[00:00.18]Girl, this mother******'s got rhythm
[00:21.76]So am I 'posed to be dead or doin' life in prison?
[00:24.62]Just another dummy caught up in the system
[00:27.19]Unruly hooligan who belongs (?)
[00:29.71]Plus gettin' that degree at Stanford or Harvard
[00:32.35]And by my work ethic, the way I speak
[00:34.88]Yo, should I be mentally weak, (?) Malik
[00:37.26]Yo, should I be trapped in the trap? Would you prefer that?
[00:39.95]Fourth grade mean level but he knows how to rap
[00:42.34]Are you amused by our struggles?
[00:44.09]The English that's broken?
[00:45.39]The ************ that I'm smokin'?
[00:46.55]The guns that I'm totin'?
[00:47.81]The drugs that I'm sellin'?
[00:49.14]No need for improvement
[00:50.34]****** you and who you think I should be, forward movement
[00:53.13]Melanin is shrouded in complexity
[00:55.57]Brain charge shocking like 'lectricity
[00:58.35]Mouth translate happens organically
[01:00.76]The media relates to what it thinks it sees
[01:03.52]Judging steps in shoes from a path they never walked
[01:06.91]Shot down in a blaze over phrases, how to talk
[01:08.41]Dark skin, walk with a bop, a trade feelin'
[01:11.34]I'm chillin', feelin' down (?)
[01:13.88]Supplement the youth, ********ualizing women
[01:16.38]They ain't got the strong enough hold, so they built a prison
[01:18.91]Pumping false religion to all of these ******s' systems
[01:21.54]Every voice devoid of the truth
[01:23.38]Come on, listen
[01:24.90]Look at this, look at this
[01:26.85]Whatever will be will be
[01:29.51]Like a billionaire investin' in a ******'s dreams
[01:31.61]Certainly a head scratcher, like Pac and Big's killas
[01:34.30]Or a woman with the wisdom who's leadin' the way
[01:36.86]The rarity is in the rear, but never today
[01:39.91]Man, picture a (?) lettin' good records play
[01:42.18]On the strength of what it is, not the finesse of your biz
[01:44.81]And your lady calls you dirty, her dirts under rugs
[01:47.31]You'll find out only if she tells you, take her kiss and hug, cuz
[01:49.84]In the answer for cancer in a prodigious kid's mind
[01:52.42]Yes, the government will for learning is feed for everyone
[01:55.02]And from that lie, your leaders will rise in the eyes
[01:57.53]Of despair and adversity in some universal sense will be true
[02:01.07]Everybody runnin' when they see the stars comin'
[02:03.08]But whatever's gonna be will be
[02:05.78]Everybody runnin' when they see the stars comin'
[02:08.33]But whatever's gonna be will be
[02:10.61]Some will dash to the mountain, some will crawl
[02:14.30]And the weakest amongst them, they will fall
[02:20.63]But the strongest in fate, they will stand tall
[02:26.47]Everybody runnin' when they see the stars comin'
[02:28.98]But whatever's gonna be will be
[02:31.73]I just wanna feel as liberated as lions in Liberia
[02:33.96]'Cause recently my heart turned cold as Siberia
[02:36.67]'Cause everywhere I go, bein' cold is the criteria
[02:39.18]Let's see how well you know all your Tribe trivia
[02:41.88]Green and the white, we servin' that Nigeria
[02:44.30]North side of Queens, one-nine-two is the area
[02:47.09]This is for my dawgs from ************h Tzus to Terriers
[02:49.72]****** it, it's showtime
[02:51.00]Tip, make sure they hearin' ya