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.