Reason
(专辑: Street's Disciple - 2004)
I
see people hating other people Tell me what's the
reason That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money What's the
reason? By the
time of age nine I'm already deciding If I
can protect mommy from the
hood by fighting Or using a
knife or a
gun when I'm twenty-one By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment And we die then, so I
been a
young nervous wreck in the
projects Watching them older niggas pass pot and they high man I'm just a
young boy, snot nose, hair nappy Cops ride by squeezing their trigger fingers at me So I
would go to school and try to get good grades Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for having braids So she cussed them, said "My son ain't no motherfucking hoodlum" They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from Got a
little older and now I
see Young niggas wanted by the
powers that be (powers that be) I
see people hating other people Tell me what's the
reason That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money What's the
reason? For these wars we're fighting with each other Season after season When you're working hard, but there ain't nothing coming What's the
reason? Uh, picture a
Black nanny and a
baby in a
basket pushing down 5th Ave She never had it, it's not hers to begin with She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on Ain't had a
good meal in so long, but so long as mommy's a
maid Cooking and cleaning, she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreaming Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him? I
could imagine them asking, what type of human being Could leave his family, go back to the
Carribean? Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom? Mom said wipe your tears, keep reading But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feeling defeated A
man feels he has to conquer all The
world is his oyster, his pearl so y'all know I
can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace 'Cause this world keeps spinning, yet still I
wonder what's the
reason I
see people hating other people Tell me what's the
reason When you're working hard but there ain't nothing coming What's the
reason? Ooh-whoa-ooh-whoa I
know a
girl, her boyfriend was a
fugitive She's intuitive, be on some stupid shit She called the
cops 'cause she hated his mother Now he away doing numbers, now she gay with her lover How many niggas gon' die this summer? I
pump life in my music, but still life is a
wonder There's a
officer in a
squad car, he's a
prostitute serial killer It's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the
same cop in church with his wife He's molesting his son and she ignores it at night Little bad ass bastard, lights a
match and kills Betty Shabazz In her pad while she slept They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the
world's in a
twister Nigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next I
see people hating other people Tell me what's the
reason That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money What's the
reason? For these wars we're fighting with each other Season after season When you're working hard, but there ain't nothing coming What's the
reason? "Uh, uh, man, man'll search the
whole planet, looking for what Try to conquer all. So what? To all my niggas with they Kids that love they kids, man. All the
daddies out there To all the
niggas that died tryin'a figure out what's what Tryin'a be the
biggest of the
big, you know. Yeah, yeah Ladies forgive us. Gotta forgive us. For we know not what We do. Breaking hearts, leaving the
crib, bugging out and Shit. Just man... man."