Yasiin Bey - Beef lyrics

[Verse] Beef is not what Jay said to Nas Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs So they trying to find n***as to rob Trying to find bigger guns so they can finish the job Beef is when the crack babies can't find moms Cause they in a pine box, or locked behind bars Beef ain't the summer jam for Hot 9-7 Beef is the c**aine and AIDS epidemic Beef don't come with a radio edit Beef is when the judge is callin' you defendant Beef: It come with a long jail sentence Handed down to you in a few short minutes Beef is when your girl come through for a visit To tell you that she pregnant, by some other n***a Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit Need a loan for your home but you're too broke to get it And all your little kids is doing is getting bigger You're trying not to raise 'em around these wild n***as Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her A manicure handout like, "Pay me n***a!" Or I'm telling your wife Or starting up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life Beef is when a gangsta ain't doing it right And other gangstas is deciding what to do with his life Beef is not what these famous n***as do on the mic Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight Beef is what Ja said to 50 But beef is all my homies not being here with me When a soldier ends his life with his own gun Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son Beef is oil prices and geopolitics Beef is Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza Strip Some beef is big and some beef is small But what ya'll call beef is not beef at all Beef is real life happening every day And it's realer than them songs you gave to Kayslay This has been a real n***as P.S.A From Mos Def pretty flaco Black Dante And the Black Star Emba**y B to the K!