[00:02.87]I gotta few things I wanna ask the Lord
[00:04.93]Why my people gotta be so poor, feel me
[00:07.49]And why's it so rough when you're young and black
[00:09.92]They say you go to jail or get strung on crack
[00:12.42]Why the girl have a baby she was twelve years old
[00:14.80]Ask the state why the cell's gotta be so cold
[00:17.22]And why these niggas here with so many years
[00:19.47]Whole family in court crying so many tears
[00:21.91]Can you picture us living with hope
[00:23.84]When the same ones hanging us is giving us dope
[00:27.02]Shit, it's hard to get by
[00:29.08]I pray to God it's still hard to get by
[00:32.39]Just wanna hold my son
[00:34.39]But I can't leave my house until I load my gun
[00:37.20]I gotta grab my sword
[00:38.83]And when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord
[00:41.75]Like, why we dying from AIDS
[00:44.45]And why on TV it's aight to be gay
[00:46.63]Aint that sorta like my gun got the right to be waved
[00:49.19]If I could sit back and watch a whole cipher of slaves
[00:51.68]Ask my man where the blacks at
[00:53.43]Ask myself where the next Malcolm X at
[00:55.55]Is he makin Salat, or upstate like a ape in a box
[00:58.92]Am I a human or a fallen angel
[01:00.91]Got to pray by myself 'cause I'm out of angle
[01:03.22]I aint facin the east, tell the brothers I was shakin the beast
[01:06.41]Had the nine and the eight in the streets
[01:08.22]Open your eyes, stay wise, 'cause even Satan is deep
[01:11.15]I pray for a better living
[01:12.96]Even though I think I'm better dying
[01:15.39]Why, 'cause I'd rather hear the angels singing
[01:17.95]Why, and I don't wanna hear my people crying, feel me black
[01:21.38]We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more
[01:25.57]Black woman Listen
[01:26.88]You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more
[01:30.06]Black child Listen
[01:31.67]We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all
[01:34.86]Devil man Listen
[01:36.55]We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all
[01:39.79]Black man Listen
[01:40.95]'Bout to be on some clever shit
[01:43.45]I gotta think if the president is prejudice
[01:45.51]And that's another eight years down
[01:47.94]The 500 year warn, that's a eight year round
[01:50.25]I don't really mean to sweat it
[01:52.31]But the war been on before they came on your TV and settle
[01:55.36]They don't need lead to shoot ya
[01:57.61]Why would a man make a computer to head the future
[02:00.05]I think about it in a weed session
[02:02.67]They said better technology, all I see is regressin
[02:05.53]Blew up our buildings in fact
[02:07.16]But if they live under the sun then them children is black
[02:09.97]'fore the devil get more time I'd rather see the world cease
[02:13.09]Hit the afterlife of world peace
[02:14.76]Where black men don't die, the women don't cry
[02:17.02]And the little kids get provided for and play in the sky, what
[02:20.08]We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more
[02:23.75]Black woman Listen
[02:24.63]You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more
[02:28.62]Black child Listen
[02:29.81]We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all
[02:33.11]Devil man Listen
[02:34.54]We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all
[02:38.41]Black man Listen