作曲
H. Bailey、A. Hamilton、T. Moore、J. Buck、T. Kelley、B. Robinson
專輯：Hate It Or Love It
歌曲：How We Feel
作曲：H. Bailey、A. Hamilton、T. Moore、J. Buck、T. Kelley、B. Robinson
Either they don't know
don't show
Or don't care abou
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
