Who We Be

Uh yeah anutha one of those This is for my nigga Q Down to earth joint (rest in peace baby) You know how we roll There's so many that don't know They don't know (This goes out to my nigga Q) Who We Be (Rest in peace baby) They don't know Who We Be What they don't know is The bullshit The drama The guns The armor The city The farmer The babies The mama The projects The drugs The children The thugs The tears The hugs The love The slugs The funerals The wakes The churches The coffins The heart broken mothers It happens To often The problems The things We used to solve em Yonkers The Bronx Brooklyn Harlem The hurt The pain The dirt The rain The jerk The fame The work The game The friends The foes The Benz The hoes The studios to shows Comes and it goes The jealousy The envy The phoney The friendly The one that gave me slugs The one that put em in me The snakes The grass Too long Too see The lawnmower Sittin Right next To the tree They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be What we seein is The streets The cops The system Harrassment The options Get shot Go to jail Or get ya ass kicked The lawyers The part They are Of the puzzle The release The warning Try not to get in trouble The snitches The eyes Probation Parole The new charge The bail The warrant The hole The cell The bus The ride Up north The greens The boots The yard You caught The fightin The stabbin The pullin The grabbin The wire that squired the captain Nobody knows what happened For 2 years in a box Revenge The plots The 23 hours thats locked The 1 hour thats not The silence The dark The mind So fragile The wish That the streets Would've took you When they had you The days The months The years Despair One night On my knees Here it comes The prayer They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be This here is all about My wife My kids The life That I live Through the night I was his It was right What I did My ups And downs My slips My falls My trials and tribulations My heart My balls My mother My father I love em I hate em Wish God I didn't have em But I'm glad That he made em The roaches The rats The strays The cats The guns knives and bats Everytime we scrap The hustlin The dealin The robbin The stealin This shit Hit the ceiling Little boy Wit no feelins The frustration Rage Trapped inside a cage The beatins til they age Of carryin' a 12 gage Somebody stop me(please) Somebody come and get me Little did I know That the Lord Was rydin wit me The dark The light My heart The fight The wrong The right It's done Aight?! They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be They don't know Who We Be Repeat till end DMX talkin Man listen These muthafuckas don't know Who we are They don't know They couldn't possibly fuckin know dog That's from the heart