00:17I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself, is life worth living or should I
00:22blast myself?
00:23I'm tired of being poor and even worse than black, my stomach hurts so I'm looking for a purse to
00:27snatch.
00:27Cops give a damn about a negro, both trigger kill a nigger, he's a hero, give the crack to the
00:32kids, who the hell cares, one less hungry mouth on the welfare, first ship him dope and let him deal
00:37with brothers, give him guns, step back, watch him kill each other, it's time to fight back, that's what Huey
00:42said, two shots in the dark, now Huey's dead, I got love for my brother, but we can never go
00:47nowhere unless we share with each other, we gotta start making changes, learn to see me as a brother instead
00:52of two distant strangers, and that's how it's supposed to be, how can the devil take a brother if he's
00:56close to me?
00:57I love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change, that's the way it is.
01:18I see no changes, all I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace to races, we under, I wonder
01:24what it takes to make this, wanna be let a place let's erase the wasted, take the devil out, the
01:29people they'll be acting right, cause both black and white are smoking crack,
01:32tonight, and the only time we chill is when we kill each other, take skill to be real, time to
01:36heal each other, and although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready to see a black president, uh, it ain't
01:41a secret, don't conceal the facts, the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks, but some things will never change,
01:47try to show another way, but you're staying in the dope game, now tell me what's the mother to do,
01:51being real don't appeal to the brother and you, you gotta operate the easy way, I made a G today,
01:56but you made it in a sleazy way, selling crack to the kids, gotta get paid, oh, hey,
02:01that's the way it is
02:36we gotta make a change, it's time for us as a people to start making some changes, let's change the
02:42way we eat, let's change the way we live, let's change the way we treat each other, you see the
02:47old way wasn't working, so it's on us, do what we gotta do to survive, still I see no changes,
02:55can't a brother get a little peace, it's war on the streets and it's war in the middle east, instead
02:59of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs,
03:01so the police can bother me, and I ain't never did a crime, I ain't have to do, but now
03:05I'm back with the facts, giving it back to you, don't let them jack you up, back you up, crack
03:10you up, and pimp smack you up, you gotta learn to hold your own, they get jealous when they see
03:14you with your mobile phone, tell the cops they can't touch this, I don't trust this, when they try to
03:19rush, I bust this, that's a sign I'm a tool, you say it ain't cool, my mama didn't raise no
03:24fool, and as long as I stay black, I gotta stay strapped, and I never get to lay back,
03:29cause I always got to worry about the payback, some buck that I rocked up way back, coming back after
03:34all these years, rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat, that's the way it is
03:39That's just the way it is
03:43Things will never be the same
03:46That's just the way it is
03:51Oh yeah
03:52That's just the way it is
03:53That's just the way it is
03:54That's just the way it is
03:54That's just the way it is
03:54That's just the way it is
03:54That's just the way it is
03:54That's just the way it is
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