Changes

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00:00I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself, is life worth living or should

00:22I blast myself?

00:23I'm tired of being poor and even worse than black, my stomach hurts so I'm looking for

00:26a purse to snatch.

00:28Cops give a damn about a negro, both trigger kill a nigger, he's a hero, give the crack

00:32to the kids, who the hell cares, one less hungry mouth on the welfare, first ship him dope

00:37and let 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

00:49making 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?

00:57I 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 races, we under,

01:24I wonder what it takes to make this, run below the place, let's erase the wasted, take the devil out,

01:29the people, they'll be acting right, cause both black and white are smoking crack tonight,

01:32and the only time we chill is when we kill each other, take skill to be real, time to heal each

01:36other, and although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to see a black president, uh, it ain't a

01:41secret, don't conceal the facts, the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks, but some

01:45things will never change, try to show another way, but you're staying in the dope game, now tell me

01:50what's the mother to do, being real don't appeal to the brother and you, you gotta operate the

01:55easy way, I made a G today, but you made it in a sleazy way, selling crack to the kids,

01:59so it's gotta get paid, oh, hey, that's the way it is, that's just the way it is, things

02:09will never be the same, that's just the way it is, oh yeah, that's just the way it is,

02:24we gotta make a change, it's time for us as a people to start making some changes, let's

02:42change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, let's change the way we treat each

02:46other, you see, the old way wasn't working, so it's on us, do what we gotta do to survive,

02:52still I see no changes, can't I brother get a little peace, it's war on the streets and

02:57it's war in the middle east, instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the

03:01police can bother me, and I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do, but now I'm back

03:06with the facts, giving it back to you, don't let them jack you up, back you up, crack you

03:10up, and pimp smack you up, you gotta learn to hold your own, they get jealous when they

03:14see you with your mobile phone, I tell the cops they can't touch this, I don't trust this,

03:18when they try to rush, I bust this, that's a sign, I'm a tool, you say it ain't cool,

03:23my mama didn't raise no fool, and as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped, and

03:27I never get to lay back, cause I always got to worry about the payback, some buck that

03:32I rocked up way back, coming back after all these years, rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the

03:37way it is, that's just the way it is, things will never be the same, that's just the way

03:49it is, oh yeah.