STREET LIVIN'歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : will.i.am/Apl.de.Ap/Taboo/Joshua Alverez
[00:00.041] 作曲 : will.i.am/Apl.de.Ap/Taboo/Joshua Alverez
[00:00.83]
[00:19.15]Street livin', caught in a trap
[00:21.62]Guns or books, sell crack or rap
[00:23.99]Be like kings or be like pawns
[00:26.06]They called us ******s, now they call us cons
[00:28.63]Street ******s be packing pistols
[00:31.31]Terrorists be blasting missles
[00:33.55]Crips and bloods and retail thugs
[00:35.92]CIA planes bring Columbian drugs
[00:38.24]Don't push me cause I'm close to hell
[00:41.02]The teachers in my neighborhood can hardly spell
[00:42.82]And compare to them,
[00:43.84]Prison guards get payed well
[00:45.34]Ten years no bail is 4 years at Yale
[00:47.15]So, forget about the statue of General Lee
[00:49.82]Because the status of blacks are generally
[00:52.39]Are gonna end up in some penitentiary
[00:54.71]Systematically,
[00:55.74]That's how they made it to be
[00:57.25]Listen, they derailed the soul train
[00:59.87]And put a nightmare
[01:00.80]Into every Martin Luther King
[01:02.09]And privatize prisons are owned by the same
[01:04.52]Slave masters that owned the slave trade game
[01:06.94]And racists no longer have to be racist
[01:09.21]Cause ******s kill more ******s than the KKK did
[01:11.98]Now, every time I hear a new def jam
[01:14.15]******s killing ******s like they Ku Klux Klan
[01:16.82]I understand what's a ****** to choose?
[01:18.73]Be the killer or be the dead dude in the news
[01:21.82]I get it, what's a ****** to do?
[01:23.36]No education in the hood, got a ****** confused
[01:26.49]Street livin', tough conditions
[01:29.00]Brainwashed by the television
[01:31.31]We lost in the war we live in
[01:33.43]Double cross love lost no religion
[01:35.90]Street livin', oh my gosh
[01:38.12]Another brother got shot by the searg'
[01:40.48]Another cop got off with no charge
[01:42.95]If you black in the hood, you at large
[01:45.53]You're guilty until we prove you're innocent
[01:47.74]If you're ivory, they treat you different
[01:50.01]If you're ebony, they assume you're temperament
[01:52.74]Well, be vigilant, and they call you militant
[01:55.04]You'll get shot, and they'll say the incident
[01:57.46]Is because you're beligerent
[01:58.90]What a coincidence?
[02:02.26]If you ain't dead, you can see imprisonment
[02:05.55]It's more ******s in the prisons
[02:06.94]than there ever slaves cotton picking
[02:09.57]There's more ******s that's rotting in the prisons
[02:11.78]than there ever slaves cotton picking
[02:14.52]So, how we gon' get out the trap?
[02:16.72]Guns or books, sell crack or rap
[02:19.05]Street livin', hustle or hoops
[02:21.52]Guns or books, get shot or shoot
[02:23.99]Street livin', ain't no rules
[02:26.20]Break the law, make or break the news
[02:28.47]The life you choose could be the life you lose
[02:30.89]******s getting stuck for the Nike shoes
[02:33.56]Street livin', ain't no joke
[02:35.78]It's a cold world, better bring your coat
[02:38.30]Revoke cause the streets are broke
[02:40.41]Now, they wanna take away our dreams and hopes
[02:43.00]Street livin', no economics
[02:45.51]No way out of the Reaganomics
[02:47.69]Infected by the black plague, new bubonic
[02:50.21]No comprende, we speak ebonics
[02:52.22]Street livin', what's your position?
[02:55.00]You can take action or take a ******
[02:57.21]Listen, you can get ****** by the system
[03:00.25]Or you can say ****** the system