Lavell:
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Back in this mug like I never ever left and I'm joggin' in first place
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Work so hard, everyday on the job, is it worth it in the first place?
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But, but, but, you want it all and you want it right now
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And you want it in the worst way
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So the worst case scenario, they probably plan your burial
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Play you on the stereo, shoot you and there you go, POW!
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Cause I seen all the time on the news bout the drive-by
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Kid shot the man but the man was a Rabbi
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Welcome to the days of our lives, tryna' find allies, what's that?
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Better pray to Allah, to help that
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Ladies go Gaga, niggas eat Popeyes, life is so Haha, and all that
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See¡¦ your mind may be closed when your eyes is wide open
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The kids are just laughin', and drinkin', and tokin'
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They don't have no hope but their moms are just hopin'
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But you and I know tell me who is she jokin'?
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They do what they see they is grabbin' their scrotum
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The cops they patrol them and try to control them
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Mane, now ain't that some shamefulness, this world is dangerous
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Why they play with us, when they know we can't win?
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They make us seem brainless, then they want to enslave us
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I swear I done seen this, not again
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Hook:
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I seen all the time on the news bout the drive-by
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The kid shot the man but the man was a Rabbi
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Never in your life you'll see, a world unbound and a mind that's free
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A world that's fit for a human being
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Josh:
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BEINGS!!!
With that being said
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Just hope a nigga don¡¯t end up dead
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Walk these streets, all I see is red
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That¡¯s innocent people, lying in their blood
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Folks play dirty, trying to drag me through the mud
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Hate what I see, what I see on the web
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Politicians lying, that¡¯s what I call corrupt
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Got me asking, where¡¯s the love?
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We don¡¯t get enough of it, they shoot folks in public
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Then try to empty our budgets, whoa, what the heck is that?
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Taxes pay for more bombs and gats
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Put them in the hood, for the kids with no dads
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It¡¯s all in ink like they putting on a tat
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I'm just saying facts. Plus they hate blacks
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Ronald Reagan made crack. If they frontin how can I stay back?
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We need to find our way back, to the days there was peace
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Smoking them trees, now a nigga can't lay back
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Without being paranoid, got questions that they all avoid
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Taking most of the money, why you think most folks unemployed?
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So if you want answers first you better ask why
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Cause you look like a fool trying to blame it on the Rabbi
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Hook:
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I seen all the time on the news bout the drive-by
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The kid shot the man but the man was a Rabbi
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Never in your life you'll see, a world unbound and a mind that's free
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A world that's fit for a human being
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Josh:
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The truth is
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These niggas out here they ruthless
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Iraq been done called the truces
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First chance I'mma call it deuces
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Lavell:
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So I'm outta here,
it's not like these people really care
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Watch 'em take away your medicare
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I hope these niggas hear me loud and clear
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Josh:
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Loud and clear. Loud and clear
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Can you hear me? Loud and clear
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Trust me when I say "watch for your peers"
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I can feel it, the end is near
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Lavell:
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And the end has come
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Watch this cop gon pull out his gun
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They want that smoke to infect your lungs
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Freedom of speech but watch your tongue
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Josh:
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Watch your tongue, watch what you say
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Lavell:
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Watch what you hear, watch what you play
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Josh:
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Give or take they might take you away
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Lavell:
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Bury the evidence hide your body
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Josh:
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Where's your body? Nowhere to be found
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Lavell:
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No not a trace, where are you now?
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Josh:
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Call themselves kings but I will not bow
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Lavell:
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This is the life...
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Both:
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...of America's Child.
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America's Child
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Lavell Jones |