How We Feel

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