A Lot 2 Live 4

(album: Da Bomb - 1993)

When I was you age, I wanted to be a ball player
I would dream about being a ball player, about being a, a race car driver, an astronaut
Kris, Kris, need a way to die? I respect that, I respect that
But what about what you have to live for?
Man, there ain't nothing to live for!

Being 5 and I live and it's making me sick
Brother's got me scared to go to school but I can't quit
"Cause if I do, (If you do), I'll be through, (He'll be through)
And plus mine's are beeping 'til I'm black and blue, (Fool!)
So what I do is take it day by day
Go to school and get a lecture 'bout my pants being the wrong way
Then they try to ban a man for having braids
Oh yeah, even though I was keeping up my grades
But yo, it didn't matter, (Why?), they just wasn't with it
They kept calling pops tryna give me the "Quit it!"
I got some friends that be treating me mean
Jealous 'cause they seeing us on the T.V. screen

They wanna beat us down 'cause we ain't around no more
They wanna beat us down 'cause we ain't around no more
But they gots to understand I'm still down with my crew
I just had some business to attend to
But never will we ever go shame, (shame)
And turn back my hood 'cause my hood is what praise me
Uh, What's funny is that I ain't grown up
But we did something to keep some of our young up here from being town up
And now I'm considered as a role model, (role model,)
So when there's something mo' to life they turn it up an gold bottle, (huh)
I pray and pray that everyday is good
'cause it's rough and tough growing up as little boys it the hood
If we wasn't doing this we'd be out the back door
But I was told like I'm telling, you got somehing to live for!
Break 'em off son

Kris, Kris, need a way to die? I respect that, I respect that
But what about what you have to live for?

Kris, Kris, need a way to die? I respect that, I respect that
But what about what you have to live for?