Why is the world like it is today?
Why can’t our kids go outside to play?
Because it’s so many bullets going astray.
Why is every woman a bitch or a hoe?
When sometimes the shoe don’t fit.
Why are black people still intimidated by white skin?
Why on the news does black people keep killing each other over and over again?
Why are black people so blind?
Because we left our morals behind when our ancestors died.
Now we’re scattered around in crack houses, street corners, and jail ceils.
Not understanding we’re facing hell.
Why can’t we feel the true meaning of love?
Because we think it’s found between the sheets.
Why can’t a day go by without my people getting high?
Because we hate ourselves and we hate our lives,
And of course our money not right.
Why can’t 2 black women greet each other with open hearts?
Oh, I forgot that 20 generations ago all that shit stopped.
Why are we still blaming the white man?
It hasn’t’ rained a slave since freedom began to ring.
Why are my people still stuck on themselves?
Because we think we’re the shit when we have the attitude “I don’t care.”
So I guess it’s ok to stay high until we die.
Besides life is a trip and then you die, right?
So when your homeboy die it’s no need to cry.
He never planned a future anyway, right?
Do you think he ever even tried?
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
Is all my people know.
Not side by side or eye to eye,
And nobody can answer, why?