The temperature got flaring people sweat, the weather hot They argue and they fret a lot, set up the plot, to wet up the block or not the blood is red up in the gutter Music is my and butter I got a show in Brooklyn the ghetto love us Pulled up in Mtulu's truck, I'm suited up, I'm as fuck Security on my baseball hat promoter knew what's up Plus Chaps had on some Denim shorts and white and I told the bouncer they being disrespectful 'cause you we working
I a custy or a patron and trust me no one would be paying To come in this crusty ass club, if I ain't like "I'll put you the fuck out" And you put your words like that It's third strike black you struck out His man tried to rush me behind Chaps stuck out a size nine Seen him trip, face into the line Cats is with no spine and they power tripping too The next level is the violence, so what y'all wanna do?
Work it out, we try to work it out People lie, people cry, people die to it out the book, pray to God Look to work it out We try to work it out Yo what y'all ladies do?
it out, to get fly she work it out People lie, people cry, die to work it out Read the book, to God Look to work it out the love, lose the hate Work it out, it out
People placed in situations they can't what they facing Is the trials and to make them say The Lords forsaken Their ones intervening but they always blaming them For problems they realize what they part is in creating them men who so insecure they think they women cheating on them And women who think the That they man them is they beating on them Keep sleeping on soon they partner creeping on them Committing crimes of passion they in mothers weeping on them
her head in her hands There's only one thing that the dead that it's better to be alive Now what you do stick your head in the sand You probably the to fall for anything And take that instead of a Now that's a instead of a man I the role as the head of my fam And on the I meet incredible fans I rock with an a DJ instead of a band We at a theatre you So what y'all niggaz do?
Work it out, we try to work it out People lie, people cry, die to work it out Read the book, to God Look inside to it out We try to work it out Yo what y'all ladies do?
Work it out, to get fly, she it out lie, people cry, people die to work it out Read the book, to God Look to work it out Show the love, lose the Work it out, it out
Stay civilized they try to kill my high I try to think problems honesty to rap like Cam'ron brought the Pink to Harlem You could be on the brink to stardom and suddenly you sink to Tell the truth about the war and suddenly you to Saddam the topic but the closest people, get to patriotic Is Red white vodka mixed with the straight hypnotic? Paper prophets sell the revolution so they make a Trust they got it fucked up with your started making rockets
Take it off the top like politicians, speaking proper Stuffing dollars in they britches, they do a lotta stripping Got the top bitching about the quality of life All that get exposed as soon as Kweli sees the mic They cutting down the of life, the sun rays is running out The ain't eating right, the guns stay coming out See how play the streets at night slap the taste out your mouth To you what they work about So what y'all niggaz to do?
Work it out, we try to work it out People lie, people cry, die to work it out Read the book, to God inside to work it out We try to work it out Yo what y'all ladies do?
Work it out, to get fly, she it out People lie, people cry, die to work it out Read the book, to God Look to work it out Show the love, the hate it out, work it out