How We Feel - Anthony Hamilton&Chingy
Either they don't know,
don't show
Or don't care about
what's going on in the hood
Uh, uh, yeah, uh, yeah, yeah,
This your boy chingaling man
Need to talk to the world real quick
Talk to 'em, man,
You know we got a lot of
problems going on
In the inner city,
In the ghetto, in the hood
They ain't hearin' you,
Ain't nobody touchin' on,
democrats Republicans, all those folks,
you know they don't care
What's going on in the ghetto anyway
Everyday I wake up with a
regular mentality
But I'm a target on the street
And that's just reality
Cats in the ghetto ain't
never had a high salary
Except makin' deals and
selling blow in the alley
See, the system was
made for us to fail,
Look at the jails
Overpopulated with Mexicans
and young black males
I ain't tellin' the tale so we
choose heaven or hell
Don't care about letters from school
We'd rather get street mail
I been a witness to some murders
Snitchin'I do without it
But then I wonder
Why the damn police don't
do nothing about it
Go to the unemployment office,
Hell, yeah, it's crowded
Our hoods takin' wrong turns,
Now it's time to reroute it
I know a lil' dude, 13,
Carry a burner dropped
out of school
Teacher said he wasn't
a fast learner
Sometimes I wonder,
In 20 years I wonder
where we gon' be
When I say we,
I mean my black community,
ya digg
They don't know
how it feels to hurt so long
'Cause they never
walked in these shoes
And they never had to
cry these blues
How many men
turn their back on us so long
Always say what they gon' do
But they never
seem to come through
Pardon my French
but I don't think
We ready for a lady president
It's evident that it's a mans
world so that's irrelevant
The system think we all
niggas and we not intelligent
But Martin Luther and
Malcolm taught me
Before I'm heaven sent
The girls havin' kids and
they still some kids
Poppin' them out one
after another like
that's what it is
It's innocent cats doin' bizz,
they just tryin' to life
And the police don't even know
If the crime they did
It's got my brain in a twist,
So I'm twistin' a leaf
On my balcony smokin'
And drinkin' trying to
see some relief
If I can change our
neighborhoods I would,
Put that on me
This world messed up and
that Stevie Wonder can see
So to my dogs locked down
set ya mind free
'Cause you and I don't even believe
You can get your degree
Sometimes I wonder in 20 years
where we gon' be
And when I say we I mean
my black community,
Let's go
They don't know how it
feels to hurt so long
'Cause they never walked
in these shoes
And they never had to cry these blues
How many men turn their
back on us so long
Always say what they gon' do
But they never seem to
come through
I twist the cap off the bottle,
Take a sip and see tomorrow
Like pac, wash away the sorrow
While police hit the block
I be up all night, askin'
God for the truth
He told me thinking translated
In my own words in the booth
Try to reach the youth 'cause
that's what matters today
I'm ain't too religious
But I get on my knees and pray
Sometimes I wonder in
20 years where we gon' be
I ain't gotta wonder no more,
My people rollin' with me, yeah
They don't know
how it feels to hurt so long
'Cause they never
walked in these shoes
And they never
had to cry these blues
How many men turn
their back on us so long
Always say what they gon' do
But they never
seem to come through
Yeah, they'll never
come through, wo, oh, oh
They don't know about this thing.