Lately I've been in a life like limbo

Looking out of a smudged up window

We're not sure where our lives are going

Friends, it's summer outside but yet we're snowed in

Don't know where our next dollar's coming from

Living the life of a poor musician

Headliner's strong so he keeps his 9 to 5

Cutting brothers' hair as a means of staying alive

If it wasn't for the rhythm

I think we would have given up by now

This system has gotten the best of me

Now I pray for God to invest in me

My dignity, invest his glory

Give me the strength so I can finnish the story

Keep on searching for the right way to go out

coz going out is what it's all about

huh! You can't be passive, gotta be active

Can't go with what looks attractive

Gotta learn all I can while I'm able

Headliner expresses his feeling on those turntables

When we get our chance

to make a good living of the music we program

We don't sell out just to be sold out

Brothers and sisters, do you know what I'm yapping about ?

Coz if they take away our contract

we still got talent and we still got contacts

Coz we're worked real hard to get this far

We're catching the bus before we bought the car

Ya see !



[CHORUS:]

[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day

Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever] (2x)



Got to get political

Political I gotta get

Grown but can't hold my own

So this government needs to be overthrown

Brothers with the AKs and the 9 MMs

need to learn how to correctly shoot'em

Save those rounds for a revolution

Poor whites and blacks bumrushing the system

But I tell you: Ain't no room for gangstaz

Coz ganstaz do dirty work and get pi