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 niggas 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 motherfuckin' hoodlum
They judged us thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
Got a little older and now I see
Young niggas 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 being
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
Ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa
I know a girl her boyfriend was a fugitive
She's intuitive be on some stupid shit
She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
Now he away doin' numbers
Now she gay with her lover
How many niggas 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 p**e 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 Hitler while the world's in a twister
N**a 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 niggas with they
Kids that love they kids man
All the daddies out there
To all the niggas 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
Shit
Just man
man
