People Everyday (LP Version)

[Verse 1: Speech]

See I was restin' at the park mindin' my own

Business as I kick up the treble tone

On my radio tape player box, right

Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?

Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm datin'

Investigation maybe she was demonstratin'

But nevertheless I was pleased

My day was goin' great and my soul was at ease

Until a group of brothers started buggin' out

Drinkin' the 40 oz, goin' the nigga route

Disrespectin' my black queen

Holdin' their crotches and bein' obscene

At first I ignored them 'cause see I know their type

They got drunk and got guns and yes they wanna fight

And they see a young couple having a time that's good

And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood

So they came to test Speech 'cause of my hair-do

And the loud bright colors that I wear (Boom!)

I was a target 'cause I'm a fashion misfit

And the outfit that I'm wearin' brothers dissin' it

Well I stay calm and pray the niggas leave me be

But they're squeezin' parts of my date's anatomy

Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me?

'Cause if I start to hit this man he'll have to kill me, see

I am everyday people

You see, I am everyday people

I told the niggas please let us pass, friend

I said please 'cause I don't like killin' Africans

But he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube

But I had to take the brother out for being rude

And like I said before I was mad by then

It took three or four cops to pull me off of him

But that's the story y'all of a black man

Actin' like a nigga and get stomped by an African

You see

I am everyday people

You see, I am everyday people

The moral of the story is

You better look very hard at who you're steppin' to

'Cause you might get killed or shot and it's not worth it

Africans need to be lovin' each other and unite