[00:05.05]I see people hating other people
[00:08.61]Tell me what's the reason
[00:11.86]That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
[00:18.43]What's the reason
[00:19.49]
[00:20.30]By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
[00:22.30]If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'
[00:24.24]Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one
[00:26.43]By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment
[00:29.30]And we die then  so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
[00:33.24]Watchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high man
[00:36.05]I'm just a young boy  snot nose  hair nappy
[00:38.80]Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
[00:41.12]So I would go to school and try to get good grades
[00:43.49]Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
[00:46.43]So she cussed them  said "My son ain't no motherf**kin' hoodlum"
[00:48.99]They judged us  thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
[00:51.93]Got a little older and now I see
[00:53.99]Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)
[00:57.30]
[00:58.74]I see people hating other people
[01:03.30]Tell me what's the reason
[01:07.36]That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
[01:12.12]What's the reason
[01:14.30]For these wars we're fighting with each other
[01:19.11]Season after season
[01:22.30]When you're workin' hard  but there ain't nothing comin'
[01:27.43]What's the reason
[01:28.31]
[01:29.05]Uh  picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
[01:32.80]She never had it  it's not hers to begin with
[01:35.06]She gives it breakfast  baths and dinners
[01:36.56]Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on
[01:41.37]Ain't had a good meal in so long  but so long as mommy's a maid
[01:44.87]Cookin' and cleanin'  she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
[01:49.18]Where's my daddy  who's my daddy  have you seen him
[01:51.74]I could imagine them askin'  what type of human be-ing
[01:54.24]Could leave his family  go back to the Carribean
[01:57.12]Was he locked up  shot up  does he have freedom
[01:59.68]Mom said wipe your tears  keep readin'
[02:01.74]But daddy's somewhere  spirit broken  feelin' defeated
[02:04.49]A man feels he has to conquer all
[02:06.93]The world is his oyster  his pearl so y'all know
[02:09.12]
[02:10.68]I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace
[02:16.81]'Cause this world keeps spinning  yet still I wonder what's the reason
[02:24.24]
[02:25.05]I see people hating other people
[02:29.68]Tell me what's the reason
[02:32.80]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'
[02:38.24]What's the reason
[02:41.06]Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa
[02:41.37]
[02:42.18]I know a girl  her boyfriend was a fugitive
[02:43.80]She's intuitive  be on some stupid shit
[02:46.18]She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
[02:48.62]Now he away doin' numbers  now she gay with her lover
[02:51.18]How many niggaz gon' die this summer
[02:54.00]I pump life in my music  but still life is a wonder
[02:56.93]There's a officer in a squad car  he's a prostitute serial killer
[03:00.87]It's odd  huh  'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife
[03:04.75]He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night
[03:07.31]Little bad ass bastard  lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
[03:10.49]In her pad while she slept
[03:12.49]They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister
[03:16.68]Nigga  what you expect  Imagine what's next
[03:20.62]
[03:21.43]I see people hating other people
[03:23.93]Tell me what's the reason
[03:27.12]That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
[03:33.19]What's the reason
[03:36.69]For these wars we're fighting with each other
[03:39.12]Season after season
[03:42.62]When you're workin' hard  but there ain't nothing comin'
[03:47.75]What's the reason
[03:49.94]
[03:51.50]"Uh  uh  man  man'll search the whole planet  looking for what
[03:57.17]Try to conquer all  So what  To all my niggaz with they
[04:02.67]Kids that love they kids  man  All the daddies out there
[04:07.10]To all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's what
[04:11.29]Tryin'a be the biggest of the big  you know  Yeah  yeah
[04:16.60]
[04:17.42]Ladies forgive us  Gotta forgive us  For we know not what
[04:22.41]We do  Breakin' hearts  leavin' the crib  buggin' out and
[04:26.79]Shit  Just man    man