[Intro - Anthony Hamilton]
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All that I've been given
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It's this pain that I be living (The Remix, The Remix)
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They got me in the system
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Why they gotta do me like that
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[Styles P]
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Why is garbage music selling a lot
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Why is the music industry state of mind real far from Hip Hop
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Why vote republican if you black
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Why build more jails, less schools cuz we under attack
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Why I keep the four pound in the air
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The revolution will not be televised get from around here
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Why I keep my right fist in the sky
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I let them know that "We Gonna Make It", don't plan our demise
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Why you gotta teach your kids on your own
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Cuz when you get in the zone, they bringing you in, you both getting cloned
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Why we still gotta pray to Allah
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It's Hip Hop, this the New World Order and they playin us hard
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Why rappers getting protection
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Why the country ain't flipped when they jerked the votes the last election
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Why die for all my beliefs
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I gotta look at my kids I rather smile then cry when he's sleep
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That's why
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[Chorus - Anthony Hamilton]
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Why
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Why they got me strugglin, why
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All the brothas locked behind bars
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Drained up in the system going crazy
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I'm battling my pistol going why
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[Common]
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Why do niggas say I changed for a girl
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Why you worried bout my clothes if my flow gon' change the world
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Why you wait till you 30 to try to be hard
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Why I gotta have religion if I believe in God
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Why is Bush acting like he trying to get Osama
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Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama
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Why ain't Rick James remembered for classic hits
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Why do we remember Rick for smackin a bitch
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Why did Ricky Williams retire, they mad at Miami
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Why did Justin sell Janet out and go to the Grammy's
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Why you kill on every song, why you frown at the screen
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It¡¯s so many thrones, why we argue who is the King
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Why it's over for the gangsta, why it's over for bling
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Why they hype Britney up, they know she can't sing
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Why a whip and a chain a black american dream
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Why I know it in my heart it remains unseen
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Why
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[Chorus}
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[Nas]
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Registered voter not blood of a panther
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Why is the question what is the answer
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Got a suggestion, here's an example
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Won't we build our own airline, states, and highways
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Fly to Africa, do some trades with Zimbabwe
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Why did Malcolm's mission die with the man
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Why we ain't pick it up where he left it and carry out his plan
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Why the merger try to exclude L.A. Reid
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He brought you Usher, Outkast top-selling CD's
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Why do half America got AIDS
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Why do schools care about your son's braids more than they care for his grades
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Why they hate our white t-shirts and hats turned backwards
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And why is Jesus Christ never played by black actors
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And why there ain't a MC that can touch me nor budge me
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And why is Nas the best thing in rap since Chuck D
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And why this record ain't sell 5 mill yet
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Jada's as real as it get
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Put my money where my mouth is
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We do something bout this
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[Chorus]
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[Jadakiss]
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Yo by thugs I'm surrounded
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Tell me why is it the money motivates me but the love keeps me grounded
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Why my cases ain't get thrown out
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And why team USA keep getting blown out
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Why the Democratic party ain't getting with me
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Why they still hanging black bodies in Mississippi
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Yea, why did governor McGrevey get caught with a lizard
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Why they take away Shyne's phone calls and visits
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Why I been hot for 7 years
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Why the new M5 come with 7 gears
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Please tell me why y'all keep making that trash
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Why they reinstating the draft, why is it so much hating you have
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And why sell records and keep working
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Why we go on stage with the bread with the feet working
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Shit Ii's real, why when a loved one die you miss them
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Why it took for me to make "Why" for y'all to listen
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[Chorus]
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Why (Remix) (featuring Common, Nas, Styles P & Anthony Hamilton)
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Jadakiss |