Drugs, political thugs, nickel and dime crimes   Times ain't bad it's just about that time   A nickel's enough to get sprayed for   Because gems ain't the only rocks you get paid for   Get laid, sure, check the corner   For a buck you can do anything you want on her   Next week same place no she's not   She kicked the bucket from what you just got   Man listen, it's hard enough just to survive   Newborns hot up with dope, to stay alive   Poor lady, she ditched her cause she couldn't feed her   So where's her mother? Huh, she ain't no better either   Say the hell with school that ain't cool you fool   Learn the science of the other man's rule   Books you forget, knowledge you forfeit   Stay legit, just don't do it   Go and pursue it, you gotta fight to   Attain all the things you got a right to   And when you get it good, but damn we   got to boost up the family      Boost up the family, I'm here to reach and teach   Each and all who comprehend my speech   What does a door mean to you and me?   The door's locked and we don't have the key   But we do, it's under the rug you think I'm bugged   My concept's snug   In the pocket, they tell me rock it   I say sure fellas, long as I sell hell Jaz is the swellest   Remember when they asked a man what's your program?   He said different plan but same objective man   Socialism, a cripplin disease   Can't see the forest for the trees, people please   Who wears the clothes our parents paid for   Who sells the gold our people saved for   The writing's on the wall you know who did this   I see it too but I'm the wrong kinda witness   Homeboys on the rock way up-state   How're you livin he said? "I'm livin great"   Havin a good time for doin a large crime   Boost up the family in the name of my rhyme      We'll tumble down for sure if we don't stop   Chippin away at the mountaintop   Chase and hunt me yeah those boys want me   Ignorance is prison, now I'm free   Throw up a peace sign shout it in a stadium   At the Palladium speak in an auditorium   We'll overcome, no? Well come and get some   Feel the drums, cold get dumb   Knowledge em off the face   Yo proceed with the human race   He's ya boos huh, you let im bass you   This ain't his house, he's from another place too   Livin life is triflin as a mans's toy   Eve of destruction, you need a friend boy   On the move the destroy   The mind is the power, the money is the decoy   For the causse I am fightin   My hands sweat but the pen keeps writin   Liberals, the deecptive weapon   Told a man named Jackson to get to steppin   Somebody said to say it loud we're black and we're proud   The people he reused are lost in the crowd   Rebel? Don't dare, our uncle's so fair   Ya gettin paid but ya ain't goin nowhere   I'm sayin what I see see what I'm sayin?   Better start prayin; I ain't playin   Can we survive? Tell me somethin can we?   Who's to spruce, to juice, boost the family?