It's really real, when I feel the way that I do right nowI see all my brothers undergroundPushing up daisies, man, it amazes meThat you can't see where you gonna beA statistic, everybody's gon' call ballisticIf you had a good day, damn, I must have missed itCause you mad at the Universe,Going to hell with everybody else cause you want yourOwn firstI got the urge to let you in on a little secretCause you keep dying if I keep itAll the keeling that you're feeling is from withinFor the copper check the color of your skinWhy lie? I couldn't try even if I had toBorn with the bullet-proof vest when I had youA black woman trying to get through to the fewSo you can leave the next crew5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mind5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mindWhy should I do right and sufferI rather do wrong making that loopy and that hustlerInstead of hot-dogs I'm eating porks up in their smotherAnd got a gang of loot up in the safe up in my coversOn top of all that I push big fat LexAnd got my hoes that in golf course just in case I feel
Like flexingSo I must ask, for real though, who are youSee, I'm a big manYeah, you know you'se a big man, check itI went for twelve years to school and never could readA knowledge of my hood is something they can neverTeach meI never started to step but I kept up with the JonesesHaving rollers... my little pinky???I did a lot of kinky thing the girls knew it, flock into itI'm around my old way, yeah, they still wants to do itIts not about the clothes that you got on your backBut the money in your pocket and if you're down likeThatCome on5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mind5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mindWella, Mr. Black Man tell me where you're headingThe last few years I watched while you were sheadingPounds and pounds on growth for the populationSoon we won't be able to have a strong black nationA shooting here, a stabbing there nowhere to stopCause now you're dying from the dose of the crackRockI'm just a Nubian Queen that needs a king to standStrongAnd try to press onIt's not a white man's finger on the triggerCar-jacks, drive-by's, callin' each other "nigga"I'm not here to scold but rather shape n' moldThat young black mind that won't live to grow oldCause you're fronting smoking on the blunt andDown with your friends cause you think you're makingEnds,But you're not - and that's the truth of the matterYour brother gettin' skinny, cause you want yourPockets fatter5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mind5 o'clock in the morning. Where you gonna be?(Outside on the corner)You better get yourself togetherWhile you're wasting all your timeRight along with your mind