[00:01.14]Dlot reven ev'I seirots[00:03.44]Re— real[00:07.15]Re— Re— real[00:09.46]Won litnu[00:10.42]Real stories[00:12.19][00:12.39]"Aaron is so cute", that's what they used to say to me[00:16.04]Ninth grade, young female teachers, almost every day to me[00:18.86]That's when I wore the high top fade and curly freeze with bravery[00:21.96]'Cause the gangstas say it ain't the way to be[00:23.67]But all of the women hella thought I was savory (Mhm)[00:25.17][00:26.32]In my Guess fit, popular, you guessed it[00:28.41]Hip-hop dancer and rapper, in the talent shows, I blessed it[00:32.10]Hardly rode the bus home 'cause I stayed after[00:34.54]Displayed laughter with the grade passer, I'm a lay master[00:36.95]And everybody know that I'm a babe catcher[00:38.06]Walking home on cloud nine, a hundred percent man about mine[00:41.28]Then I crossed the way[00:42.14]There was a grown man stopped at a red light hella on shout time[00:44.55]He said "Hey!"[00:45.33][00:45.63]When I looked I was thinking that[00:46.53]I hope this person ain't pistol-happy[00:47.84]Then right before he drove off[00:49.19]The man blew a kiss my way and then he whistled at me[00:50.60]I'm like, "Mother—" then he sped off, I was thinking,[00:52.70]"Man" I wanna tear his head off"[00:53.95]Then I stopped 'cause I was tripping, walking[00:56.01]I was almost home, I kept dipping[00:57.15]Got home, then I asked my mama,[00:58.71]"Why did he say hey at me instead of hey at a girl?"[01:00.59]Then my mom just looked right at me and said,[01:02.59]"Baby dawg, that's the way of the world"[01:04.00][01:04.20]Later that night I hooked up with two homies[01:05.85]To work on a dance routine[01:07.00]Got it done then allotted some time[01:08.56]To holla at some fine and scan boo things[01:10.01]But when my two homies seen two dudes hugged up[01:12.62]Now they really mean to feud[01:13.69]I said, "Yo" then some cray happened[01:15.10]One of the homies said, "Time for gay bashing"[01:16.55]The two ran up and attacked the dudes[01:18.20]I don't know what they thought they had to prove[01:19.76]They was swinging with so much attitude[01:21.21]But I could not deal with all that abuse[01:22.91]I said, "What in the ****?[01:24.17]Y'all done messed up, it ain't peaceful[01:26.27]You know it's effed up and plus evil[01:27.79]So why in the hell are you doing that to innocent people?"[01:29.85][01:30.09]Feel so sad, I'm not perfect[01:34.75]Always kill, feel so sad and I can't see it slowing[01:42.58]Feel so sad, I'm not perfect[01:46.73]Always kill, feel so sad and I can't see it slowing[01:54.69][01:55.25]Sophomore year, man, I lost more tears[01:57.75]'Cause of people hating people and it cost more fear[02:00.90]My school, it was the stash spot for gangstas with rag tops[02:04.46]You'd get your ass shot, that year we had so many mascots[02:07.63]How could we do no wrong? And schools were integrated[02:11.13]How could we do no wrong? Racism demonstrated[02:14.20]Better be moving on before I'm eliminated[02:17.45]Possibly use the chrome because I've been degraded[02:20.72]Scratch that, I'm not that cat[02:21.83]I would never wanna keep a rat-tat in my backpack[02:24.93]Never had nobody to snap at, I'm a class act[02:27.19]But one day somebody had doom[02:28.44]We heard two blacks got stab wounds[02:30.11]And got beat and kicked, white elites and shit[02:31.66]When the lights went out in the bathroom[02:33.24][02:33.54]Everybody was heated, people been mistreated[02:36.34]It's a damn shame that a Klan came and gave a man pain[02:39.05]A misdeed hit 'cause of skin tone[02:40.47]Them gone to the hospital from a sin zone[02:42.98]Skin domes doing them wrong you can send home[02:45.39]But they been gone[02:46.19]Now everybody on edge[02:47.59]Classroom break to the bathroom[02:49.00]Seen hood niggas and they all want heads[02:50.72]Bad moon, hate taking that tune[02:52.43]They said to me, "When the whites come in[02:54.38]We gon' hit the lights and gon' get they ass"[02:55.84]I said to all of 'em, "Is this a gag?"[02:57.20]Nah, they wanna break 'em all like Mr. Glass[02:59.16]It happened, the whites en route[03:00.76]Cracking, the lights went out[03:02.31]I laid to the floor[03:03.07]Then I found my way to the door, away from the gore[03:05.42]The hoods came out[03:06.33]Bloody and sweaty, I said, "That shit ain't regal[03:08.48]In fact, that shit is evil[03:10.30]So why in the hell are you doing that to innocent people?"[03:11.91][03:12.30]Feel so sad, I'm not perfect[03:16.06]Always kill, feel so sad and I can't see it slowing[03:24.17]Feel so sad, I'm not perfect[03:28.83]Always kill, feel so sad and I can't see it slowing[03:37.66]Feel so sad, I'm not perfect[03:41.97]Always kill, feel so sad and I can't see it slowing