STREET LIVIN'

Street livin' caught in a trap

Guns or books sell crack or rap

Be like kings or be like pawns

They called us coons

now they call us cons

Street niggas be packing pistols

Terrorists be blasting missles

Crips and bloods and retail thugs

CIA planes bring Columbian drugs

Don't push me

cause I'm close to hell

And compare to them

prison guards get payed well

Ten years no bail

is 4 years at Yale

So forget about the statue

of General Lee

Because the status

of blacks are generally

Are gonna end up

in some penitentiary

Systematically that's how

they made it to be

Listen they derailed the soul

train

And put a nightmare

into every Martin Luther kING

And private complexes

are owned by the same

Slave masters that owned

the slave trade game

And racists no longer

have to be racist

Cause niggas kill more niggas

than the KKK did

Now every time

I hear a new def jam

Niggas killing niggas

like they Ku Klux Klan

I understand

what's a nigga to choose

Be the killer or be the dead

dude in the news

I get it what's a nigga to do

No education in the hood

got a nigga confused

Street livin' tough conditions

Brainwashed by the television

We lost in the war we live in

Double cross love lost no religion

Street livin' oh my gosh

Another brother got shot

by the searg'

Another cop got off with no charge

If you black in the hood

you at large

You're guilty

until we prove you're innocent

If you're ivory

they treat you different

If you're ebony

they assume your temperment

Well be vigilant

and they call you militant

You'll get shot

and they'll say the incident

Is because you're beligerent

What a coincidence

If you ain't dead

you can see imprisonment

It's more niggas in the prisons

than there ever slaves

cotton picking

There's more niggas in the prisons

than there ever

slaves cotton picking

So how we gon' get out the trap

Guns or books sell crack or rap

Street livin' hustle or hoops

Guns or books get shot or shoot

Street livin' ain't no rules

Break the law make the breakin' news

The life you choose

could be the life you lose

Niggas getting stuck

for the Nike shoes

Street livin' ain't no joke

It's a cold world

better bring your coat

Revoke cause the streets are broke

Now they wanna take away

our dreams and hopes

Street livin' no economics

No way out of the Reaganomics

Infected by the black

plague new bubonic

No comprende we speak ebonics

Street livin'

what's your position

You can take action

or take a **** and listen

you can get ****ed by the system

Or you can say **** the system