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I gotta few things I wanna ask the Lord |
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Why my people gotta be so poor, feel me |
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And why's it so rough when you're young and black |
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They say you go to jail or get strung on crack |
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Why the girl have a baby she was twelve years old |
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Ask the state why the cell's gotta be so cold |
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And why these niggas here with so many years |
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Whole family in court crying so many tears |
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Can you picture us living with hope |
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When the same ones hanging us is giving us dope |
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Shit, it's hard to get by |
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I pray to God it's still hard to get by |
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Just wanna hold my son |
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But I can't leave my house until I load my gun |
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I gotta grab my sword |
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And when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord |
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Like, why we dying from AIDS |
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And why on TV it's aight to be gay |
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Aint that sorta like my gun got the right to be waved |
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If I could sit back and watch a whole cipher of slaves |
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Ask my man where the blacks at |
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Ask myself where the next Malcolm X at |
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Is he makin Salat, or upstate like a ape in a box |
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Am I a human or a fallen angel |
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Got to pray by myself 'cause I'm out of angle |
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I aint facin the east, tell the brothers I was shakin the beast |
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Had the nine and the eight in the streets |
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Open your eyes, stay wise, 'cause even Satan is deep |
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I pray for a better living |
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Even though I think I'm better dying |
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Why, 'cause I'd rather hear the angels singing |
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Why, and I don't wanna hear my people crying, feel me black |
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We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more |
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Black woman Listen |
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You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more |
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Black child Listen |
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We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all |
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Devil man Listen |
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We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all |
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Black man Listen |
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'Bout to be on some clever shit |
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I gotta think if the president is prejudice |
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And that's another eight years down |
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The 500 year warn, that's a eight year round |
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I don't really mean to sweat it |
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But the war been on before they came on your TV and settle |
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They don't need lead to shoot ya |
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Why would a man make a computer to head the future |
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I think about it in a weed session |
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They said better technology, all I see is regressin |
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Blew up our buildings in fact |
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But if they live under the sun then them children is black |
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'fore the devil get more time I'd rather see the world cease |
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Hit the afterlife of world peace |
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Where black men don't die, the women don't cry |
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And the little kids get provided for and play in the sky, what |
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We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more |
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Black woman Listen |
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You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more |
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Black child Listen |
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We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all |
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Devil man Listen |
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We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all |
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Black man Listen |