[Big Daddy Kane]

People people, we gotta get over

before we go under, and I wonder

why we can't find a little piece of mankind

Instead of always step back, gimme my damn nine

Livin the thug, like the shoot up the drug type

They love to hear the people sayin, "Yo that kid is bugged right?"

Just a game, so please, out here men die

The average black man today don't make it to see twenty-five

Cause someone else got the clock rocked

Tryin to get the neighborhood locked, to be the new man on the block

But if you asked me who's the man I'm like, "You tell me?

I don't know, Ed Lover, Dr. Dre and Heavy D?"

I got my mind on comin up, if not in first place

then damnit I plan to be the first runner up

But it seems, I got a lot of problems under my belt

and everday I gotta ask myself

[Scoob]

Ah what's goin on, in our society

What's goin on, in a de country

What's goin on, in your community

What's goin on, tell me

[reggae chat] - can't translate

[Big Daddy Kane]

I seen a kid freshly dipped with mad gold

Fifteen years old, with plenty drugs bein sold

But then somebody caught him for his Air Jordans

his drugs the cash and the jewels he was sportin

You wanna call your girl a B-I-T-C-H

You can't appreciate so now she's humpin your man, then she ain't

Cause when you teach her that hoe mentality

They accept that as reality and give all your friends the skin

You need to show some love for your people

All men are created equal, that's why with everybody I always

spread love, and keep my pockets full of dol-dollars

But check it out now

We're not the uncivilized, the Kane ?

So let'