They Don't Give A Fuck About Us

(album: Better Dayz - 2002)

[2Pac:]
Y'all ain't never just tripped and pictured
And just looked at the whole situation
'Cause once you look at it
You know, (really do)

[2Pac:]
They don't give a fuck about us
They don't give a fuck about us
They don't give a fuck about us
If I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
Nobody give a fuck about us
And when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us

[2Pac:]
Some say niggas is hard headed 'cause we love to trick
Equipped with game so we bang with this thuggish shit
I see you trying to hide, hoping that nobody don't notice
You must always remember
You're still a member of the hopeless
See, you're black like me, so you snap like me
When these devils try to plot, trap our young black seeds
Look it, cops are just as crooked as the niggas they chasing
Looking for role models, our father figures is basers
Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep
Niggas at the party with they shotties just as rowdy as me
Before I fear computer chips, I gotta deal with brothers flipping
I don't see no devils bleeding, only black blood dripping
We can change; what your mouth say?
I'm watching niggas work their lives out without pay
Whatever it takes to switch places with the busters on top
I'm busting shots, make the world stop
They don't give a fuck about us

[2Pac:]
Now if I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
Nobody gives a fuck about us
But when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us
If I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
Nobody gives a fuck about us
But when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us

[E.D.I. Mean:]
It's the morning after and now all the laughter is gone
Time to reflect on what you did, 'cause they saying you wrong
I'm sure you had your reasons, dawg; I don't doubt you
See, the simple fact of the matter is they don't give a fuck about you
Or them five mouths you forced to feed
Not including yourself, all you want is wealth, they perceive it as greed
So as you loaded up that MAC and continue to buck 'em
I was on paper, thinking they don't give a fuck about us

[2Pac:]
I'm seeing it clearer, hating the picture in the mirror
They claim we inferior, so why the fuck these devils fear ya?
I'm watching my nation die, genocide the cause
Expect a blood bath, the aftermath is y'alls
I told you, last album, we need help cause we dying
Give us a chance, help us advance, 'cause we trying
Ignore my whole plea, watching us in disgust
And then they beg when my guns bust
They don't give a fuck about us

[2Pac:]
Now if I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
Nobody gives a fuck about us
But when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us
If I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
Nobody gives a fuck about us
But when I start to rise
A hero in their children's eyes
Now they give a fuck about us

[Kastro:]
Now, all my homies got love for me
Down to catch a slug for me
Guaranteed to bleed deeply, now that's love
Shit, nobody else could give a fuck
If I'm tore down, from the floor down, six-feet deep in the cut
What the fuck done went wrong?
How long will I be mourned?
When I'm gone, same song, ain't gave a fuck all along
And who am I to blame 'em?
Just do or die through the raining
Since they don't give a fuck, I don't; feel what I'm sayin'?

[Kadafi:]
Now, thug niggas die but multiply in doubles
Wrapped in plastic or closed casket for our troubles
Pressed in times, we busted, like bubbles
With the police, this nation's peace sent here to run you
Now look at what this crooked world has come to
I grew up on the other side of perfect, a life of hurting
Man, I still hustle, so I'm dying certain
So I spent your time in poor and working, I see no reason
So I stay balling season to season
Why you stuck thinking that they give a fuck?

[Napolean:]
You tell me my world is in peace, but nigga, you're lying
'Cause half of my niggas long gone
Buried in the dirt just for trying
Sometimes I think my block is dying and that is awful
To wake up to another day, shit ain't changed that's all fool
I wake up sweating, dreaming, coughing
Seeing me upside down backwards head twisted
While I'm laying in the coffin
The shit comes around so often; so tell me something
Before I take it out on the world, and get to dumping
Nigga, I been so through pain, go through the struggle
Doing the same thing you did at my age, and that's hustling
On the edge of straight busting
Well, since you don't give a fuck, I be fronting
And I'ma drink my Hennessy like it ain't nothing

[2Pac:]
If I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
They don't gives a fuck about us
But while I'm kicking rhymes
Kick it to their children's minds
Now they give a fuck about us
They wanna see us die
They kick us every time we try
'Cause they don't give a fuck about us
So while I'm getting high
I'm watching as the world goes by
'Cause they don't give a fuck about us
If I choose to ride, thugging 'til the day I die
They don't gives a fuck about us
But while I'm kicking rhymes
Kick it to their children's minds
Now they give a fuck about us
They wanna see us die
They kick us every time we try
'Cause they don't give a fuck about us
So while I'm getting high
I'm watching as the world goes by
'Cause they don't give a fuck about us
Rise... rise