Drugs, political thugs, nickel and dime crimes

Times ain't bad it's just about that time

A nickel's enough to get sprayed for

Because gems ain't the only rocks you get paid for

Get laid, sure, check the corner

For a buck you can do anything you want on her

Next week same place no she's not

She kicked the bucket from what you just got

Man listen, it's hard enough just to survive

Newborns hot up with dope, to stay alive

Poor lady, she ditched her cause she couldn't feed her

So where's her mother? Huh, she ain't no better either

Say the hell with school that ain't cool you fool

Learn the science of the other man's rule

Books you forget, knowledge you forfeit

Stay legit, just don't do it

Go and pursue it, you gotta fight to

Attain all the things you got a right to

And when you get it good, but damn we

got to boost up the family



Boost up the family, I'm here to reach and teach

Each and all who comprehend my speech

What does a door mean to you and me?

The door's locked and we don't have the key

But we do, it's under the rug you think I'm bugged

My concept's snug

In the pocket, they tell me rock it

I say sure fellas, long as I sell hell Jaz is the swellest

Remember when they asked a man what's your program?

He said different plan but same objective man

Socialism, a cripplin disease

Can't see the forest for the trees, people please

Who wears the clothes our parents paid for

Who sells the gold our people saved for

The writing's on the wall you know who did this

I see it too but I'm the wrong kinda witness

Homeboys on the rock way up-state

How're you livin he said? "I'm livin great"

Havin a good time for doin a large crime

Boost up the family in the name of my rhyme



We'll tumble down for sure if we don't stop

Chippin away at the mountaintop

Chase and hunt me yeah those boys want me

Ignorance is prison, now I'm free

Throw up a peace sign shout it in a stadium

At the Palladium speak in an auditorium

We'll overcome, no? Well come and get some

Feel the drums, cold get dumb

Knowledge em off the face

Yo proceed with the human race

He's ya boos huh, you let im bass you

This ain't his house, he's from another place too

Livin life is triflin as a mans's toy

Eve of destruction, you need a friend boy

On the move the destroy

The mind is the power, the money is the decoy

For the causse I am fightin

My hands sweat but the pen keeps writin

Liberals, the deecptive weapon

Told a man named Jackson to get to steppin

Somebody said to say it loud we're black and we're proud

The people he reused are lost in the crowd

Rebel? Don't dare, our uncle's so fair

Ya gettin paid but ya ain't goin nowhere

I'm sayin what I see see what I'm sayin?

Better start prayin; I ain't playin

Can we survive? Tell me somethin can we?

Who's to spruce, to juice, boost the family