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[Chorus: Woman singing]
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I see people hating other people
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Tell me what's the reason
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That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
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What's the reason?
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
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If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'
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Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one
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By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment
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And we die then, so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects
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Watchin' them older ni***z pass pot and they high man
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I'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappy
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Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me
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So I would go to school and try to get good grades
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Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids
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So she cussed them, said "My son ain't no motherfuckin' hoodlum"
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They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from
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Got a little older and now I see
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Young ni***z wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)
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[Chorus: Woman singing]
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I see people hating other people
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Tell me what's the reason
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That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
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What's the reason?
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For these wars we're fighting with each other
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Season after season
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When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
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What's the reason?
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Uh, picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
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She never had it, it's not hers to begin with
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She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners
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Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on
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Ain't had a good meal in so long, but so long as mommy's a maid
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Cookin' and cleanin', she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'
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Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him?
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I could imagine them askin', what type of human be-ing
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Could leave his family, go back to the Carribean?
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Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom?
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Mom said wipe your tears, keep readin'
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But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feelin' defeated
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A man feels he has to conquer all
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The world is his oyster, his pearl so y'all know
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[Chorus: Woman singing]
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I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace
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'Cause this world keeps spinning, yet still I wonder what's the reason
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I see people hating other people
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Tell me what's the reason
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When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'
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What's the reason?
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Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa
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[Verse 3: Nas]
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I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitive
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She's intuitive, be on some stupid s**t
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She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother
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Now he away doin' numbers, now she g** with her lover
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How many ni***z gon' die this summer?
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I pump life in my music, but still life is a wonder
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There's a officer in a squad car, he's a prostitute serial killer
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It's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife
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He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night
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Little bad a** b*****d, lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
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In her pad while she slept
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They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twister
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***a, what you expect? Imagine what's next
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[Chorus: Woman singing]
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I see people hating other people
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Tell me what's the reason
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That your kid is hungry, you ain't got no money
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What's the reason?
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For these wars we're fighting with each other
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Season after season
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When you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'
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What's the reason?
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[Woman harmonizes as Nas talks:]
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"Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet, looking for what
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Try to conquer all. So what? To all my ni***z with they
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Kids that love they kids, man. All the daddies out there
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To all the ni***z that died tryin'a figure out what's what
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Tryin'a be the biggest of the big, you know. Yeah, yeah
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Ladies forgive us. Gotta forgive us. For we know not what
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We do. Breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib, buggin' out and
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s**t. Just man... Man. "
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