Today we're gonna do something scary We're venturing into the mind of young black males Let's take a peak... [ Young Lay ] Cuddies perved by the corner
toothy smiles And Uncle Tom is posing for a photo op with the Oval Office clan And Uncle Sam is rigging cockfights in the Promised Land And that knife you stuck in my back is
still tryin to make a dollar outta fifteen cents Got the Cutlass full of coffee for no evidence It's a drought but I got ice cream 16 five, everyday, all day
don't write love songs. What is it that we sing then? Our love of life is total, everything we do is an expression of that, Everything that we write
this is for the niggas who was down from day one Love to hear, love to hear you motherfuckers I advise all you ghetto livin', struggling from day to day
wouldn't advice you to. 44 is good to go when I'm busting caps at fools. Takin' you hoes to school. The books N desks, no crooks or police sketch. You
are hateration nonsense [Chorus] Now on the other end of this microphone Is the problems of a man whose mind is fucked up And on the other side of the speaker spark Is
fine (My time) is the day before the day the earth stood still (My time) is the day before the soldiers fired at will (My time) is the day before the
be a better way Yes ya gotta be willing to pray 'Cause there gotta be there gotta be a better day Whoever said that the struggle would stop today A lot
(ghetto) Or sleeping in the (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto) Akon Gun shots every night in the (ghetto) Crooked cops on sight in the (ghetto) Every day is
each day not to Take too much Not to give too much away Sleep tight under painted stars Cause while we're here we gotta laugh out loud and say Who we were is
To civilize nearly the hope we have Though you call me sadistic, imperialistic My armies required a quarry And though we may slave, what's a splendid day today
hold [Chorus: *sung*] We can live today, but we're not promised tomorrow We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday We can live today, but we're not
[Chorus: *sung*] We can live today, but we're not promised tomorrow We can pass away, say goodbye to yesterday We can live today, but we're not promised
didn't wanna be a doctor, he don't like school It wasn't that he was dumb, he just thought he was too cool Cause all the moneymakers and the big-time crooks
niggas is clones, I hand out styles like ice cream cones get the fuck out'a here [Pusha T] Thats for real, my gats is real SL5 is looking like the batmobile
to listen God love us hood niggaz 'Cause next to Jesus on the cross was the crook niggaz But he forgive us Day by day, by day I sit back and pray My