Street livin' caught in a trap
Guns or books sell crack or rap
Be like kings or be like pawns
They called us coons
now they call us cons
Street niggas be packing pistols
Terrorists be blasting missles
Crips and bloods and retail thugs
CIA planes bring Columbian drugs
Don't push me
cause I'm close to hell
And compare to them
prison guards get payed well
Ten years no bail
is 4 years at Yale
So forget about the statue
of General Lee
Because the status
of blacks are generally
Are gonna end up
in some penitentiary
Systematically that's how
they made it to be
Listen they derailed the soul
train
And put a nightmare
into every Martin Luther kING
And private complexes
are owned by the same
Slave masters that owned
the slave trade game
And racists no longer
have to be racist
Cause niggas kill more niggas
than the KKK did
Now every time
I hear a new def jam
Niggas killing niggas
like they Ku Klux Klan
I understand
what's a nigga to choose
Be the killer or be the dead
dude in the news
I get it what's a nigga to do
No education in the hood
got a nigga confused
Street livin' tough conditions
Brainwashed by the television
We lost in the war we live in
Double cross love lost no religion
Street livin' oh my gosh
Another brother got shot
by the searg'
Another cop got off with no charge
If you black in the hood
you at large
You're guilty
until we prove you're innocent
If you're ivory
they treat you different
If you're ebony
they assume your temperment
Well be vigilant
and they call you militant
You'll get shot
and they'll say the incident
Is because you're beligerent
What a coincidence
If you ain't dead
you can see imprisonment
It's more niggas in the prisons
than there ever slaves
cotton picking
There's more niggas in the prisons
than there ever
slaves cotton picking
So how we gon' get out the trap
Guns or books sell crack or rap
Street livin' hustle or hoops
Guns or books get shot or shoot
Street livin' ain't no rules
Break the law make the breakin' news
The life you choose
could be the life you lose
Niggas getting stuck
for the Nike shoes
Street livin' ain't no joke
It's a cold world
better bring your coat
Revoke cause the streets are broke
Now they wanna take away
our dreams and hopes
Street livin' no economics
No way out of the Reaganomics
Infected by the black
plague new bubonic
No comprende we speak ebonics
Street livin'
what's your position
You can take action
or take a **** and listen
you can get ****ed by the system
Or you can say **** the system
STREET LIVIN'