Ordinary People

Ordinary people [ VERSE 1 ] Oops, I guess I should stop singin and start bringin the funk The niggeroe sings a rap and have you clappin I gets busy, cause I never fall, I excel Never takin no shorts, so here's my tall tale Once upon the clock It was hard growing up with no pops But moms did the supernatural, very Extra-ordinary Person that she is She finished college, three kids at home cryin But never got fed up, and kept her head up 'I shoot for the sky' is what she said, it Got embedded In my skull That's how I got soul To reach ya through your speaker My mother alone helped me to be me So that's my role model, not an idiot on tv Used to do it like this And like that, and like this But since she never let me join a gang I couldn't g thang So for all her prayers at night under the church steeple I give thanks to my mother, one of those very extra-ordinary people [ VERSE 2 ] Now dig it, 2-(4)-6-8 I guess that I appreciate And consider that niggas who work hard is the superstars (Ordinary) people with families, that have kids Should be put on a pedestal, not average Treatment for our mother and fathers, and if you ask me I'll say: you put your family first, before an athlete But everybody wanna be somebody special, who Can grab a microphone, or put a ball through a hoop And it's okay to like Mike Even I would, if I drank Gatorade But I'm too busy funkin your trunk with all this 808 To worry about that, I'm worried bout this If you agree, then pump your fist If you're proud (Say it loud!) To show you're pissed Off at the news and media, because they swear That all black people are menaces and holler and cheer But since there's so many others that want justice, I know we will Start respectin others as brothers and come together, all of the... Ordinary people [ VERSE 3 ] Ordinary people make the world turn I learned that if you work hard in life Then it counts the way the balls bounce I wrote this to give a message, I'll be glad if it Switches your goal from bein a gangsta to a graduate And if you listened close to what I said, you learned a lesson, and Heard that all the average Jones' are no greater, or no lesser than Stars, cause all we all are is equal So shut off your tv set, and show respect to some of the... Ordinary people