It's really real, when I feel the way I do right now I see all my brothers up daisies, man, it amazes me That you can't see you gonna be A statistic, everybody's gon' ballistic If you had a day, damn, I must have missed it Cause you mad at the Going to with everybody else cause you want your own first I got the urge to let you in on a little you keep dying if I keep it All the that you're feeling is from within For the copper check the color of skin Why lie? I couldn't try if I had to Born with the vest when I had you A woman trying to get through to the few So you can leave the crew
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself you're wasting all your time Right along your mind
5 in the morning. Where you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're all your time Right along with your
Why should I do right and I rather do wrong making loopy and that hustler Instead of hot-dogs I'm porks 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 in golf 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 years to school and never read A knowledge of my hood is something they can teach me I started to step but I kept up with the Joneses Having rollers... my 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 about the clothes that you got on back But the money in your pocket and if you're like that on
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You better get yourself While you're wasting all your along with 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 with mind
Wella, Mr. Black Man me where you're heading The few years I watched while you were sheading Pounds and pounds on growth for the Soon we won't be able to have a black nation A shooting here, a there nowhere to stop Cause now dying from the dose of the crack rock I'm a Nubian Queen that needs a king to stand strong And try to on It's not a white man's on the trigger Car-jacks, drive-by's, callin' other "nigga" I'm not here to but rather shape n' mold That young black mind that won't to grow old Cause you're fronting on the blunt and Down with your cause you think you're making ends But you're not - and the truth of the matter Your brother gettin' skinny, cause you want your fatter
5 o'clock in the morning. you gonna be? (Outside on the corner) You better get together While you're wasting all time Right along with mind
5 o'clock in the morning. Where you be? (Outside on the corner) You get yourself together While you're wasting all your Right along your mind