It's really real, when I the way that I do right now I see all my brothers Pushing up daisies, man, it me That you can't see where you be A statistic, everybody's call ballistic If you had a good day, damn, I have missed it Cause you mad at the Going to hell everybody else cause you want your own first I got the urge to let you in on a little Cause you dying if I keep it All the that you're feeling is from within For the check the color of your skin Why lie? I couldn't try if I had to Born with the vest when I had you A black woman to get through to the few So you can leave the next
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together While you're wasting all your Right along with your
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're wasting all your along with your mind
Why should I do and suffer I do wrong making that loopy and that hustler Instead of hot-dogs I'm eating porks up in their And got a of loot up in the safe up in my covers On top of all I push big fat Lex And got my hoes that in course just in case I feel like flexing So I ask, for real though, who are you See, I'm a big man
Yeah, you know a big man, check it I went for twelve to school and never could read A knowledge of my hood is they can never teach me I never started to step but I kept up the Joneses Having rollers... my little ring I did a lot of kinky thing the knew it, flock into it I'm my old way, yeah, they still wants to do it Its not about the clothes you got on your back But the money in your and if you're down like that on
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're all your time Right along with your
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While wasting all your time Right with your mind
Wella, Mr. Black Man me where you're heading The last few years I watched while you sheading Pounds and pounds on for the population we won't be able to have a strong black nation A shooting here, a stabbing nowhere to stop Cause now you're dying the dose of the crack rock I'm just a Nubian that needs a king to stand strong And try to on It's not a man's finger on the trigger Car-jacks, drive-by's, each other "nigga" I'm not here to but rather shape n' mold young black mind that won't live to grow old Cause you're fronting smoking on the and Down with friends cause you think you're making ends But not - and that's the truth of the matter Your brother gettin' skinny, cause you want your fatter
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're all your time Right with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together you're wasting all your time Right along with your