Brother Ali - Whatever lyrics

[Verse 1] We live on the edge like mountain climbers and we worship clothes designers If I changed my name to Ralph Lauren I really would shine In the streets we compete For who tag our name the best But we blow our paychecks Stickin' Tommy on our chest Since the d**h of the ??? We made our women freaky They blind like Stevie Thinkin' that life if TV Believe me, in the streets we be bangin' it out Content to let uncle same be the man in our house We waste money and call it cheese Smoke plants and call 'em trees While subsidized daycare workers Raise our seeds We swap body fluids with who's ever with it And think marriage is a big commitment So we want the s** and not the kids We want the check and not the job But most of all we want the blessings But don't answer to God Got a closet full of clothes and empty bank accounts If you ??? we ain't got nothin' we bounce Amounts are too costly for us to go to college But we pay them high interest bail bonds when they lock us This soap opera life got us all hopped up And we don't touch the scriptures 'til we get locked up [Refrain x2] So we do whatever Eat whatever Smoke whatever ---- whoever Wear whatever Shake whatever Sell whatever It's now or never [Verse 2] Yo if grandma and grandpa saw how we behave They would probably roll around like Yo-Yos in their grave Whether is projects or trailer parks, we're all in the dark There's no connectedness, our families falling apart And White suburbanites think they're fleeing the games But then their kids go to school and shoot 'em up like Jesse James The projects are just a carbon copy of the prisons So when we get locked we're just gettin' more original A 6-year-old at the park could probably curse Do the streets make us crazy or is it the vice-versa? We might hurt you if you talk bad about our wife But at night, we beat her within an inch of her life We k** our unborn kids, and no one blows the whistle If you want it it's a baby If you don't it's only tissue We only miss you and cry for you when you die But we ain't got time for that ---- when you're alive We don't apologize, and do get caught with red fingers We don't read newspapers, we watch Jerry Springer Our so-called leaders whine for legislation When the biggest problem we have is our decision making [Refrain x2] [Verse 3] We shake our ---es and life skates past us We love welfare and hate taxes So we pour in the lotto, dice games and the numbers And think it's too risky to invest in one another We call on others ??? But what could that mean? Cause a ??? will turn them into crack fiends We act mean, we act sharp like razor blades We act like animals but we say we hate the cage This soap opera life got us all hopped up And we don't touch the scriptures 'til we get locked up Our so-called leaders whine for legislation When the biggest problem we have is our decision making [Refrain x2]