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[00:03.01]I see people hating other people
[00:07.62]Tell me what's the reason
[00:10.99]That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
[00:16.17]What's the reason?
[00:18.43]By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
[00:20.84]If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'
[00:23.46]Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm 21
[00:25.71]But by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment
[00:28.72]And we die then, so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
[00:32.24]Watchin' them older niggas pass pot and they high, man
[00:34.90]I'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappy
[00:37.44]Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
[00:40.13]So I would go to school and try to get good grades
[00:42.57]Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
[00:45.22]So she cussed them, said, "My son ain't no motherfuckin' hoodlum"
[00:47.84]They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
[00:50.62]Got a little older and now I see
[00:52.94]Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be
[00:57.81]I see people hating other people
[01:02.35]Tell me what's the reason
[01:05.59]That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
[01:10.90]What's the reason?
[01:13.49]For these wars we're fighting with each other
[01:17.99]Season after season
[01:21.36]When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
[01:26.55]What's the reason?
[01:26.99]Uh, picture a black nanny and a baby
[01:29.45]In a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
[01:31.21]She never had it, it's not her's to begin with
[01:33.99]She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners
[01:35.95]Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home
[01:39.23]With no phone on, ain't had a good meal in so long
[01:42.02]But so long as mommy's a maid
[01:44.35]Cookin' and cleanin', she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
[01:48.28]Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him?
[01:50.45]I could imagine them askin', what type of human being
[01:53.49]Could leave his family, go back to the Carribean?
[01:56.15]Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom?
[01:58.74]Mommy said, "Wipe your tears, keep readin'"
[02:00.99]But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feelin' defeated
[02:03.89]A man feels he has to conquer all
[02:06.16]The world is his oyster, his pearl, so y'all know
[02:08.24]No, I can't find no reason
[02:12.71]Why we can't all live in peace
[02:16.04]'Cause this world keeps spinning
[02:18.66]Yet still I'm wondering what's the reason
[02:23.85]I see people hating other people
[02:28.35]Tell me what's the reason
[02:31.61]When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothin' comin'
[02:36.87]What's the reason?
[02:40.21]I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitive
[02:42.69]She's intuitive, be on some stupid shit
[02:45.47]She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
[02:47.38]Now he away doin' numbers, now she gay with her lover
[02:50.67]How many niggas gon' die this summer?
[02:52.62]I pump life in my music, but still life is a wonder
[02:56.02]There's a officer in a squad car, he's a prostitute serial killer
[02:59.97]It's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife
[03:03.26]He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night
[03:06.55]Little bad ass bastard, lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
[03:09.66]In her pad while she slept
[03:11.51]They said, "Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister"
[03:14.97]Nigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next
[03:18.58]I see people hating other people
[03:23.07]Tell me what's the reason
[03:26.35]That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
[03:31.54]What's the reason?
[03:34.05]For these wars we're fighting with each other
[03:38.61]Season after season
[03:42.08]When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
[03:47.14]What's the reason?
[03:47.70]Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet
[03:54.84]Looking for what, tryin' to conquer all
[03:58.49]So what? To all my niggas with they kids
[04:01.81]That love they kids, man, all the daddies out there
[04:06.07]To all the niggas that died tryin' to figure out what's what
[04:10.46]Tryin' to be the biggest of the big, you know
[04:13.57]Yeah, yeah, ladies forgive us
[04:18.12]Gotta forgive us for we know not what we do
[04:22.25]Breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib, buggin' out and shit
[04:26.33]Just man, man
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