I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
What's the reason

By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'
Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one
By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment
And we die then  so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
Watchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high man
I'm just a young boy  snot nose  hair nappy
Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
So I would go to school and try to get good grades
Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
So she cussed them  said "My son ain't no motherf**kin' hoodlum"
They judged us  thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
Got a little older and now I see
Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
What's the reason
For these wars we're fighting with each other
Season after season
When you're workin' hard  but there ain't nothing comin'
What's the reason

Uh  picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
She never had it  it's not hers to begin with
She gives it breakfast  baths and dinners
Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on
Ain't had a good meal in so long  but so long as mommy's a maid
Cookin' and cleanin'  she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
Where's my daddy  who's my daddy  have you seen him
I could imagine them askin'  what type of human be-ing
Could leave his family  go back to the Carribean
Was he locked up  shot up  does he have freedom
Mom said wipe your tears  keep readin'
But daddy's somewhere  spirit broken  feelin' defeated
A man feels he has to conquer all
The world is his oyster  his pearl so y'all know

I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace
'Cause this world keeps spinning  yet still I wonder what's the reason

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'
What's the reason
Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa

I know a girl  her boyfriend was a fugitive
She's intuitive  be on some stupid shit
She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
Now he away doin' numbers  now she gay with her lover
How many niggaz gon' die this summer
I pump life in my music  but still life is a wonder
There's a officer in a squad car  he's a prostitute serial killer
It's odd  huh  'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife
He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night
Little bad ass bastard  lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
In her pad while she slept
They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister
Nigga  what you expect  Imagine what's next

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
That your kid is hungry  you ain't got no money
What's the reason
For these wars we're fighting with each other
Season after season
When you're workin' hard  but there ain't nothing comin'
What's the reason

"Uh  uh  man  man'll search the whole planet  looking for what
Try to conquer all  So what  To all my niggaz with they
Kids that love they kids  man  All the daddies out there
To all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's what
Tryin'a be the biggest of the big  you know  Yeah  yeah

Ladies forgive us  Gotta forgive us  For we know not what
We do  Breakin' hearts  leavin' the crib  buggin' out and
Shit  Just man    man