Priority Records - The Evil That Men Do lyrics

[Intro] Psssshh, I guess n***as don't realize a good thing til it's gone You know what I'm sayin man? Running around in these streets trickin, sh**'s hard man You know? But sometimes man Fools be bringin that sh** on they god damn self [Verse 1] Nappy headed n***a stigmatism at birth Born to a family of four and so that makes me one-fourth Of a dysfunctional home I had a father who only stayed to see me grown When I turned twelve he was gone Alone, no role model I used to watch my Granddaddy and Uncle hit the bottle And then hit each other Granddaddy beat Grandmother, but that's before my time But I still see how it affected her mind As a child I introverted, and drew pictures While my mother prayed to Jesus reading King James scriptures She used to take me to church so I could put money in the basket Tell the preacher how she used to get her a** kicked And me, I mastered the art of hatred After pops left ran with my n***as tryin to take sh** Petty theft, I got caught a few times, but bust it Life is a b**h so f** it In eighty-one I remember the night I covered myself with baby powder, so my black a** could be light Cause God is white, and Bo Derek is a ten I hate my black skin, it's just a sin to be a n***a Then again, I'm like the Frenchman, cause Granny's creole And therefore, we're black French people So I think it's best if I go to Catholic school And study under nuns and then I'll be a Catholic fool Cause none of these courts want none of us up And don't none want to see none of us live to be adults, sheeit No wonder brothers take lives for red and blue It's the evil that men do [Hook] But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop [Interlude] n***a, n***a wake yo' punk a** up n***a! n***a *smack* *smack* wake yo', wake yo' punk a** up!! *siren* (Where the f** we at?) *helicopter* n***a, one time n***a (Man I feel strange man, and I'm fin to go man) sh**, I'mma get you out, sh**, b**hes man) (f** that sh** man, n***a what the f** am I gonna do man?) *siren* We go make another gold LP n***a stop trippin n***a n***a we own a gold LP, n***a stop trippin! [Verse 2] By the time I hit adolescence and found hair on my nuts I grew twelve inches so now it's time to f** s*uts Never respected women, just had to keep my dick wet f**ed this virgin named Lena, I made a bet With my homies I could hit it first, then kicked her to the curb Til next year, I got a call from my man Kurt Since I never used jims I left a seed in the Earth That left a n***a feelin like dirt Cause now I'm a father, and got a two-week old daughter Ironically, don't even know her name it's a damn shame And ol girl never told me she was havin my baby The more I thought about, she f**in played me Cause the family's lookin at me like I raped her Plus with another f**in mouth to feed I need paper Did a caper, and took my Guinness Stout to the head September 1990, drunk drivin, the light turned red Somebody hit from the rear, I hit the brakes Then lost control of the steering wheel Hit a black Camaro and that's all I remember that night I woke up to a 5-0 flashlight The car that I hit had exploded on impact One woman escaped, but the driver was trapped, he burned to d**h Manslaughter, off to C-Y-A Liftin weights in the yard and playin spades all day Now I'm eighteen, hit the County in the mix "Name and last three!" Austin, oh-six-six By now Grandpa went crazy and my Uncle had died And me I'm at the ranch makin pruno in Wayside In ninety-three, I got probation Searchin for an occupation, cause now I'm payin restitution, confusion I'm lookin at myself and seein every other n***a I knew It's the evil that men do [Hook] But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop But every n***a on my block can't stop And it won't stop And it don't stop