It's really real, I feel the way that I do right now I see all my underground Pushing up daisies, man, it me That you see where you gonna be A statistic, gon' call ballistic If you had a good day, damn, I have missed it you mad at the Universe Going to with everybody else cause you want your own first I got the urge to let you in on a little Cause you keep if I keep it All the that you're feeling is from within For the check the color of your skin Why I couldn't try even if I had to Born the bullet-proof vest when I had you A black trying to get through to the few So you can leave the crew
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're wasting all your Right along with mind
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're wasting all your Right along with your
Why I do right and suffer I rather do wrong making that loopy and hustler Instead of hot-dogs I'm eating up in their smother And got a gang of loot up in the safe up in my On top of all I push big fat Lex And got my hoes that in golf course just in case I 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 years to school and never read A knowledge of my hood is something they can never me I never started to step but I kept up the Joneses Having rollers... my little ring I did a lot of thing the girls knew it, flock into it I'm around my old way, yeah, they still to do it Its not about the clothes that you got on your But the money in your pocket and if you're down that on
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together While you're all your time Right along 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 your mind
Wella, Mr. Man tell me where you're heading The last few years I while you were sheading Pounds and pounds on for the population we won't be able to have a strong black nation A here, a stabbing there nowhere to stop Cause now you're dying the dose of the crack rock I'm just a Nubian Queen that needs a to stand strong And try to on not a white man's finger on the trigger Car-jacks, drive-by's, callin' other "nigga" I'm not here to but rather shape n' mold That black mind that won't live to grow old Cause you're smoking on the blunt and Down with your friends you think you're making ends But you're not - and that's the of the matter Your brother gettin' skinny, you want your pockets fatter
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're all your time Right along your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together you're wasting all your time Right along your mind