Now is the on y'all
Stand tall, live your life to the haterism seem like a fuckin' epidemic And look at Ice Cube, I ain't no I'm from the hood, I got to represent it now
Every day I think about my And all the crazy we do to one another I ain't your brother, but I'm your 'cause brother Let's take it back to the and how it was brother
If not, we gon' pull triggers Show the world we to be called niggaz I a fuck up like Don Imus Bow on his knees, and call me yo'
You can too, you got the to Don't let this system devour you I won't pretend or act I'm knowin' you But check it out I what you goin' through
But remember, and sisters You can stand tall be thankful For you got
I know what y'all thinkin' Here comes another rapper with a song hope All you hear is a song about dope And how a nigga got mo' than the Pope But he'll never tell you he drop the soap
No, Ice Cube is here to drop you a 'Cause some of our used to hang from ropes And of our people used to hang from trees Now the thing hangin' motherfuckers is deez
So, get your mind right and rhyme right Fuck the limelight and a blind I'm the sunlight, too bright to it's all said and done I should write the book
You too cool for school, too old to Get ass off the grassroots and let 'em grow I understand, it ain't no love But little kids, it no Santa Claus
But remember, and sisters You can stand tall, stand up be thankful, yeah For what you got,
I was in the mud but I came out clean That's 'til the tried to intervene Tried to lock me up when I was only Don't never ever, let 'em kill your dream
I make raw that piss off the law If you some fake shit turn this off If you want realness I know you can feel this Maybe we can heal just like an illness
on black, I got'cho back People think that we know how to act Just because our neighborhood is with crack And the CIA won't it back
Never on top, always on the put your trust in Hillary Rodham 'Cause I can tell you now, it's gon' turn out on pushin', get 'em 'til we got 'em
But remember, and sisters You can stand tall, stand up Just be thankful, For you got
your hand if you sick of this bullshit In the belly of the empire