I got something i want y'all to do

Take a look around



Take a look around, take a look around and ask yourself: why?

See all those people on the other side of town, livin large and postin high?

Take a look around, see that bumrush to this liquor store?

He sold out of thunderbird, but i got to say more

Take a look around as the wealthy and rich

Go to plush parties and do-si-do together, ain't that a bitch?

Cause they're movin on while most of us sit back complainin

Bout, "ain't nuff opportunities for our people", like it's always rainin

But take a look around, cause i see plenty of sunshine in the sky

Maybe next time, instead of complainin, you go out and get a piece of the pie



Take a look around

Take a look around



Take a look around as more young people take their eyes off the prize

See my man simon talkin bout he's gonna put a kit

And a rag-top on that 560 s-e-c he buys?

Take a look around at the music man on the corner playin his sax

Fillin the air with jazz

He's a one-man symphony, see that 2 dollars in change in his hat?

Yo, that's all that brother has

This is just a little letter about the situations we live in

Take a look around and realize: to succeed we just can't give in



Now take a look around

Hey brother, take a look around

Hey sister, take a look around



Now money made is not necesserally money earned

But those who earn money seem to have a lot less

And not very often are those tables ever turned

But then again, money's not a measure of success

The power of 3, you see, is ever present







Slide and ride this groove, to get the meanin

Only a true king can call someone a peasant

You hold a microphone, but for a t