| Wanna ask the government, why yall hate us so much ? Wanna ask the other color, why yall hate us so much? Wanna ask the law, why yall hate us so much? Wanna ask the prosecutor, why yall hate us so much? Is it our skin color, or is it da way we talk? U hate us cause we us, or u hate us cause we fought? Is it da way we live, or is it da way we walk? We never had shit, so it can't b nothing we bought. Da shit y'all took us through, probably da reason we off. Our pride we still got it, da only thing we ain't lost. Defending ourselves (shit) that was something we was taught. Done been through da roughest times, but all of it ain't our fault. Wish I can add up da years in prison our peoples caught. Da government, da strippers, we ain't really have a choice. Yo peoples go to college, my peoples go to court. Yo peoples was born with money, my peoples was born broke. Yo peoples lived in mansions, my peoples hung from ropes. Yo peoples had it made, all my peoples had was hope. Yo peoples had help, all my peoples heard was NO. My peoples thought about it, yo peoples cut our throats. Da respect we had for 1 another shit wasn't even close. We had to entertain that was our only open door. If we wanted to make it, we had to rap, sang, or try sports. We couldn't afford a full ride, shit my people poor. My people ain't mad, yo people hate us though. But we da ones who struggling, so y y'all hate us for? Da police want us bad, da judge hate us more. Da jury think we guilty, before we come ... |
