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[00:01.92]Baby, you understand me now
[00:10.69]If sometimes you see that I'm mad
[00:17.46]Don't you know no one alive can always be an angel?
[00:22.92]When everything goes wrong you see some bad
[00:28.83]But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
[00:30.45]Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[00:42.70]What's understood ain't gotta be explained
[00:45.31]But you don't understand me, so let me explain
[00:48.34]Stood in the heat, the flame
[00:51.80]The snow
[00:52.64]Please slow
[00:53.72]Down hurricane
[00:55.07]The wind blow
[00:56.41]My dreads swang
[00:58.23]He had hair like wool, like Wayne
[01:01.52]Dropping ashes in the Bible
[01:04.03]I shake 'em out
[01:05.21]And they fall on the rifle
[01:07.34]Scary
[01:08.48]Hail Mary
[01:09.30]No tale-fairy
[01:10.68]All real, very extraordinary
[01:13.48]Perry Mason facin' the barrel if he tattle
[01:16.65]My God is my judge -- no gown, no gavel
[01:19.74]A hound, a rebel
[01:21.49]Down to battle
[01:23.24]Now or never
[01:24.61]Or whenever
[01:26.49]And the F for --
[01:27.85]Fucking fantastic
[01:28.62]Fuck if you agree
[01:29.42]I'm bright, but I don't give a fuck if you see me
[01:31.84]But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
[01:37.78]Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[01:44.74]Uhh, what's understood ain't gotta be explained
[01:47.88]So for those who understand, meet Dwayne
[01:51.14]For eight and a half months I gave Miss Cita pain
[01:54.44]Now it's Young Money, baby, keep the change
[01:57.59]My momma say "Fuck em!", and we the same
[02:00.19]So hello motherfucker, you got some sheets to change
[02:04.15]And ain't it funny how people change like Easter Sunday
[02:08.64]You know church fit, then outfit
[02:09.92]Bright pink and green chest look house-lit
[02:11.74]Bright pinky rings, but that ain't about this
[02:14.96]What you 'bout, bitch?
[02:17.25]Excuse my French emotion and my passion
[02:19.45]But I wear my heart on my sleeve like it's the new fashion
[02:22.80]What are you askin?
[02:24.36]If I don't have the answer
[02:25.81]It's probably on the web, like I'm a damn tarantula
[02:29.59]But I know you don't understand
[02:32.47]Cause you thought Little Wayne was Weezy
[02:33.08]But Weezy is Wayne
[02:34.77]But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
[02:47.82]Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[02:49.52]I was watchin' TV the other day, right?
[02:54.97]Got this white guy on there talking 'bout black guys
[02:59.86]Talking about how young black guys are targeted
[03:07.64]Targeted by who? America
[03:13.86]You see, one in every one hundred Americans are locked up
[03:18.51]One in every nine Black Americans are locked up
[03:25.56]And see what the White guy was trying to stress was that
[03:28.28]The money that we spend on sending a motherfucker to jail
[03:35.36]A young motherfucker to jail
[03:37.85]Would be less to send his or her young ass to college
[03:46.33]See, and another thing the White guy was stressing was that
[03:52.84]Our jails are populated with drug dealers
[03:53.70]You know, crack cocaine? Yeah, stuff like that
[03:58.78]Meaning, due to the laws we have on crack cocaine
[04:03.34]And regular cocaine
[04:04.79]The police are... only
[04:10.33]I don't want to say only right, but shit
[04:12.58]Only logic by riding around in the hood all day
[04:17.01]And not in the suburbs, because
[04:19.87]Crack cocaine is mostly found in the hood
[04:23.75]And um, you know the other thing is mostly found
[04:28.66]You know where I'm going
[04:31.62]But why bring a motherfucka to jail
[04:33.25]If it's not gonna stand up, in court
[04:35.63]Because this drug ain't that drug
[04:39.12]You know, level three, level four drug, shit like that
[04:41.94]Mhmm. I guess it's all a misunderstanding
[04:46.60]And um, I sit back and think, well shit, us young motherfuckers
[04:50.10]You know, that one in every nine
[04:53.51]We probably only selling the crack cocaine
[04:56.42]Just because we in the hood
[04:59.03]And it's not like the suburbs
[05:01.89]We don't have the things that you have
[05:04.08]Why? I really don't want to know the answer
[05:08.78]I guess we just misunderstood huh? Yeah
[05:17.25]You know we don't have room in the jail
[05:22.61]Now for the real motherfuckers, the real criminals, you know
[05:25.03]Sex offenders, rapists, serial killers, shit like that
[05:31.54]Oh, don't get scared, don't get scared
[05:33.56]I know you saw one them sex offender papers
[05:36.79]Don't trip, he live right on the end of your block, mmmhmm
[05:40.18]Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you
[05:44.40]Sex offender, on the level 3 drug
[05:46.29]Convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out
[05:49.56]And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got
[05:53.84]Yeah, well you know what? (coughing)
[06:00.19]Don't stop the track (that's the good weed)
[06:04.89]You know what, I have a fucking daughter
[06:05.73]You understand me?
[06:09.80]And, why the fuck would you bring my neighbor
[06:12.56]To jail just because the reason why he live next door to me
[06:15.79]Ain't the reason why I live next door to him
[06:17.47]Meanin', he didn't rap his way to my fuckin neighborhood
[06:24.99]He sold crack cocaine to get to my neighborhood
[06:29.14]You move him out, bring him to jail for life
[06:34.10]And then you move in a sex offender, heh heh heh
[06:37.61]They giving me a paper, heh heh hah
[06:39.69]Is that a misunderstanding, cause I don't understand it
[06:44.21]Another thing, let me take my glasses off
[06:49.22]Cause I want to see the reaction on the faces when I say this
[06:54.70]Uhh, Mr. Al Sharpton; here's why I don't respect you
[07:00.73]And nobody like you, hmm hmm, see
[07:06.25]You're the type that gets off on gettin on other people, heh hehe
[07:13.50]That's not good, no homo
[07:16.52]And rather unhuman I should say
[07:17.82]I mean, given the fact that humanity
[07:21.15]Well, good humanity, rather
[07:22.82]To me, is helpin one another, no matter your color or race
[07:26.66]But this guy, and people like him
[07:28.90]They'd rather speculate before they informate
[07:31.99]If that's a word, heh heh
[07:35.95]You know, 'spect before check, anyway
[07:39.68]Mean that, I much rather you talk to me first and see if you
[07:44.19]Can learn an opinion before you make one
[07:46.05]Just my thought of good humanity, Mr. Sharpton (heh heh)
[07:49.34]Hold on, I ain't finished wit' you man
[07:56.54]Gotta pluck the ashes, mhmm, hold on, um
[08:01.74]Mr. Sharpton, and anyone like you, you don't know me
[08:05.24]So, if you're not gonna try to, then what you say
[08:10.18]Or think about me, or whatever I do
[08:12.84]Is totally Casper the Friendly Ghost
[08:15.11]To me, and, it doesn't make you a good person to
[08:20.77]Criticize before you improvise
[08:23.22]Doesn't necessarily make you a bad person neither, but
[08:26.82]The characteristics fall heavily into bad sway, hahahh
[08:29.54]But, since I am human, I am good and bad as well
[08:32.76]But I try my hardest to stay good
[08:37.47]And some of the things I do and say may be bad
[08:40.50]Or just, not too good
[08:43.78]But I do try
[08:44.72]So with that said, I don't fault you
[08:46.62]I mean, you're only human
[08:49.08]Good or bad, but I also don't respect you
[08:52.59]And I don't care if that's good or bad, heh heh
[08:55.30]You see, you are no MLK, you are no Jesse Jackson
[09:00.70]You a nobody, to me
[09:05.46]You're just another Don King with a perm
[09:07.73]Just a little more political
[09:12.46]And that just means you're a little unhuman than us humans
[09:14.52]And now, let me be human by saying fuck Al Sharpton
[09:21.15]And anyone like him
[09:24.06]Fuck if you understand me
[09:26.48]I love being misunderstood
[09:28.57]Heheh, why?
[09:30.86]Cause I live in the suburbs, but I come from the hood
[09:34.27]Bring the hook in
[09:38.17]But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
[09:44.62]Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
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