Reality

Whispering: Reality, reality, it's reality Reality, reality, reality, its reality (3X) Well I get up in the morning shower up and take a drive I'm feeling kinda good cause its good to be alive The radio is playing ("Its so hard to say goodbye") It makes me think of all my homies that died Pain in my heart frustration in my mind Is my kind or is man blind I see my black sister sellin booty in the street (Do she wanna get high?) Or do her kids need to eat I creep; later along I see more drama (Oh Lord) What a brother got to do to make a dollar? Sellin more cain than the little stick up kids Innocent fix in the middle Kitty gotta body at a party now we lives upstate To late to change a great mistake Thoughts crowd my mind as it gets colder Cops pull me over cause I'm in a Range Rover I never sweat it; forget it that's how it be Cause where I'm livin yo its reality [Hook] Everything I see (is reality) Cops harassin (is reality) In my city (is reality) Scratching: Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough (reality, its reality) Everything I see is reality In the ghettos across the country (Come follow me) Brothers on the block shootin craps (yelling) Watch out they bustin caps Cops frustrated cause I'm not doin 30 They stop me for what? Illegal search Keep on shiftin your eyes G Because you can't find nothing on me I'm not guilty I guess its reality in the city Everybody wants to be like Frank Nitty I mean really, yo I feel a little pity But I just sit back relax and hit the Philly Meditatin yo I'm another state N But I ain't to far from this, I'm still relatin To the streets where I was born and raised in I peeped too many things, ain't nothing amazin [Hook] - 2X Its real, brothers got their hands on the steel Killin other brothers for the thrill (For Real) My next-door neighbor just went into the labor Another little child who might grow awhile Then again, will he make it when he's older? Never knew his moms and pop when they were sober (Project livin ain't nothing to laugh at) Rat-A-Tat-Tat watch out for the black tech Which way is out? Is it the gates of hell? Or a jail cell, or getting a job doin well I excel I'm just a young brother tryin to make it I worked too hard for a fool tryin to take it Livin in the badlands step to bat and Hurtin the mind now you wanna be a bad man Everything I see (is reality) On my block, downtown, and even in my family Ain't no escape like Alcatraz The inner city is past, only the strong will last Chorus (2X) Scratching: Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough (4X) Be so rough (3X) Rough (3X) Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough (2X)