trigga witta heart

rap ain't never did shit for a nigga with no options

you want some positivity go listen to some common

i'm here to bring you knowledge that they left out at your college

where you paid a hundred thousand

just to fall behind anyway

all in the white man's plan to just assimilate

the nigga's if they stopped they business

let the monkeys intergrate

abraham lincoln never kept none of my niggas safe

only gave them prison dates

and church's chicken dinner plate's

columbus is beloved

when the fuck will malcom get a day?

probably never

try to hide the truth

but they hardly clever

only show the youth

house niggas wear cosby sweaters

wisdom scripted in the prison

letter's that my father sent us

waiting for armageddon

still slangin' that arm & hammer

use them cop's as target practice

they owe us a couple l's

how we 'gon know the future when we barely know ourselves?

it ain't hard to tell

the nigga's got it hard as hell

when i say thug life

i mean that shit

cause these white folks see us as thugs

i don't care what ya'll think

i don't care if you think a lawyer

if you a man

if you an african-american

if you whatever the fuck you think you are

we thugs and nigga's to these motherfuckers

you know

and until we on some shit

i'mma call it like it is

how you going to be a man and we starving? you know?

and we walk down and 5 different houses and not a man in either one of them motherfuckers?

how we going to be a man?

how we gonna be african-americans and we--