00:00I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself, is life worth living or should
00:23I blast myself?
00:24I'm tired of being poor and even worse than black, my stomach hurts so I'm looking for
00:27a purse to snatch.
00:28Cops give a damn about a negro, pull the trigger, kill a nigger, he's a hero, give the crack
00:33to the kids, who the hell cares, one less hungry mouth on the welfare, first ship him dope and
00:38let him deal with brothers, give him guns, step back, watch him kill each other, it's
00:41time to fight back, that's what Huey said, two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead, I got
00:45love for my brother, but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other, we gotta start
00:50making changes, learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers, and that's
00:54how it's supposed to be, how can the devil take a brother if he's close to me?
00:58I love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change, that's the way it is.
01:02I see no changes, all I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace to racist, we under, I wonder what it takes to make this, one below the place lets erase the wasted, take the devil out, the people they'll be acting right, cause both black and white are smoking crack.
01:33Time we chill is when we kill each other, take skill to be real, time to heal each other, and although it seems heaven set, we ain't ready to see a black president.
01:40It ain't a secret, don't conceal the facts, the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks, but some things will never change, try to show another way, but you're staying in the dope game.
01:49Now tell me what's the mother to do, being real don't appeal to the brother and you, you gotta operate the easy way, I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way, selling crack to the kids, gotta get paid, oh hey, that's the way it is.
02:03That's just the way it is, things will never be the same, that's just the way it is, oh yeah, that's just the way it is, things will never be the same, damn nothing's gonna be the same, that's just the way it is.
02:33We gotta make a change, it's time for us as a people to start making some changes, let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, let's change the way we treat each other, you see the old way wasn't working, so it's on us, do what we gotta do to survive, still I see no changes, can't a brother get a little peace, it's war on the streets and it's war in the Middle East, instead of war on poverty, they gotta war on drugs so the police can buy,
03:03and I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do, but now I'm back with the facts, giving it back to you, don't let them jack you up, back you up, crack you up, and pimp smack you up, you gotta learn to hold your own, they get jealous when they see you with your mobile phone, tell the cops I can't touch this, I don't trust this, when they try to rush, I bust this, that's a sign I'm a tool, you say it ain't cool, my mama didn't raise no fool,
03:25and as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped, and I never get to lay back, cause I always got to worry about the payback, some buck that I rocked up way back, coming back after all these years, rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is
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