Reason (feat. Emily) - Clean Album Version

I see people hating other people
 Tell me what's the reason
 That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
 What's the reason?
 By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
 If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'
 Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm 21
 But by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment
 And we die then, so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
 Watchin' them older niggas pass pot and they high, man
 I'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappy
 Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
 So I would go to school and try to get good grades
 Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
 So she cussed them, said, "My son ain't no motherfuckin' hoodlum"
 They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
 Got a little older and now I see
 Young niggaz wanted by the powers that be
 I see people hating other people
 Tell me what's the reason
 That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
 What's the reason?
 For these wars we're fighting with each other
 Season after season
 When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
 What's the reason?
 Uh, picture a black nanny and a baby
 In a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
 She never had it, it's not her's to begin with
 She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners
 Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home
 With no phone on, ain't had a good meal in so long
 But so long as mommy's a maid
 Cookin' and cleanin', she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
 Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him?
 I could imagine them askin', what type of human being
 Could leave his family, go back to the Carribean?
 Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom?
 Mommy said, "Wipe your tears, keep readin'"
 But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feelin' defeated
 A man feels he has to conquer all
 The world is his oyster, his pearl, so y'all know
 No, I can't find no reason
 Why we can't all live in peace
 'Cause this world keeps spinning
 Yet still I'm wondering what's the reason
 I see people hating other people
 Tell me what's the reason
 When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothin' comin'
 What's the reason?
 I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitive
 She's intuitive, be on some stupid shit
 She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
 Now he away doin' numbers, now she gay with her lover
 How many niggas gon' die this summer?
 I pump life in my music, but still life is a wonder
 There's a officer in a squad car, he's a prostitute serial killer
 It's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife
 He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night
 Little bad ass bastard, lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
 In her pad while she slept
 They said, "Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister"
 Nigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next
 I see people hating other people
 Tell me what's the reason
 That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
 What's the reason?
 For these wars we're fighting with each other
 Season after season
 When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
 What's the reason?
 Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet
 Looking for what, tryin' to conquer all
 So what? To all my niggas with they kids
 That love they kids, man, all the daddies out there
 To all the niggas that died tryin' to figure out what's what
 Tryin' to be the biggest of the big, you know
 Yeah, yeah, ladies forgive us
 Gotta forgive us for we know not what we do
 Breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib, buggin' out and shit
 Just man, man