所属专辑:Street’s Disciple
歌手: Nas
时长: 04:48
I see people hating other people[00:00:05]
Tell me what's the reason[00:00:08]
That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money[00:00:11]
What's the reason [00:00:18]
By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'[00:00:20]
If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'[00:00:22]
Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one[00:00:24]
By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment[00:00:26]
And we die then so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects[00:00:29]
Watchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high man[00:00:33]
I'm just a young boy snot nose hair nappy[00:00:36]
Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me[00:00:38]
So I would go to school and try to get good grades[00:00:41]
Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids[00:00:43]
So she cussed them said "My son ain't no motherf**kin' hoodlum"[00:00:46]
They judged us thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from[00:00:48]
Got a little older and now I see[00:00:51]
Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)[00:00:53]
I see people hating other people[00:00:58]
Tell me what's the reason[00:01:03]
That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money[00:01:07]
What's the reason [00:01:12]
For these wars we're fighting with each other[00:01:14]
Season after season[00:01:19]
When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin'[00:01:22]
What's the reason [00:01:27]
Uh picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave[00:01:29]
She never had it it's not hers to begin with[00:01:32]
She gives it breakfast baths and dinners[00:01:35]
Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on[00:01:36]
Ain't had a good meal in so long but so long as mommy's a maid[00:01:41]
Cookin' and cleanin' she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'[00:01:44]
Where's my daddy who's my daddy have you seen him [00:01:49]
I could imagine them askin' what type of human be-ing[00:01:51]
Could leave his family go back to the Carribean [00:01:54]
Was he locked up shot up does he have freedom [00:01:57]
Mom said wipe your tears keep readin'[00:01:59]
But daddy's somewhere spirit broken feelin' defeated[00:02:01]
A man feels he has to conquer all[00:02:04]
The world is his oyster his pearl so y'all know[00:02:06]
I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace[00:02:10]
'Cause this world keeps spinning yet still I wonder what's the reason[00:02:16]
I see people hating other people[00:02:25]
Tell me what's the reason[00:02:29]
When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'[00:02:32]
What's the reason [00:02:38]
Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa[00:02:41]
I know a girl her boyfriend was a fugitive[00:02:42]
She's intuitive be on some stupid sh*t[00:02:43]
She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother[00:02:46]
Now he away doin' numbers now she gay with her lover[00:02:48]
How many niggaz gon' die this summer [00:02:51]
I pump life in my music but still life is a wonder[00:02:54]
There's a officer in a squad car he's a prostitute serial killer[00:02:56]
It's odd huh 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife[00:03:00]
He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night[00:03:04]
Little bad a** bastard lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz[00:03:07]
In her pad while she slept[00:03:10]
They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister[00:03:12]
Ni**a what you expect Imagine what's next[00:03:16]
I see people hating other people[00:03:21]
Tell me what's the reason[00:03:23]
That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money[00:03:27]
What's the reason [00:03:33]
For these wars we're fighting with each other[00:03:36]
Season after season[00:03:39]
When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin'[00:03:42]
What's the reason [00:03:47]
"Uh uh man man'll search the whole planet looking for what[00:03:51]
Try to conquer all So what To all my niggaz with they[00:03:57]
Kids that love they kids man All the daddies out there[00:04:02]
To all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's what[00:04:07]
Tryin'a be the biggest of the big you know Yeah yeah[00:04:11]
Ladies forgive us Gotta forgive us For we know not what[00:04:17]
We do Breakin' hearts leavin' the crib buggin' out and[00:04:22]
Sh*t Just man man "[00:04:26]