(with 9th Wonder
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feat. Lisa Ivey)
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[Rick Sanchez - taken from a CNN interview regarding Derrion Albert:]
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But what is that? I-I just gotta ask you though
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Because at that moment (yeah...) where you have that brick
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Or where you have th-that that two-by-four
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And you're bus- about to bust the skull
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Of a fellow human being open with it
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And you're about to crush him or kill him or stomp him or kick him
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When he's on the ground bleeding already
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SOMETHING'S gotta be real WRONG...
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[Chorus: Lisa Ivey (David Banner)]
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If you look at all the hurt, look at all the pain
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People are DYYYYING and it's SUCH a shaaaame...
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it)
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it)
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They know something's wrong (But won't nobody say it)
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(I'll put it in a record, but will anybody play it?)
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[David Banner:]
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In Chi-Town, D. Albert's laying on the ground
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His life bleeds away while other folks stand around
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We gangstas, but we cain't stop the pain in our town
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I watched it on the net and that moment was profound
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The OG'z gotta put the BG'z in check
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I'm tryna do sum'hin but I need y'all help
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We started gangbangin to protect ourself
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Now it's power and respect to kill everything for wealth (wealth)
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.. and it's the same thing in rap
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You tell the kids to stay hood and you ain't even in the trap
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He ain't never sell dope, he ain't never did time
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And if you did, why would you want them to walk the same lines? (YEA-AH!)
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It's like we travel back in time
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Took the whip with the crack, now it's black-on-black crime
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Yeah, we put our cities on the map
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But they call it the trap because most hoods are just that - a trap!
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YEH!
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[Chorus]
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[David Banner:]
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Mr. President, you know that some people still racist?
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Jimmy Carter said it, you didn't have to underplay it
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Huh, but I guess you got a plan
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Police is still killin our young black man
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Ah, I meant young black men
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It's less of us in college and more us in the pen (in the pen)
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Huh, I guess it's the devil's den
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You ain't trippin, you aight, it's more of our friends
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That's dyin in these streets, so I'm a die over this beat
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If I die off in these streets, I'm a let the blood leak
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Whisper, "God forgive me" - Then bury me in the creeks of Mississippi
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And I'm a take the whole world with me like..
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[Chorus]
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[David Banner:]
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Women playin men but why do men play women?
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I saw one in UGG boots and real tight denims
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Man, he had Apple Bottoms on
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So I walked over to him and I asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
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He said, "What's wrong with you?!
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Ain't nothin wrong with me, this is the life that I choose
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This is what I do" So I said, "What's the use?
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But if it's man on man, how the hell we reproduce?"
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Ah, test tube baby
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He said, "Uh, David Banner, I remember when he raped me
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Take me to the bed, binded both legs
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I blanked out and woke up in a pool of red
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Ah, that changed my whole world
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Like that's my stepdad, thought, that I shoulda been a girl"
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Man, this is more than a song
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Our kids are dyin fast, there I said it, somethin's wrong
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YEH!
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[Rick Sanchez:]
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I agree with you. I think there are people out there
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Who could possibly, very well be unsalvageable
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And maybe we as a society started- need to start treating them
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As if they are, just that - unsalvageable. [echoes]
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[David Banner:]
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That's a lie, we gon' save our kids!
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Something Is Wrong
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David Banner |