Come on come on. That's just the way it is. Things'll never be the same. That's just the way it is, aww yeah. I see no changes all I see is racist faces misplaced hate makes disgrace to races. We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let's erase the wasted. Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right 'cause both black and white is smokin' crack tonight and only time we chill is when we kill each other, it takes skill to be real, time to heal each other. And although it seems heaven sent We ain't ready, to see a black President, uhh It ain't a secret don't conceal the fact the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks But some things will never change try to show another way but you stayin' in the dope game Now tell me what's a mother to do bein' real don't appeal to the brother in you. You gotta operate the easy way "I made a G today" But you made it in a sleazy way sellin' crack to the kid. " I gotta get paid," Well hey, well that's the way it is We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive. And still I see no changes can't a brother get a little peace. It's war on the streets & the war in the Middle East. Instead of war on poverty they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did a crime I ain't have to do. But now I'm back with the blacks givin' it back to you. Don't let 'em jack you up, back you up, crack you up and pimp slap you up. You gotta learn to hold ya own they get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone. But tell the cops they can't touch this I don't trust this when they try to rush I bust this. That's the sound of my tool you say it ain't cool my mama didn't raise no fool. And as long as I stay black I gotta stay strapped & I never get to lay back 'Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs some buck that I roughed up way back comin' back after all these years rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh.