歌手: Black Eyed Peas
时长: 03:06
STREET LIVIN' (街头生活) - The Black Eyed Peas (黑眼豆豆)[00:00:00]
Written by:will.i.am/apl.de.ap/Taboo/Joshua Alverez[00:00:00]
Streets streets[00:00:05]
Livin' in the streets[00:00:14]
Street livin' caught in a trap[00:00:19]
Guns or books sell crack or rap[00:00:22]
Be like kings or be like pawns[00:00:24]
They called us coons now they call us cons[00:00:26]
Street *s be packing pistols[00:00:29]
Terrorists be blasting missles[00:00:31]
Crips and Bloods and retail thugs[00:00:34]
CIA planes bring Colombian drugs[00:00:36]
Don't push me 'cause I'm close to hell[00:00:38]
The teachers in my neighborhood can hardly spell[00:00:40]
And compare to them prison guards get payed well[00:00:43]
Ten years no bail is 4 years at Yale[00:00:45]
So forget about the statue of General Lee[00:00:48]
Because the status of blacks are generally[00:00:50]
Gonna end up in some penitentiary[00:00:52]
Systematically that's how they made it to be[00:00:55]
Listen they derailed the soul train[00:00:57]
And put a nightmare into every Martin Luther King[00:01:00]
And privatized prisons are owned by the same[00:01:02]
Slave masters that owned the slave trade game[00:01:04]
And racists no longer have to be racist[00:01:07]
'Cause *s kill more *s than the KKK did[00:01:09]
Now every time I hear a new def jam[00:01:12]
*s killing *s like they Ku Klux Klan[00:01:14]
I understand what's a ni**a to choose[00:01:17]
Be the killer or be the dead dude in the news[00:01:19]
I get it what's a ni**a to do[00:01:22]
No education in the hood got a ni**a confused[00:01:23]
Street livin' tough conditions[00:01:27]
Brainwashed by the television[00:01:29]
We lost in the war we live in[00:01:31]
Double cross love lost no religion[00:01:34]
Street livin' oh my gosh[00:01:36]
Another brother got shot by the searg'[00:01:38]
Another cop got off with no charge[00:01:41]
If you black in the hood you at large[00:01:43]
You're guilty until we prove you're innocent[00:01:46]
If you're ivory they treat you different[00:01:48]
If you're ebony they assume you're temperament[00:01:50]
Well be vigilant and they call you militant[00:01:53]
You'll get shot and they'll say the incident[00:01:55]
Is 'cause you're beligerent[00:01:57]
What a coincidence[00:01:58]
Born and bred but you're still an immigrant[00:02:00]
If you ain't dead you can see imprisonment[00:02:02]
There's more *s in the prisons than there ever slaves cotton picking[00:02:05]
There's more *s that's rotting in the prisons[00:02:10]
Than there ever slaves cotton picking[00:02:12]
So how we gon' get out the trap[00:02:14]
Guns or books sell crack or rap[00:02:17]
Street livin' hustle or hoops[00:02:19]
Guns or books get shot or shoot[00:02:22]
Street livin' ain't no rules[00:02:24]
Break the law make the breakin' news[00:02:26]
The life you choose could be the life you lose[00:02:28]
*s getting stuck for the Nike shoes[00:02:31]
Street livin' ain't no joke[00:02:34]
It's a cold world better bring your coat[00:02:36]
Revoke 'cause the streets are broke[00:02:38]
And now they wanna take away our dreams and hopes[00:02:40]
Street livin' no economics[00:02:43]
No way out of the Reaganomics[00:02:45]
Infected by the black plague new bubonic[00:02:48]
No comprende we speak ebonics[00:02:50]
Street livin' what's your position[00:02:53]
You can take action or take a dick[00:02:55]
Listen you can get f**ked by the system[00:02:57]
Or you can say f**k the system[00:03:00]