[Hook]
Everybody's
Eyes red, living the blues, looking for
The green IOUs, yellow-bellied schemes
Run by dirty shoes, purple rain leaves
A short in your fuse, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman
[Verse 1: Oracle]
I see
Mothers crying, babies dying
Brothers high and sisters lying
People fighting, UFO sightings
United Nations meetings that make laws tighten
Emcees writing nothing to enlighten
Just trying to get that money now or on consignment
I seen tyrants make this world seem vibrant
And peaceful when this shit is just violent and lethal
The lies I see through like Miss Cleo, but them cars
They never lie still, so what's the deal? Where you from?
The inner city slums filled with drugs and guns
And cops keep the ghetto youth on the run
Or were you born in a mansion with ‘nough funds?
Trying to spend cash at random to have fun?
Or are you stuck between the rich and the fiends?
Trying to come clean in this world of dirty scenes?
Fighting against the hate, envy, and greed
That control the scenes of American dreams
Tell the president in D.C. a new breed of emcees
Were born to set the people free. Can’t knock the game
Or stop the reign. We've been rocking this way
Before we got that radio play, and now
The public loves it, bumps it, shoves it
To the forefront to rip the function. This
Microphone abduction, we run the house, yeah
We in here, time to let the funk break out
[Hook]
Everybody's
Eyes red, living the blues, looking for
The green IOUs, yellow-bellied schemes
Run by dirty shoes, purple rain leaves
A short in your fuse, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman
[Verse 2: Kimani]
I'm from the Planet
Of Uptown, where niggas is bucked down, the cops hunted
Us now and don't give a fuck now, where the mayor
Sucks now, y'all peoples lucked out. Now you've been
Endowed by the sounds from the Masterminds dugout
It's bugged. I grew up in a brick building that, God willing
Is the same place that I'ma raise my children
Right on 97th Street, right around the corner from
Goat Park, where Rock Steady broke in the dark. What was
A part of my neighborhood became my whole lifestyle
Ever since the very first day I seen Wild Style
83rd Quad switched to 84 6th, we had
Decepticons, now we got Crips, all of this. You know
I still stay a fan of the Knicks, I'm true blue, and any-
-body gon’ diss, they get chopped like a bris. I can
Knock out a list of all the places I've been
But New York stays up under my skin. From an island with more
Puerto Ricans than down in Puerto Rico, where there's
A GAP, Blockbuster, Starbucks wherever we go
But people of my skin tone is never treated equal
And just about anything is legal. Place where there's
No need to drive, you could hop on the train
And the baseball team always reigns, where graffiti’s got a home
On 106th and a walk-on is famed
And nobody ever knows you by name. From a place with the best
Girls around, Black, Dominican, Asian
Puerto Rican, Jamaican, White, and Indian Haitian
So much ass in abundance, out-of-towners been hating
Come to visit for a minute, and they end up relocating
[Hook]
Everybody's
Eyes red, living the blues, looking for
The green IOUs, yellow-bellied schemes
Run by dirty shoes, purple rain leaves
A short in your fuse, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman, fade to black
Confusion you in, made to crack
You’re only hueman
