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But what is that? I-I just gotta ask you though |
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Because at that moment (yeah...) where you have that brick |
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Or where you have th-that that two-by-four |
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And you're bus- about to bust the skull |
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Of a fellow human being open with it |
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And you're about to crush him or kill him or stomp him or kick him |
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When he's on the ground bleeding already |
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SOMETHING'S gotta be real WRONG... |
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[Chorus: Lisa Ivey (David Banner)] |
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If you look at all the hurt, look at all the pain |
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People are DYYYYING and it's SUCH a shaaaame... |
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it) |
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it) |
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it) |
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(I'll put it in a record, but will anybody play it?) |
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[David Banner:] |
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In Chi-Town, D. Albert's laying on the ground |
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His life bleeds away while other folks stand around |
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We gangstas, but we cain't stop the pain in our town |
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I watched it on the net and that moment was profound |
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The OG'z gotta put the BG'z in check |
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I'm tryna do sum'hin but I need y'all help |
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We started gangbangin to protect ourself |
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Now it's power and respect to kill everything for wealth (wealth) |
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.. and it's the same thing in rap |
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You tell the kids to stay hood and you ain't even in the trap |
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He ain't never sell dope, he ain't never did time |
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And if you did, why would you want them to walk the same lines? (YEA-AH!) |
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It's like we travel back in time |
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Took the whip with the crack, now it's black-on-black crime |
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Yeah, we put our cities on the map |
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But they call it the trap because most hoods are just that - a trap! |
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YEH! |
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[Chorus] |
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[David Banner:] |
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Mr. President, you know that some people still racist? |
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Jimmy Carter said it, you didn't have to underplay it |
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Huh, but I guess you got a plan |
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Police is still killin our young black man |
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Ah, I meant young black men |
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It's less of us in college and more us in the pen (in the pen) |
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Huh, I guess it's the devil's den |
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You ain't trippin, you aight, it's more of our friends |
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That's dyin in these streets, so I'm a die over this beat |
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If I die off in these streets, I'm a let the blood leak |
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Whisper, "God forgive me" - Then bury me in the creeks of Mississippi |
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And I'm a take the whole world with me like.. |
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[Chorus] |
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[David Banner:] |
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Women playin men but why do men play women? |
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I saw one in UGG boots and real tight denims |
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Man, he had Apple Bottoms on |
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So I walked over to him and I asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong?" |
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He said, "What's wrong with you?! |
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Ain't nothin wrong with me, this is the life that I choose |
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This is what I do" So I said, "What's the use? |
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But if it's man on man, how the hell we reproduce?" |
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Ah, test tube baby |
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He said, "Uh, David Banner, I remember when he raped me |
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Take me to the bed, binded both legs |
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I blanked out and woke up in a pool of red |
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Ah, that changed my whole world |
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Like that's my stepdad, thought, that I shoulda been a girl" |
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Man, this is more than a song |
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Our kids are dyin fast, there I said it, somethin's wrong |
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YEH! |
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[Rick Sanchez:] |
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I agree with you. I think there are people out there |
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Who could possibly, very well be unsalvageable |
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And maybe we as a society started- need to start treating them |
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As if they are, just that - unsalvageable. [echoes] |
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[David Banner:] |
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That's a lie, we gon' save our kids! |
