[00:01.08]Artist：obie trice
[00:01.77]Songs Title：wake up
[00:02.58]They say he was a monster from birth, so
[00:04.32]**** it, I'll just a lean warn-os them hoes
[00:05.89]I suppose O took on the street life
[00:07.51]Even though my mother told me I could be otherwise
[00:09.38]Wasn't the school type, I was too cool
[00:12.00]My agenda wasn't general education, nigga
[00:15.94]Generalizing Obie's expectations
[00:18.20]It was like, a cucoo in twenty-twos
[00:20.81]Bad news my nigga, pass the brew
[00:22.93]Cause in a week we be pouring a glass for you
[00:26.06]So rapidly homies become causualties
[00:27.06]We was just playing Madden
[00:28.87]Now a nigga sad for his family, that's how it happens
[00:33.06]Dudes get blasted, another casket
[00:35.62]Another child becomes a fatherless bastard
[00:38.37]Make a nigga wanna grab this rachet
[00:41.05]It's so tragic, and Obie can't get past it
[00:43.36]And you wonder why a nigga'll flash it
[00:45.44]Just to, show these demons that I ain't having it
[00:48.00]Put 'em beneathe the grass in a flash
[00:49.99]Homie I'm from the craft
[00:51.79]And to make it where I'm at, that's called Soldierism
[00:54.42]Real niggaz notice em, they wanna flow with 'em
[00:57.98]Wanna do major shows with 'em
[01:01.97]Get the **** out the ghetto wit 'em
[01:03.84]Heavy metal, leave a nigga twisted, don't fret
[01:06.09]This is the set we live in
[01:08.02]But I ain't crying or whining about my enviornment
[01:09.96]Even though black folk is dying constant
[01:13.95]Niggaz'll shoot you unconscious
[01:17.20]Wit no conscience, until you lose conscience
[01:20.25]Conscious, and pompous white folk think I'm just rhyming
[01:24.12]Just designing lines, just for the sake of shining
[01:27.55]Like I just speak violent applying to the business I'm in
[01:31.55]Rewind and find him in a dirty ass hood with no sight of climbing
[01:35.80]Moving on up was just The Jeffersons
[01:37.61]Rest of us watching the tube got less then them
[01:41.42]So why you vexing him? Why you stretching him out?
[01:43.77]He got the weapon all because his whereabouts
[01:45.58]Born and raised, mental slaves
[01:47.14]And I don't see change before I'm seeing the grave
[01:51.13]All I see is my homies corpse decay
[01:53.50]Crying at his wake, can't recognize his face
[01:55.56]Face it, you not identifying with me
[01:58.37]My identity distorts ya visibility
[01:59.61]So you can't see me, peep what he's achieving
[02:03.73]You recieve information from TV
[02:07.35]I'm in the hood, I live it you read about it
[02:09.98]Rest in peace Peezy
[02:10.91]Please believe Obie eyes've seen The Wire
[02:13.84]Prior to what you seeing on the screen
[02:16.08]I done been in and out of the bing
[02:18.27]Lost niggaz to unfortunate things
[02:19.27]That's why, praise the Lord I'm still on the scene
[02:23.54]Praise the Creator who made human beings
[02:26.04]Just for creating a nigga like me
[02:28.42]A nigga that put the umph in G, yeah
[02:30.74]Wake up
[02:32.30]I try to reach out but you won't
[02:34.10]Wake up
[02:34.60]My brothers and sisters, we got to
[02:36.79]Wake up
[02:37.22]'Fore you stuck in the system, and then ya
[02:39.03]Wake up
[02:39.35]Reality hits ya, before you can
[02:41.03]Wake up