What About Us

If it's this system, in the ghetto back far to one place one time
(What about us?)
(What about us?)
It's sad 'cause its sadder for us
I'm a boy and I gotta show it
(What about us?)

(What about us?)
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
Dog ain't ever gonna break our pride
What about my partners doin' time?
Like spittin' on them foxies skied up
(Fuck that)
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
(What about us?)
(What about us?)

(What about us?)

The B.O. it taking me in
(What about us?)
In the palm of my dick
(What about us?)
Find out that I'm innocent and still gotta fight for money they owe me

Juvenile delinquent and baby y'all be respecting me
What about this harassment from the police?
Coming to school wit' heaters bustin' their teachers
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
They beat us down for dumb shit, they lock us up for dumb shit
What about my young thugs cry?
(What about us?)
Been tall with shit, I seen it all
What about these whack ass politicians?
This is the life that I live
What about my young thugs cry?
What about my young thugs cry?
What about my partners doin' time?
My partner called me after court
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?

They making some cheese just to feed their folks
What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
What about us?
And make them wonder why you give them ploys
What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
They say America, it's the land of the free
Whatever happened to family and humanity we posses
What about them thugs that out here lost
And times when niggaz die, she help like I was a baby
(What about us?)
What about them thugs that ain't even grown?

Before I die my momma, she carry me no comma
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
What about my young thugs cry?
And they like somebody won't go home
What about my partners doin' time?
Bone Thug gotta show love, keep it real and really real
Try to kick it when you spittin' real smooth

What about this harassment from the police?

What about my young thugs cry?

What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
What about my young thugs cry?
What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
But still this pain and may not know it
Sometimes she a bitch, sometimes my lady
(What about us?)
Crooked coppers scaring the niggaz off in the hood

What about that elderly barely breathing? Gotta survive on SSI
And what about this war against us
Some of them resting in piece and some will never get free
(What about us?)
What about this harassment from the police?

But unemployed for all the little girls and boys
What about my young thugs cry?
What about them thugs that's dead and gone?
But what about that little nigga running the streets
But they listening in my business, trying to fuck up my move
And they wonder why we riot in the damn streets

What about this harassment from the police?

(What about us?)
Remember you always got love from home
(What about us?)
(What about us?)

How they get it they don't care
(What about us?)
(What about us?)
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
This is the life that I love
(What about us?)
And ain't ever gonna find their way home?
What about my young thugs cry?
What about this harassment from the police?

(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
What about our boys and young girls
It's for my, incarcerated niggaz

What about my niggaz still out on the street?
He said they got 25 to life just for slingin' some dope
What about my young thugs cry?
See most of the niggaz still on the street
What about my young thugs cry?
Gotta stay strong 'cause you ain't alone
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
I hear them cries from the babies
Niggaz bitches and drama
Know we gone, how they sleep at night if they know they be lying

Cops not even checking on me
(What about us?)
You got to love your mom and daddy
Oh boy, its getting deep but more expensive then ever cheap
(What about us?)
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
And let the cops see all the shit that I did
This shit we deal wit', we young black and fit less
So bring your knees and hope we can fight and if bury us
(What about us?)
Get on your feet and get ready to bust
And watch what I tell ya, everybody wants some
What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
It's violence and violence, it's the only way their gonna respect us
(What about us?)

Whether we saving fuck the last thing we did
(What about us?)
They can't hold us down we getting all that money
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
What about us?
What about my young thugs cry?
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
What about us?
At least we can live as we believe
That stuck in the pin they coming home
What about my niggaz still out on the street?

What about my partners doin' time?
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
And ghetto to ghetto 'cause ghetto is all we know
And it's a life full of lust nigga
What about my niggaz still out on the street?
Breathing you ass back inhaling when chronic in your chest
I recollect walking and stoppin'
Suspicion got you furious, so grab your shit and listen up

And let 'em know about us
I wish they had a chance don't wanna blow it
Still struggling and hustlin' trying to get something to eat
And all of my soldiers come together
What about our babies, that struggling in this mess, don't streets
(What about us?)
What about them niggaz that get blown off this block if they good?
Making a living through his beats?
They don't care if we live or die
Like soap operas from ghetto stars
What about my young thugs cry?
And home of the brave it's mass hysteria
(What about us?)
Living in the ghetto to ghetto
(What about us?)
Dead niggaz, I've been to war

(What about us?)
(What about us?)
What about this war against terrorism

What about my niggaz still out on the street?
(What about us?)

I can tell when rappers getting bored, really
(What about us?)
What about my partners doin' time?
What about this harassment from the police?
(What about us?)
(What about us?)
What about this harassment from the police?
Hey, somebody call my momma and help me one more time
(What about us?)
The simplest things in life were always the best
In their wicked young world?
What about us?
Ain't nothing you can do to keep us weak
(What about us?)
What about my niggaz still out on the street?