| Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the
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| hood
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| Uh Uh, yeah, uh yeah yeah this your boy chingaling man, need to talk to the
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| world real quick, talk to em man, you know we got a lot of problems going on in
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| the inner city, in the ghetto, in the hood, they ain’t hearin you,
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| ain’t nobody touchin on, democrats, republicans, all those folks,
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| you know they don’t care what’s going on in the ghetto anyway
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| Errday I wake up with a regular mentality, but I’m a target on the street and
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| that’s just reality, cats in the ghetto ain’t never had a high salary,
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| except makin deals and selling blow in the alley, see the system was made for
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| us to fail, look at the jails, overpopulated with mexicans and young black
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| males, I ain’t tellin the tale, so we choose heaven or hell, don’t care about
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| letters from school, we’d rather get street mail, I been a witness to some
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| murders snitchin I do without it, but then I wonder why the damn police don’t
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| do nothing about it, go to the unemployment office, hell yeah it’s crowded,
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| our hoods takin wrong turns now it’s time to reroute it, I know a lil dude 13,
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| carry a burner dropped out of school, teacher said he wasn’t a fast learner,
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| sometimes I wonder in 20 years I wonder where we gon be, when I say we,
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| I mean my black community, ya digg
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| They don’t know, how it feels to hurt so long, cause they never walked in these
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| shoes, and they never had to cry these blues, how many men, turn their back on
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| us so long, always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through
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| Pardon my french but I don’t think we ready for a lady president,
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| it’s evident that it’s a mans world so that’s irrelevant, the system think we
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| all niggas and we not intellegent, but martin luther and malcolm taught me
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| before I’m heavensent, the girls havin kids and they still some kids,
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| poppin them out one after another like that’s what it is, it’s innocent cats
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| doin bizz, they just tryin to life, and the police don’t even know if the crime
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| they did, it’s got my brain in a twist, so I’m twistin a; |
| eaf, on my balcony
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| smokin and drinkin trying to see some relief, if I can change our neighborhoods
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| I would, put that on me, this world messed up, and that stevie wonder can see,
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| so to my dogs locked down set ya mind free, cause you and I don’t even believe
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| you can get your degree, sometimes I wonder in 20 years where we gon be,
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| and when I say we I mean my black community, let’s go
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| They don’t know, how it feels to hurt so long, cause they never walked in these
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| shoes, and they never had to cry these blues, how many men, turn their back on
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| us so long, always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through
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| I twist the cap off the bottle, take a sip and see tomorrow, like pac,
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| wash away the sorrow while police hit the block, I be up all night,
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| askin god for the truth, he told me thinking translated in my own words in the
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| booth, try to reach the youth, cause that’s what matters today, I’m ain’t too
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| religious but I get on my knees and pray, sometimes I wonder in 20 years where
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| we gon be, I ain’t gotta wonder no more, my people rollin with me, yeah
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| They don’t know, how it feels to hurt so long, cause they never walked in these
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| shoes, and they never had to cry these blues, how many men, turn their back on
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| us so long, always say what they gon do, but they never seem to come through
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| Yeah, they’ll never come through wo oh oh, they don’t know about this thing |