[Intro:]

Ayo, yeah niggas

I'm talking to all y'all hard rock niggas

Let y'all niggas know that I understand

What niggas is really going through, ya understand?

Motherfucking down to they last cent

Smoking looseys

Thinking up shit to do, doing stick ups and shit

Busting at niggas, murdering niggas

Getting bullshit ass money

What if that was your peoples you murdering clown?

It's wild

Shout out to grandpa, you know what I'm saying?

Shout out to grandpa kelly

My man Ralou's brother little Devin

Ya know I'm saying, Freaky Taliq's moms, rest in peace

Know I'm saying?

Everybody wanna live the ill life, know I'm saying?

But yo we trying to live it like love, peace and nappiness

You know I'm saying? word up

[Verse 1]

I'm growing up in the ghetto

And there was nobody happy

And my head is mad nappy and

I'm thinking up a way that I can get some dough

Man I'm trying to blow

But yet this record shit is so slow

I got the whole family on my back

All I do is eat and sleep

Run the street with that ill pack

You know them Lost Boyz guys

With Timbs and jeans

Field jackets, and hats covering the eyes

But listen, that's how it is

If you don't dig how I live

Motherfuckas mind ya biz!

Cause everyday on the street

The black man is getting beat

Police line us up on the concrete

Now people look at me

And always see wrong

A new problem everyday

I'm trying to be strong

Now how strong can a nigga be

When the blacks is locked down

And the Wghite man's got the key

It's getting harder day after day

Somebody gots to pay

And in my closet lays an AK

A newborn is found dead

Plus money killed the girl

And put the gun to his own head

You never hear this on the 6:00 news

When my niggas get killed in the street over tennis shoes

It's hard as hell for us Blacks to earn cash man

The homeless keep warm by setting fire to a trash can

Now everyday I need ends

Newports, my nigga weed

St. Ides is my best friend

Pop's is broke

No calls coming in on my phone

And money I'm down to my last stone

My mom dukes is always banging on my door

My music's too loud

I got clothes on the floor (pick 'em up)

She doesn't understand

I'm cruising in the fast lane

I'm fresh out of nerves, Ma

You're working on my last vein

Now how can I explain

That I don't wanna take her out

But that's stuck in my brain

We're having fight after fight

Because I leave when it's bright

And come skunked up the next night

But that's the life that I live, understand me

It's bad enough that Po-Nine tried to can me

Ayo my lifestyle's rough

I got three sisters, four brothers

Man, 8 is enough

But yet I gots no hero

But I got the 4-1-1 on the ghetto

Tune into channel zero

Tune into channel zero

Tune into channel zero

[Chorus:]

Lalalalalala

Everybody in the world

Lalalalalala

Everybody Uptown

Lalalalalala

Everybody in Queens, bounce

Tune into channel zero

Lalalalalala

Everybody in Brooklyn

Lalalalalala

Everybody in the Bronx

Lalalalalala

Everybody in the world, bounce

Tune into channel zero

[Verse 2:]

I live in Queens, New York (and what you do?)

I twist a cap with my niggas

Smoke a blunt let's start to talk

About this ill situation

That us blacks is in

It's time we build a better nation

Motherfuck them police

Some whites talk about peace

Others treat us like beasts

But they ain't ready for the planet

Marky Mark be talking that slang

But he don't even understand it

Yea I said Marky Mark

Fronting like the buddah is sparked

I never seen you in the park

You gets awards for your bullshit skills, G

A White boy acting black, that shit kills me

Pants sagging, talking slang kid and all that

I never seen you in the project's hall, black

Ayo, I wants no Grammy

Ya whiteys gave Elvis a stamp

And what ya plan to give my man Sammy?

The Klu can get a Klan but the Blacks gets one month

And every year, what the fuck is that there?

Now you're best to disappear

The Black Planet is near

Four cops dismissed down in L.A.?

Now what the fuck are y'all telling me?

There's no justice, understand man, there's just us

The only time we stick together is when the Whites rushed us

Yeah, I'm beefing with you Blacks

Cause only on racial attacks is when we walk in packs

We need to stick together daily, understand?

Cause I got more reasons than Philip Bailey, man

Ayo, us Blacks need to get the facts right

Cause hey it's only right when the Whites see us Blacks fight

And in the street, niggas fight over concrete

To make ends meet