STREET LIVIN'-Black Eyed Peas

[ti:STREET LIVIN'] [ar:Black Eyed Peas] [al:STREET LIVIN'] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]STREET LIVIN' - Black Eyed Peas [00:02.69]Written by：will.i.am/apl.de.ap/Taboo/Joshua Alverez [00:05.39]Streets streets [00:14.56]Livin' in the streets [00:19.69]Street livin' caught in a trap [00:22.21]Guns or books sell crack or rap [00:24.59]Be like kings or be like pawns [00:26.63]They called us coons now they call us cons [00:29.28]Street niggas be packing pistols [00:31.64]Terrorists be blasting missles [00:34.11]Crips and Bloods and retail thugs [00:36.44]CIA planes bring Colombian *** [00:38.87]Don't push me 'cause I'm close to hell [00:40.96]The teachers in my neighborhood can hardly spell [00:43.26]And compare to them prison guards get payed well [00:45.62]Ten years no bail is 4 years at Yale [00:48.13]So forget about the statue of General Lee [00:50.38]Because the status of blacks are generally [00:52.87]Gonna end up in some penitentiary [00:55.21]Systematically that's how they made it to be [00:57.73]Listen they derailed the soul train [01:00.30]And put a nightmare into every Martin Luther King [01:02.67]And privatized prisons are owned by the same [01:04.91]Slave masters that owned the slave trade game [01:07.56]And racists no longer have to be racist [01:09.61]'Cause niggas kill more niggas than the KKK did [01:12.52]Now every time I hear a new def jam [01:14.49]Niggas killing niggas like they Ku Klux Klan [01:17.35]I understand what's a ni**a to choose [01:19.29]Be the killer or be the dead dude in the news [01:22.17]I get it what's a ni**a to do [01:23.89]No education in the hood got a ni**a confused [01:27.03]Street livin' tough conditions [01:29.32]Brainwashed by the television [01:31.78]We lost in the war we live in [01:34.08]Double cross love lost no religion [01:36.59]Street livin' oh my gosh [01:38.71]Another brother got shot by the searg' [01:41.15]Another cop got off with no charge [01:43.53]If you black in the hood you at large [01:46.02]You're guilty until we prove you're innocent [01:48.35]If you're ivory they treat you different [01:50.72]If you're ebony they assume you're temperament [01:53.09]Well be vigilant and they call you militant [01:55.53]You'll get shot and they'll say the incident [01:57.80]Is 'cause you're beligerent [01:58.86]What a coincidence [02:00.51]Born and bred but you're still an immigrant [02:02.66]If you ain't dead you can see imprisonment [02:05.73]There's more niggas in the prisons than there ever slaves cotton picking [02:10.13]There's more niggas that's rotting in the prisons [02:12.19]Than there ever slaves cotton picking [02:14.87]So how we gon' get out the trap [02:17.36]Guns or books sell crack or rap [02:19.70]Street livin' hustle or hoops [02:22.11]Guns or books get shot or shoot [02:24.66]Street livin' ain't no rules [02:26.77]Break the law make the breakin' news [02:28.99]The life you choose could be the life you lose [02:31.45]Niggas getting stuck for the Nike shoes [02:34.18]Street livin' ain't no joke [02:36.26]It's a cold world better bring your coat [02:38.97]Revoke 'cause the streets are broke [02:40.87]And now they wanna take away our dreams and hopes [02:43.68]Street livin' no economics [02:45.61]No way out of the Reaganomics [02:48.38]Infected by the black plague new bubonic [02:50.79]No comprende we speak ebonics [02:53.28]Street livin' what's your position [02:55.34]You can take action or take a dick [02:57.26]Listen you can get f**ked by the system [03:00.62]Or you can say f**k the system