street livin'
Singer:black eyed peas
be like kings or be like pawns
street niggas be packing pistols
terrorists be blasting missiles
crips and bloods and retail thugs
cia planes bring colombian drugs in
don't push me 'cause i'm close to hell
the teachers in my neighborhood can hardly spell
prison guards get paid well
ten years no bail is 4 years at yale
forget about the statue of general lee
because the status of blacks are generally
gonna end up in some penitentiary
that's how they made it to be
they derailed the soul train
and put a nightmare in every martin luther king
and privatized prisons 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
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
no education in the hood got a nigga confused
brainwashed by the television
we lost in the war we live in
double cross love lost no religion
another brother got shot by the searg'
another cop got off with no charge
you're guilty until you prove you're innocent
they assume your temperament
will be vigilant and they call you militant
and you'll get shot and they'll say the incident
is 'cause you're belligerent
born and bred but you're still an immigrant
there's more niggas in the prisons than there ever was slaves cotton picking
there's more niggas that's rotting in the prisons than there ever was slaves cotton picking
how we gon' get up out the trap?
the life you choose could be the life you lose
niggas getting stuck for the nike shoes
revoke 'cause the streets are broke
and now they wanna take away our dreams and hopes
no way out of the reaganomics
infected by the black plague
you can take action or take a dick and listen
you can get fucked by the system
or you can say fuck the system""