[00:00:02] Roots [00:00:09] Praise for the days when I couldn't get paid [00:00:11] In the fix on the mix in the d**n projects [00:00:14] Cracks for the blacks but I couldn't sell that [00:00:16] Even though blacks couldn't get jobs and s**t [00:00:19] Hit after hit from the Sugarhill Gang [00:00:21] Hear a Pow Wow hear a Big Bank Hank [00:00:23] It was strange I was broke but I still got the record [00:00:26] Even though I was poor and about butt naked [00:00:28] Rats in my front room roaches in the back [00:00:30] Junkies in the alley running styles for the crack [00:00:33] It was ill on the real I be still bugging off it [00:00:35] In the ways I will walk it so today I can talk it [00:00:37] It's a shame how the games in the ghetto get played [00:00:40] On the cracks they paid for the tricks they laid [00:00:42] I'm afraid for the youth in this time we're living in [00:00:44] Just about 13 on the scene scrambling [00:00:47] Gambling small time apologize nice [00:00:49] I'm about to roll 10 7's for the crap I rolled twice [00:00:52] Rough business it's a rich mon time [00:00:54] When you ain't got the loot you resort to the crime [00:00:56] From the cess house the youth house the jail house the Cult house [00:00:59] Where I perfected these skills I be doggin [00:01:01] Love to teach the facts but the brothers in the back [00:01:03] Can't see what I'm saying cause the blunt smoke is foggin [00:01:06] Still I proceed with degrees of the wisdom [00:01:08] Cause this s**t's thick it kicks and I know it [00:01:11] Lickle do you know there's a God and so [00:01:13] Born just like Christ in a d**n ghetto [00:01:34] From ghetto to ghetto from project to project [00:01:37] Bookbag of lessons but I ain't have dough yet [00:01:39] From knowledge to wisdom from wisdom to see [00:01:41] And understand me if you don't dance G [00:01:44] It's a god in the house it's a god in the house [00:01:46] And I'm godding it out and I'm godding it out [00:01:48] I've come a long way the strong way the wrong way I lived it [00:01:51] The right way you might say I got it I'll give it [00:01:53] But praise for the days when I used to be tramp [00:01:56] And had to freeload of my Earth's food stamps [00:01:58] 'Til I stopped paused start the pop's stores [00:02:00] It was ill on the real but who's to die for us [00:02:03] Say that I rock my own community [00:02:05] Ain't a d**n thing owned by the you or the me [00:02:07] It's Koreans I be seeing on the neighborhood corners [00:02:10] With the guns and the stores and love the  owners [00:02:12] So beg my parton peace Natasha Harton [00:02:14] See I won't forget I know for s**t's starting [00:02:17] From my way to LA from JA to UK [00:02:19] I am who I am I say what I say [00:02:22] I gots no time to love a slave trader [00:02:24] Cause according to the constitution they'll always hate us [00:02:27] Play this say this and say it like I said it [00:02:29] Cause a magazine edit can get your a*s beheaded [00:02:31] I'm thorough breaded black slave dreaded [00:02:34] The s**t that y'all doing I already did it [00:02:36] But lickle do you know there's a God and so [00:02:38] Born just like Christ in a d**n ghetto [00:03:00] Praise for the days when I used to be trife [00:03:02] With a lack of understanding anything about life [00:03:04] So thanks to Malcom Martin Wylee Ferartin [00:03:07] Father Allah talk the talk that I'm starting [00:03:09] Peace to Elijah we can't forget about ya [00:03:12] Teaching us how ta get up out the [00:03:14] Project complex caves [00:03:16] Another d**n rave for the d**n ex slave [00:03:18] My ghetto noise ringing from a project hallway [00:03:20] Don't want to hear my mom say Blacks have come a long way [00:03:23] How can she see that when we haven't eaten all day [00:03:25] Haven't had a job since the ending of the slave trade [00:03:28] Then they give us church attempt to try and ease this [00:03:30] But I check it out had to learn about Jesus [00:03:32] Told em he was black and they called me a hater [00:03:34] Then he's on the church wall yeah like a slave trader [00:03:37] Something real funny's going on boy I'll tell ya