eyes, stay wise, 'cause even Satan is deep
[01:11.15] I pray for a better living
[01:12.96] Even though I think I'm better dying
[01:15.39] Why, 'cause I'd rather hear the angels singing
[01:17.95] Why, and I don't wanna hear my people crying, feel me black
[01:21.38] We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more
[01:25.57] Black woman Listen
[01:26.88] You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more
[01:30.06] Black child Listen
[01:31.67] We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all
[01:34.86] Devil man Listen
[01:36.55] We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all
[01:39.79] Black man Listen
[01:40.95] 'Bout to be on some clever shit
[01:43.45] I gotta think if the president is prejudice
[01:45.51] And that's another eight years down
[01:47.94] The 500 year warn, that's a eight year round
[01:50.25] I don't really mean to sweat it
[01:52.31] But the war been on before they came on your TV and settle
[01:55.36] They don't need lead to shoot ya
[01:57.61] Why would a man make a computer to head the future
[02:00.05] I think about it in a weed session
[02:02.67] They said better technology, all I see is regressin
[02:05.53] Blew up our buildings in fact
[02:07.16] But if they live under the sun then them children is black
[02:09.97] 'fore the devil get more time I'd rather see the world cease
[02:13.09] Hit the afterlife of world peace
[02:14.76] Where black men don't die, the women don't cry
[02:17.02] And the little kids get provided for and play in the sky, what
[02:20.08] We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more
[02:23.75] Black woman Listen
[02:24.63] You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more
[02:28.62] Black child Listen
[02:29.81] We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all
[02:33.11] Devil man Listen
[02:34.54] We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all
[02:38.41] Black man Listen