[Verse 1]
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I gotta few things I wanna ask the Lord
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Why my people gotta be so poor, feel me
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and why's it so rough when you're young and black
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They say you go to jail or get strung on crack
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Why the girl have a baby she was twelve years old
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Ask the state why the cell's gotta be so cold
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and why these niggas here with so many years
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whole family in court crying so many tears
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can you picture us living with hope [hell no]
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when the same ones hanging us is giving us dope
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shit, it's hard to get by
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I pray to God it's still hard to get by
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Just wanna hold my son [my man]
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but I can't leave my house until I load my gun
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I gotta grab my sword
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and when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord
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like, why we dying from AIDS
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and why on TV it's aight to be gay
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aint that sorta like my gun got the right to be waved
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if I could sit back and watch a whole cipher of slaves
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ask my man where the blacks at
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ask myself where the next Malcolm X at [I don't know]
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Is he makin Salat, or upstate like a ape in a box
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am I a human or a fallen angel
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got to pray by myself cuz I'm out of angle
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I aint facin the east, tell the brothers I was shakin the beast
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had the nine and the eight in the streets
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open your eyes, stay wise, cuz even Satan is deep
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I pray for a better living
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even though I think I'm better dying
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why, cuz I'd rather hear the angels singing
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why, and I don't wanna hear my people crying, feel me black
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[HOOK]
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We aint gotta die no more, I said we aint gotta die no more
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Black woman Listen
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You aint gotta cry no more, I said you aint gotta cry no more
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Black child Listen
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We gotta provide for y'all, I said we gotta provide for y'all
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Devil man Listen
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We got a surprise for y'all, I said we got a surprise for y'all
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Black man Listen
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[Verse 2]
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'Bout to be on some clever shit [I got to be]
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I gotta think if the president is prejudice
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and that's another eight years down
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the 500 year warn, that's a eight year round
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I don't really mean to sweat it
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but the war been on before they came on your TV and settle
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They don't need lead to shoot ya
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why would a man make a computer to head the future
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I think about it in a weed session
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They said better technology, all I see is regressin
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blew up our buildings in fact [blow us all up]
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but if they live under the sun then them children is black
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'fore the devil get more time I'd rather see the world cease
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hit the afterlife of world peace
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where black men don't die, the women don't cry
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and the little kids get provided for and play in the sky, what
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[HOOK]
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Listen
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