It's really real, I feel the way that I do right now I see all my brothers up daisies, man, it amazes me That you can't see where you be A statistic, everybody's gon' call If you had a day, damn, I must 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 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 try even if I had to Born with the bullet-proof vest I had you A woman 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 you're wasting all your time Right along with your
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together you're wasting all your time Right along with mind
Why should I do right and I rather do wrong making loopy and that hustler Instead of hot-dogs I'm eating porks up in their And got a gang of up in the safe up in my covers On top of all I push big fat Lex And got my hoes that in golf course just in case I feel 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 rollers... my little pinky ring I did a lot of kinky thing the girls knew it, into it I'm around my old way, yeah, they still to do it Its not the clothes that you got on your back But the money in your pocket and if you're down 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 with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're wasting all your Right along with mind
Wella, Mr. Black Man me where you're heading The last few years I watched you were sheading and pounds on growth for the population Soon we won't be able to have a strong nation A shooting here, a there nowhere to stop Cause now you're dying the dose of the crack rock I'm just a Nubian Queen needs a king to stand strong And try to on It's not a white man's finger on the Car-jacks, drive-by's, callin' other "nigga" I'm not here to scold but rather n' mold That black mind that won't live to grow old Cause you're fronting on the blunt and Down your friends cause you think you're making ends But you're not - and that's the of the matter Your brother gettin' skinny, cause you want pockets fatter
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While wasting all your time Right with your mind
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While wasting all your time Right along your mind