The Mindstraights - Five Fingers Of Funk

Kids are caught going the wrong way Mindstraights tapping you 
Worried in a flurry about the clout and kids capping you 
Only thirteen another dream seems unreachable 
Reality's a salary morality's unreachable 
Look at his environment what stimulates learning 
A look in a book or real cash money earning 
Yearning for a fast break papes and all that 
Hard work is for jerks what kind of life do you call that? 
He takes a look around the neighborhood is good and run down 
Last night a kid got gunned down 'cause there's money after sundown 
Wants to get his share so he dares to take a bold step 
Knowing where he's going showing a grill a right and a cold left 
He doesn't need school to act a fool and create cash 
Getting juice like Tropicana clocking a grand and a fan with each 
flash 
And smoke from the flamer gaining game at a high rate 
Now he spends all his time on a climb to a high state 
The Mindstraights 
A brief look around reveals the reason for the Mindstraights 
Conditioned by living a life that's given to find papes 
The only indication of respect success happiness 
And if they don't find that they find stress 
The quest for the look pollutes the young mind quick 
"I've got a target on my back and a gun on my hip" 
There's no peel under my heel and I'm not trying to slip 
He's straight fighting tooth and nail just to get that grip 
He came equipped and flipped on the next one 
Gun to face laying waste or just to test one 
Run scadaddle or battle and show some heart kid 
Or come to where I live and get torn apart quick 
It takes just a second of thought to get a knot or shot 
Or get caught by a rock or be taught 
The rules of respect step the hard not the kind way 
He's baffled when he'