[00:29.24]Sometimes words are enough to kill over
[00:31.43]Thanksgiving didn't give
[00:32.81]So what should I hope for
[00:34.62]I keep on looking for job
[00:36.49]But job seems not to like me
[00:37.93]What else my doors kick off the hedges
[00:39.56]Somebody just fill they Christmas list
[00:41.31]Off me and tha family
[00:42.93]And damn I just miss them
[00:44.49]Felt like I've been raped
[00:45.87]A figures been through my drawers
[00:47.24]Always read tha times in between tha black
[00:49.43]Spent my summers in that country
[00:51.12]So I consider myself a Jack
[00:52.49]Some left this world by putting bullets in they head
[00:54.68]But little Johnnie across the street
[00:55.99]hung hisself from his bunk-bed
[00:57.06]Had to go to court in tha mornin'
[00:59.12]Nothing hard about it
[01:01.18]My little partner was just scared
[01:03.50]How scared Gipp that scared
[01:06.00]When I was B-gee
[01:07.24]Used to think I couldn't be hit
[01:08.68]None of my homies carried guns
[01:10.12]All I had was a stick
[01:11.56]Coming out hard was the way from day one
[01:13.87]One of the smallest muthafuckers in the crew
[01:15.93]But you knew and feel the type of niggas that kill
[01:18.06]Be the ones that's out to prove something
[01:19.56]To them other niggers cause
[01:20.87]They already know the outcome
[01:22.00]What's going down at the party
[01:23.50]So many fine hoes nobody knows why
[01:26.18]We buck, I guess we up in a rut
[01:28.62]Looking for but at the same time
[01:30.12]Up in the Flame supporting girls up in the game
[01:32.37]Out to get a piece of what the system
[01:34.43]Has designed black folks to struggle for
[01:36.12]So I bust, so much to deal with
[01:38.06]Can't feel what's real from fake
[01:39.37]For my sake I stay close to home
[01:41.06]So them crackers don't take and
[01:42.43]Never give back to my hood
[01:43.93]In desperate need of change
[01:45.12]Be this way to
[01:46.00]We arrage it to be fit me
[01:47.81]Growing up on Sesame Street
[01:49.25]Can you feel, what I feel?
[01:51.31]Can you hear, what I hear?
[01:53.18]Can you see what I see?
[01:55.25]When ma feet hit the streets
[01:56.37]What chu know?
[01:58.12]What chu know?
[01:58.99]Can you feel, what I feel?
[02:01.62]Can you hear, what I hear?
[02:03.62]Can you see what I see?
[02:05.62]When ma feet hit the streets
[02:07.06]What chu know?
[02:07.56]What chu know?
[02:08.43]About Sesame Street?
[02:10.81]Georgia Power wants to put me in the dark
[02:12.74]But one spark
[02:13.62]I see Sammy streak to ma spot
[02:15.56]In this red Fred Sanford truck undercover
[02:17.68]But he geela folks fo da class "A" substances narcotics
[02:21.06]Ole shought stopping ask?
[02:22.49]Can be "shock-ca-locka"?
[02:23.06]Um to mad to be scared
[02:24.81]So for the price if you go it
[02:26.31]Like that to be the boss you gladly pay it
[02:28.31]An arm and a leg I'd be lying if I say I ain't
[02:31.37]Need no help, can't do it by myself
[02:33.18]It's raining sesame
[02:34.87]Cause it's only so much time left in this crazy world
[02:37.81]Mates in prison guards life with a hamma
[02:39.99]So excuse ma grammar
[02:41.50]Behind the walls of Atlanta, Federal Penn
[02:43.93]The tait on "Fred Stock" the cell blox wit no C.O.'s
[02:46.93]Equipped with radios
[02:47.75]The system is fraud and the security camera
[02:50.87]Now have we an eyeball on it yet
[02:53.24]The second stage denied
[02:54.37]I wonder if I get another trial
[02:58.43]Remember me from way back in the days
[03:00.87]Lived right around the corner from Benjamin Mays
[03:03.62]I'm amazed that we made it this far
[03:06.12]A po black family is all that we are
[03:08.62]Wishing upon a star
[03:09.68]For a trace of happiness
[03:10.87]My mama do her best but she ain't making no progresss
[03:13.81]Maybe it's a test that we all gotta pass
[03:16.43]My situations making me grow too fast
[03:18.18]13 and a half years old standing at the bus stop
[03:22.68]Alone in the cold on my way to be degraded
[03:26.56]For a fee to help get my family off this streeet called Sesame
[03:29.75]Can you feel, what I feel?
[03:32.00]Can you hear, what I hear?
[03:34.00]Can you see what I see?
[03:35.81]When ma feet hit the streets
[03:37.56]What chu know?
[03:38.44]What chu know?
[03:40.25]Can you feel, what I feel?
[03:41.62]Can you hear, what I hear?
[03:43.94]Can you see what I see?
[03:46.25]When ma feet hit the streets
[03:48.31]What chu know?
[03:49.12]What chu know?
[03:53.31]About Sesame Street?