What's Goin' On (feat. Mark Twayne)

[00:03.71] Bound
[00:04.19] Yeah, Mark Twain
[00:06.01] YBM, Trae, Kootie C, Boo Strap
[00:10.82] Kootie Crew baby
[00:12.60] I keep asking the Lord, "Can you save my soul?"
[00:14.83] But I'm still hurting, I've been
[00:16.25] Been chasing my dreams for 23 years
[00:18.30] But I'm still searching
[00:19.62] To the point that I had to freak a boo-boo
[00:21.62] Booty shake B to E
[00:23.15] And feed my fam-fam-family
[00:24.92] Now do you understand me?
[00:26.56] But don't get me twisted
[00:27.70] Hater, this real, and I'm still bustin'
[00:30.19] For my young blacks on the view and on them slum blocks
[00:33.65] There go them cop-cops
[00:34.69] Looking to act tough, looking to slap us up
[00:37.09] Now you feel like a tongue
[00:38.76] But we done had enough
[00:40.54] So this is to all who claimin' they real
[00:42.74] With black skin
[00:44.04] What's goin' on-on, goin' on
[00:45.74] When will this madness end?
[00:47.58] My partners still snortin' coke
[00:49.44] Mesmerized by the high
[00:51.01] But paralyzed when we die
[00:52.77] And the anger that stored deep inside
[00:54.52] Is deadly and pours when we cry
[00:56.22] How many days can I live
[00:57.94] With-with no food-food in the fridge?
[00:59.76] How many drinks can I chug
[01:01.47] Before I'm stankin' in the club?
[01:03.29] And like I said, hater what?
[01:04.98] Don't get me twisted and stuck
[01:06.62] This ain't no booty shake rapper South-bound
[01:08.62] What's going on, my black folks?
[01:11.88] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[01:15.38] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[01:18.80] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[01:22.30] What's going on-on with blacks?
[01:24.16] I keep-keep asking my blunt that
[01:25.83] But he don't say shit, he just smoke
[01:27.56] And shove more sin down my throat
[01:29.32] To the point now I can't even breathe
[01:31.05] My-my-my heart won't even breathe
[01:32.75] White-white folks say-say they love us
[01:34.48] But them lies I won't-won't even believe
[01:36.27] And y'all-y'all black-blacks even worse
[01:38.06] Kids turning on kids, guns burst
[01:39.77] Blows get rolled up in the alley
[01:41.56] And fools'll kill you for your Rally's
[01:43.42] And it don't laugh-laugh yet
[01:44.81] You're in the club getting screwed and screwed
[01:46.75] Ass up, face down
[01:47.64] And you thinking a real man 'bout to respect you
[01:50.18] Freak, please
[01:51.05] 'Cause it ain't that type of party
[01:52.49] Nobody wanna freak-freak in they life
[01:54.72] Fist fights break in the middle of the night
[01:56.78] Like 8-Ball up in them cell walls
[01:58.93] Of-of Alto
[01:59.78] And I really wish-wish that we had more
[02:02.35] Young folks who be looking to rise
[02:04.13] Instead of gettin' high and hidin'
[02:05.87] My young black male, T.M.E
[02:07.67] Every day we the prey, you feel me?
[02:09.35] Like a group of thugs opening trunks on a crowd of punks
[02:12.76] "Yup, he got a gun," they screaming
[02:14.97] As death runs through the parking lot
[02:16.75] This whole world is South-South-bound
[02:18.96] What's going on, my black folks?
[02:21.52] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[02:25.09] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[02:28.44] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[02:31.95] What's going on with this shit?
[02:33.45] I go to this madness every morning that I wake
[02:36.88] Be peepin' over my shoulder for them sharks and them snakes
[02:40.44] Po-po on my ass for probation violation
[02:43.72] March 7th, 1998, mama was taken
[02:47.24] Hate coming from my folk
[02:48.90] Tell me, now is it gon' stop?
[02:50.68] Sick and tired of seeing animosity
[02:52.47] Between me and my pops
[02:54.12] Ain't never showed me no love
[02:55.43] Ever since I came back from school
[02:57.12] Should've been in the pros
[02:58.91] But I drunk on too many brews
[03:00.99] Colt .45 on the curb
[03:02.41] As soon as they brought me the word
[03:04.23] About my nigga freakin' murder
[03:05.97] He didn't deserve to get served
[03:07.65] But I keep on walkin' the walk
[03:09.42] Won't hear me talkin' the talk
[03:11.12] Living every day to the fullest
[03:12.88] 'Cause tomorrow I might be caught
[03:14.59] Livin' in three walls and the stars
[03:16.50] Lighting my ports on the wall
[03:18.03] Waking up with the laws comin' in with the dogs
[03:19.86] Steppin' in and out of my drawers
[03:22.06] Lord, I can't take it no more
[03:23.79] Would you please get this stress up off my chest?
[03:25.52] What's going on in the SWATS?
[03:27.08] Niggas'll get you for what you got
[03:28.78] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[03:31.16] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[03:34.63] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[03:38.13] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[03:41.64] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[03:45.07] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[03:47.25] What's going on with this shit, my black folks?
[03:51.89] What's going on with this shit, part-part-partner?
[03:55.58] What's going on with this shit?
[03:58.13] How many folks gotta die?
[03:59.36] How many more gotta yell before we burn
[04:00.80] In hell and got nothing left to say?
[04:02.27] How many people gotta pay they lives and they souls
[04:04.38] To look at life as a whole and find it?
[04:05.91] How many times you gotta get shot to notice
[04:07.47] What you really got in this lifetime?
[04:09.40] I represent the South
[04:10.55] It ain't just you, it's me, partner, I represent it all
[04:13.14] When I say, "What's going on?" I say, "What's going on with myself?"
[04:15.25] I look in the mirror, bad health
[04:16.97] Smoke good, drink good
[04:18.38] Whatever it take to make it through a day
[04:19.95] I can't take a break to that mountain
[04:21.57] Gotta get it going good, partner
[04:23.07] Now where that Bill found at?
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