Letter To The President-2Pac

[ti:Letter To The President] [ar:2Pac] [al:Still I Rise] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Letter To The President - 2Pac (图派克) [00:01.67]Written by：Unknown [00:03.34]Uh dear Mr President what's happening I'm writing you because [00:09.22]Sh*t is still real f**ked up in my neighborhood [00:12.53]Pretty much the same way right around the time [00:14.96]When you got elected ain't nothing changed all the [00:18.88]Promises you made before you got elected they ain't came true [00:23.57]Tell me what to do these niggaz acting up in the hood [00:25.71]Send mo troops dear Mr President [00:26.95]Tell me what to do these niggaz acting up in the hood [00:29.64]Send mo troops [00:30.34]Why should I lie when I can dramatize [00:32.11]Niggaz fell victim to my lyrics now traumatized [00:34.28]Simply by spitting I've been blessed given riches [00:36.75]Enemies suspicious cause I'm seldom in the company of b**ches [00:39.47]Plus the concepts I depict so visual that you can kiss [00:42.87]Each and every trick or b**ch inside the sh*t I kick [00:45.54]My heaviest verse'll move a mountain [00:47.92]Casualties in mass amounts brothers keep counting [00:50.37]F**k the friendships I ride alone [00:51.93]Destination death Row finally found a home [00:54.23]Plus all my homies wanna die call it euthanasia [00:56.70]Dear Lord look how sick this ghetto made us sincerely [00:59.28]Yours I'm a thug the product of a broken home [01:02.92]Everybody's d**ed up ni**a what you smoking on [01:05.26]Figure if we high they can train us [01:08.12]But then America f**ked up and blamed up [01:10.26]I guess it's cause we black that we targets [01:12.99]My only fear is god I spit that hard sh*t [01:15.40]In case you don't know I let my pump go [01:17.69]Get ride for M Thulu like I ride for Geronimo [01:19.60]Down to die for everything I represent [01:22.48]Meant every word in my letter to the President [01:24.92]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [01:27.31]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [01:29.89]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [01:32.39]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [01:35.14]Oh youse a ball in the White House I hope you comfortable [01:37.76]Cause yo I spend my nights out with the lights out [01:39.84]Under the safety of darkness amongst the crazed and the heartless [01:42.47]And young soul bros ready to rode a starship [01:44.51]Launch it leave a ni**a flat for scratch the Godless [01:47.42]I gotta get chips but you can't understand that [01:49.71]Wanna ban rap Stand back before you get hurt [01:52.19]It's the only thing making pay besides smoke and work [01:54.54]On a mission listen more chips my goal and position [01:57.07]First on my decision I realized the same ni**a [01:59.42]Tripping to drastic measures tryin to get stacks of cheddar [02:01.96]Muh f**kers hate cops wait it ain't getting better [02:04.37]But you keep telling us that it is [02:06.43]While your motherf**king troops keep killing our kids dig [02:08.92]Don't be surprised if you see us [02:11.41]Dumping with nutting but artillery to free us motherf**ker [02:14.23]Dear Mr President tell us what to do [02:16.81]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [02:19.42]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [02:21.64]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [02:24.31]Strapped and angry with no hope and heartbroke [02:26.53]Fighting first my trained brain until it's not so [02:29.31]It's hostile niggaz lick shots to watch the glocks glow [02:31.86]Cadres of coppers patrol us like we some animals [02:34.01]And it ain't no peace my peace a piece on my streets [02:36.67]To people beefing and things squeaking on they beefs for weeks [02:38.84]Mr President it's evident nobody really care [02:41.34]For a struggle out the gutter twenty two with gray hair [02:43.92]I was raised to raise hell frail and my heart stale [02:46.48]So I'ma bring hell to earth until my heart fail [02:48.95]But yall play fair give me and mine I'll share [02:51.30]Til yall show us you care it's gong be mayhem out here [02:53.88]Me and these two two three sll freeze the biggest with ease [02:56.39]I'm still a ni**a you fear bring the beast to his knees [02:58.88]And I've been born to represent for that I've been heaven sent [03:01.52]And I meant every word in my letter to the President [03:04.58] [03:05.09]Sh*t is still f**ked up yall [03:07.14] [03:08.36]And you'll wonder when it's gong get better [03:10.81]And it ain't gong get better [03:12.44] [03:14.20]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [03:16.18]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [03:18.78]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [03:20.95]These niggaz acting up [03:22.09]Heavenly Father may I holla at you briefly [03:24.58]I wanna meet the President but will he meet me [03:27.50]He's scared to look inside the eyes of a Thug Ni**a [03:29.97]We tired of being scapegoats for this capitalistic drug dealing [03:32.97]How hypocritical is Liberty [03:34.48]That blind b**ch ain't never did sh*t for me [03:37.42]My history full of casket and scars [03:39.53]My own black nation at war whole family behind bars [03:42.57]And they wonder why we scarred thirteen looking hard [03:45.85]Sister had a baby as an adolescent where was God [03:48.50]Somewhere in the middle of my mind [03:50.70]Is a ni**a on the tightrope screaming let him die [03:53.15]Can't lie I'm a thug drowning in my own blood [03:55.99]Looking for the reason that my momma's strung out on drugs [03:58.23]Down to die for everything I represent [04:00.43]Meant every word in my letter to the President [04:03.11]Blacks is broke think it's a joke that we living low [04:05.75]Yall sniffing blow and posting what they hitting fo [04:08.32]Tell the secretary it's necessary we get paid [04:10.51]Look what you made little kids getting sprayed [04:12.89]Day after day and night after night battles and wars to the daylight [04:16.89]We might change and rearrange if you do something [04:19.99]Til then we gonna keep it coming Mr President [04:22.63]And I meant every word in my letter to the President [04:27.65]Word motherf**king life f**k this ni**a think [04:32.01]Cutting taxes taking off welfare [04:33.43]We sposed to just sit here go broke and die starving [04:36.51]This motherf**ker's crazier than motherf**king [04:39.82]Ni**a this thug life westside outlaw immortalz ni**a [04:42.39]We fing to hustle til we come up tell me what to do [04:45.12]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [04:47.41]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [04:49.76]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [04:52.45]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [04:54.77]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [04:57.10]Dear Mr President tell me what to do [04:59.74]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops [05:02.21]Dear Mr Clinton sh*t [05:06.69]It's getting harder and harder for a motherf**ker [05:08.74]To make a dollar in these here streets [05:10.27]I mean sh*t I hear you screaming peace [05:12.32]But we can't find peace [05:13.93]Til my little niggaz on these streets get a piece [05:16.00]I know you feel me cause you too near me not to hear me [05:19.53]So why don't you help a ni**a out [05:21.57]Saying you cutting welfare that got us niggaz on the street [05:24.70]Thinking who in the hell care [05:26.43]Sh*t you'll want us to put down our glocks and our rocks [05:29.87]But you'll ain't ready to give us no motherf**king dollars [05:32.41]What happened to our forty acres and a mule fool [05:36.10] [05:36.77]We ain't stupid think you got us looking to lose [05:40.17]Trying to turn all us young niggaz into troops [05:42.23]You want us to fight your war what the f**k I'm fighting for [05:45.70]Sh*t I ain't got no love here I ain't had a check all year [05:49.96]Taxing all the blacks and police beating me in the streets [05:53.99]F**k peace [05:54.66]These niggaz acting up in the hood send mo troops troops troops