Channel Zero

[00:03.99] Ayo, yea niggas
[00:06.15] I'm talkin to all y'all hard rock niggas
[00:11.18] Let y'all niggas know that I understand
[00:13.69] What niggas is really goin through ya understand?
[00:16.56] Motherfuckin' down to they last cent
[00:19.54] Smoke the looseys
[00:21.54] Thinkin up shit to do, doin stick ups and shit
[00:23.84] Bustin' at niggas, murderin' niggas
[00:26.54] Gettin bullshit ass money
[00:28.68] What if that was your breed was you murderin' clown?
[00:31.54] It's wack
[00:33.61] Shout out to grandpa, you know what I'm sayin'
[00:36.57] Shout out to grandpa kelly
[00:40.52] My man ralou's brother little Deven
[00:42.82] Ya know I'm sayin', Freaky Taliq's moms, rest in peace
[00:46.44] Know I'm sayin'
[00:48.06] Everybody wanna live the ill life, know I'm sayin
[00:51.57] But yo we tryin ta live it like love, peace and nappiness
[00:55.29] You know I'm sayin, word up
[00:58.88] I'm growing up in the ghetto
[01:01.42] And there is nobody happy
[01:03.82] And my head is mad nappy and
[01:05.49] I'm thinkin up a way that I can get some dough
[01:07.68] Man I'm tryin' ta blow
[01:08.90] But yet this record shit is so slow
[01:10.60] I got the whole family on my back
[01:12.46] All I do is eat and sleep
[01:14.33] Run the street with that steel pack
[01:16.26] You know the lost boyz got
[01:18.32] With timbs and jeans
[01:19.45] Field jackets, and hats coverin' the eyes
[01:21.85] But listen, that's how it is
[01:23.88] If you don't dig how I live
[01:25.27] Motherfucka mind your biz
[01:27.16] 'Cuz everyday on the street
[01:28.57] The black man is gettin' beat
[01:29.96] Police line us up on the concrete
[01:32.22] Now people look at me
[01:34.11] And always see wrong
[01:35.45] A new problem everyday
[01:36.84] I'm tryin' to be strong
[01:38.08] Now how strong can a nigga be
[01:41.45] When the blacks is locked down
[01:42.49] And the white man's got the key
[01:43.82] It's gettin' harder day after day
[01:45.58] Somebody gots to pay
[01:46.53] And in my closet lays an AK
[01:47.78] A newborn is found dead
[01:50.65] Plus money killed the girl
[01:52.33] And put the gun to his own head
[01:54.67] Ya never hear this on your 6: 00 news
[01:56.67] When my niggas get killed in the street over tennis shoes
[01:59.85] It's hard enough for us blacks to earn cash man
[02:02.16] The homeless keep warm by settin fire to a trash can
[02:05.16] Now everyday I need ends
[02:06.65] New boss my nigga weed
[02:08.66] St. Ides is my best friend
[02:10.82] Pa's is broke
[02:11.90] No calls comin' in on my phone
[02:13.53] And money I'm down to my last stone
[02:16.05] My mom dukes is always bangin' on my door
[02:18.54] My music's too loud
[02:19.78] I got clothes on the floor (pick em up)
[02:21.74] She doesn't understand
[02:22.92] I'm cruisin' in the fast lane
[02:24.14] I'm fresh outta nerves
[02:25.20] Ma, you're workin' on my last vein
[02:26.88] Now how can I explain
[02:29.27] That I don't wanna take her out
[02:31.13] But that's stuck in her brain
[02:33.24] We're havin' fight after fight
[02:34.42] Because I leave when it's bright
[02:36.01] And comes skunked up the next night
[02:37.99] But that's the life that I live understands me
[02:40.11] It's bad enough that Po-Nine tried ta can me
[02:43.23] Ayo my lifestyle is rough
[02:44.97] I got three sisters, four brothers
[02:46.85] Man, eight is enough
[02:48.72] But yet I gots no hero
[02:50.72] But I got the 411 on the ghetto
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[03:00.73] Everybody in the world
[03:03.16] Everybody uptown
[03:06.76] Everybody in Queens
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[03:11.22] Everybody in Brooklyn
[03:14.58] Everybody in the Bronx
[03:17.58] Everybody in the world
[03:20.06] Tune into channel zero
[03:22.03] I live in Queens, New York (what you do?)
[03:23.83] I twist a cap with my niggas
[03:25.14] Smoke a blunt let's start to talk
[03:27.07] About this ill situation
[03:28.75] That us blacks is in
[03:30.59] It's time we build a better nation
[03:32.48] Motherfuck them police
[03:34.33] Some whites talk about peace
[03:36.06] Others treat us like beasts
[03:38.10] But they ain't ready for the planet
[03:39.87] Marky Mark be talkin' that slang
[03:41.58] But he don't even understand it
[03:43.51] Yea I said Marky Mark
[03:45.27] Frontin' like the buddarist punk
[03:46.90] I never saw you in the park
[03:48.65] You gets award for your bullshit skills G
[03:51.44] A white boy actin' black, that shit kills me
[03:54.45] Pants saggin', talkin' slang kid and all that
[03:56.87] I never seen you in the projects or black
[03:59.87] Ya never wons no grammy
[04:01.74] Ya whites gave Elvis a stamp
[04:03.57] But what ya plan ta give my man Sammy?
[04:05.17] Oh this question give the rednecks fun
[04:06.08] The Klu can get a Klan
[04:08.83] But the blacks gets one month
[04:10.04] And every year, what the fuck is that there?
[04:12.58] Now you're best to disappear
[04:13.76] The Black Planet is near
[04:15.12] Four cops dismissed down in L.A.?
[04:18.18] Now what the fuck are y'all telling me?
[04:20.83] There's no justice, understand man, there's just us
[04:23.66] The only time we stick together is when the Whites rushed us
[04:26.20] Yeah, I'm beefing with you Blacks
[04:28.28] 'Cause only on racial attacks is when we walk in packs
[04:31.74] We need to stick together daily, understand?
[04:34.26] 'Cause I got more reasons than Philip Bailey, man
[04:37.06] Ayo, us Blacks need to get the facts right
[04:39.61] 'Cause hey it's only right when the Whites see us Blacks fight
[04:42.70] And in the street, niggas fight over concrete
[04:45.23] To make ends meet
[04:46.72] But I see no defeat
[04:48.07] Hey oh we wants no hero
[04:50.13] But I got the 411 on the ghetto
[04:53.04] It's called channel zero
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