Why is rattin' at an all time high?
Why they do me like that?
Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar?
Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets?
Why the whole world love my voice?
Is this pain that I've been living
Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time?
Why my buzz in L.A. ain't like it is in New York?
Why rap, 'cuz I need air time?
Why they sellin' niggaz, CD's for under a dime?
Why be on the curb wit' a, “Why lie, I need a beer” sign?
But got sent up on the highway
Yea, and why they gon' give you life for a murder
Why Denzel have to be crooked before he took it?
Why they kill Tupac n' Chris?
Why you around them cowards?
Why ain't you a thug by choice?
Why you screamin' like it's slug, it's only the hawk?
Why my nigga D ain't pull out his Ferrari?
Why they stop lettin' niggaz get degreez in jail?
Try'd to make it my way
Why I say the hottest shit but be sellin' the least?
Why all the young niggaz is dyin'?
Why they gotta do me like that?
Why they gotta do me like that?
Why they let the terminator win the election?
Why niggaz can't get no jobs?
Why a nigga always want what he can't have?
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw?
Why are you even alive?
Why they do me like that?
Why he kiss that whore? Why?
Why he take that bike?
Why is a brother up North better than Jordan?
And why do niggaz lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes?
Why, oh why?
Why, oh why?
All that I been givin'
Why I can't come through in the pecan Jag?
Why my niggaz ain't get that cake?
Why at the bar you ain't take straight shots instead of poppin' Criss?
All that I been givin'
Is this pain that I've been living
Why my diesel have fiends in the spot on the floor for days?
But got sent up on the highway
Try'd to make it my way
They got me in the system
Why they ain't give us a cure for aids?
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight?
If it's all love daddy why you come wit' your nine?
Why they gotta do me like that?
All that I been givin'
Why try to tell 'em that it's the flow son?
Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt
Why you ain't stackin' instead of tryin' to be fly?
And if you don't smoke why the hell you reachin' for my dutch?
And why they never get it poppin' but they party to death
Try'd to make it my way
And why them dudes ain't ridin' if there part of your set
Why did crack have to hit so hard even though it's almost over?
Turn around only give you eight months for a burner, it's goin' down
Why did bush knock down the towers?
Come on, pay attention
And you know why they made the new twenties
Why they gotta open your package and read your mail?
Why, oh why?
But got sent up on the highway
Why you forcin' you to be hard?
They got me in the system
Why they didn't make the CL6 wit' a clutch?
They got me in the system
Why them bullets have to hit that door?
'Cuz they moms at work, they pops is gone, they livin' wit' iron
Why they come up wit' the witness protection?
Uh, yea, yo
That ain't get that break
'Cuz I got all my old ones that's why
Is this pain that I've been living
Why would niggaz push pounds and powder?
