Arrested Development - Best Of Arrested Development [compilation] (2000) by Arrested Development (보컬) on maniadb.com

See I was resting at the park minding my own
business as I kick up the treble tone
on my radio tape player box, right
just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
investigation maybe she was demonstrating
But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
until a group of brothers started bugging out
drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route
Disrespecting my black queen
holding their crotches and being obscene
At first I ignored them cause see I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
and they see a young couple having a time that's good
and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do
and the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !]
I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit
and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it
Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be
but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me

[CHORUS:] I am everyday people (2x)

I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend
I said please cause I don't like killing Africans
but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
but I had to take the brother out for being rude
and like I said before I was mad by then
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African

[CHORUS]

Ｍｒ． Ｗｅｎｄａｌ -- 어레스티드 디벨로프먼트

Here have dollar, in fact
Now brotherman here have two

Two dollars is a snack for me
But it means a big deal to you
Be strong serve god only know that
If you do beautiful, heaven awaits
That's the poem I worte for the first time
I saw a man with no cloths, no money, no plate
Mr. Wendal, that's his name cause He's a know one
Never thought twice about spending on a old bum
until I had the chance to really get tp know one
Now that I know them to give him money isn't charity

He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some food
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges
Still most of yaw'll come out
Confused... go head Mr. Wendal
Mr. Wendal has freedom a free that you and I think is dumb


여기에 1달러가 있지
사실은, 자 형제여 여기에 2달러가 있네
2달러는 내게 군것질 거리 밖에 되질 않지
그러나 당신에겐 거액이라네
힘내서 봉사해요 신만이 그걸 알지
당신이 아름답게 해낸다면 하느님이 기다리네
이건 내가 난생 처음으로 써본 시라네
난 옷도 없고 돈도 없고 접시도 없는 한 남자를 보았네
미스터 웬달, 그게 그의 이름이었지
왜냐하면 그는 뭘 아는 남자였기에 늙은 부랑자에게
돈을 낭비하는 것에 대해 두번도 생각하지 않았어.
내가 진정으로 한 사람을 알게되는 기회를 맞을 때까지는
그들이 그에게 돈을 주는 것은 자선이 아니라는 걸 난 이제 알았어
그는 내게 어떤 지식을 주지, 난 그에게 약간의 음식을 사주고
그리고 흑인들이 모든 돈을 유명 대학에 가는데 쓰는 것에 대해
당신들 대부분은 혼란스럽게 생각하지
계속해요 미스터 웬달
미스터 웬달은 자유를 갖고 있네
당신과 내가 얼간이짓으로 생각하는 자유를.

This is Headliner from Arrested Development
And I come here tonight
to give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your
umbrellas, you won't be needing those today...
Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the
rain there's no me and there's no you...
I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop
Viva bum bum bum drip-drop

Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me
The water of life, mentally rinsing me
Physically drenching me
Most are frowning upon your arrival
But I need you for survival

And when you fall on my community
I run outside to properly greet you
Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you
Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow

Every drop that hits me, fills me
With an unmeasurable amount of security
Knowing my God acknowledges me
As if each drop of rain is aimed toward me

My Lord: Thanks for life (Thanks for my rain)
My Lord: Thanks for life (Thanks for my rain)
It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions

It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

I struttle strut thru the ghetto
The rain this time I feel is mental
The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual
Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people

Their eyes are hard as a million tombstones
Marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown
To the dust that gave them their colored skin
Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in

The rain many nights have witnessed her
Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister
And blessed that life to guaranteed existence
A conscious baby for a black resistance

I feel the rain enhances the revolution
And reminds us of a spiritual solution
And reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution

It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

Lost between reality and psychology
1990's mentality is described by the honorable thruth message which is
'True Knowledge Is So Priceless' which is so true...
Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow !
Love that power !
Brothers and sisters -haha-
Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin

Now the ceremony begins
Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse
Run into your nearest rainbow
To grab, hold, to ride on
Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color...oh yeah
Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain
haha
yes
oh yeah

Lord I've really been real stressed
Down and out, losing ground
Although I am Black and proud
Problems got me pessimistic

Brothers and sisters keep messing up
Why does it have to be so damn tough?
I don't know where I can go
To let these ghosts out of my skull

My grandma's passed, my brother's gone
I never at once felt so alone
I know you're supposed to be my steering wheel
Not just my spare tire (home)

But Lord I ask you (home)
To be my guiding force and truth (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Lord it's obvious we got a relationship
Talkin' to each other every night and day
Although you're superior over me
We talk to each other in a friendship way

Then outta nowhere you tell me to break
Outta the country and into more country
Past Dyesburg into Ripley
Where the ghost of childhood haunts me

Walk the roads my forefathers walked
Climbed the trees my forefathers hung from
Ask those trees for all their wisdom
They tell me my ears are so young (home)

Go back to from whence you came (home)
My family tree, my family name (home)
For some strange reason it had to be (home)
He guided me to Tennessee (home)

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place
Take me to another land
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Eshe? She went down to Holly Springs.
Rasha Don and Baba? They went down to Peachtree.
Headliner, I challenge you to a game of horseshoes.
A game of horseshoes!

Now I see the importance of history
Why my people be in the mess that they be
Many journeys to freedom made in vain
My brothers on the corner playing ghetto games

I ask you Lord why you enlightened me
Without the enlightenment of all my folks
He said 'cause I set myself on a quest for truth
And you was there to quench my thirst
But I am still thirsty...

The Lord allowed me to drink some more
He said what I am searching for
Are the answers to all which are in front of me
The ultimate truth started to get blurry
For some strange reason it had to be
It was all a dream about Tennessee

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Take me to another place (Home)
Take me to another land (Home)
Make me forget all that hurts me
Let me understand your plan

Oh won't you let me
Won't you help me
Won't you help me understand you plan?
Take me home
Take me home
Home
Take me to another place
Take me home
Oh you know I need to go home, yeah

Headliner? I won the game of horseshoes.
Now you owe me a watermelon.
Let's go climb trees and skip over rocks,
do like they do below the border.
Hmm? Speech's hair?
No it look like the roots of the tree my ancestors were hung from.
But that's okay, get it, 'cuz he's down to earth.
Tennessee.
Tennessee, Whoo! Yeah
Tennessee.

Te-Tenness...

Universal as I stroll
down the street
Africas's a bolling over
flowing inside of me
I used to sport
a curl made by Jerry
A Jerry curl
but as time passed
it didn't last
after my curl
I never combed my doo
I used to sport a cap
but the naps kept shining through
Shining
My sista got a brand new perm
my boys says she looks
pretty fine body real firm
folds at her job loves
her new touch up
I can tell her white boss
gets a kick when
she's all done up
My sista loves her blackness
but the US says
that her perm
is her attractiveness
But Africa keeps coming stronger
we found out
it ain't a perm
it's a temporary
Don't heve sash to
go to the music school
no money for the guitar
or the violin or the tuba
my moms had a record player
and the 45's
I put the needle on the record
and I kicked it crazy live
scratching it up
catching the breaks
spirits within me
had me do what it takes
Grammy's I win & one again
like my Egyptian kin
it's Africa within makin'
something outta nothing
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free

What's that land across
those waters
what's that spirit makin'
love to my daughter
telling her not to eat
he mama's ham hocks
allowing her the choice
to twist her hair & make it lock
yo I don't like it
I just don't like it
Papa may say buy
my soul is a boilin'
and sooner or later
Africa's glory and toil
will teach an old dog new tricks
Why and the world
can't everybody
recognize that
Africa's in everybody
we all ask why can't
we be sista's and brothers
but first we gotta accept
who is our mother
Rather embracer of the jungle
or ghetto melanin dwells
but could stop growth
and developments
Arrested for nothing
Gumbo's within' soulful
H20 men be droppin'
Happenin's like
Homosapians Hustlins
within' to exist as afro USA men
residing in Fulani
was once Christian
Start fishin' like FOS
and found origin
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free

This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here tonight
To give thanks to ithe rain, so brothers and sisters please put down your
Umbrellas, you won't be needing those today
Look to the clouds with the most rain coming from it, for without the
Rain there's no me and there's no you
I said a drip-drop, a drip-drop, drip-drop
Viva bum bum bum drip-drop
Let it rain, let it rain, let God's water feed me
The water of life, mentally rinsing me, physically drenching me
Most are frowning upon your arrival
But I need you for survival
And when you fall on my community
I run outside to properly
Greet you
Let it rain, take my pain, I'm glad to meet you
Fill my eyes with a colorful rainbow
Every drop hits me, fills me
With an unmeasurable amount of security
Knowing my God acknowledges me
As if each drop of rain is aimed toward me
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain
My Lord Thanks for lifeThanks for my rain

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

I struttle strut thru the ghetto
The rain this time I feel is mental
The goal of this rain I feel is spiritual
Saw thru the eyes of the inflicted people
Their eyes are hard as a million thombstones
Marked with the names of the millions of kin thrown
To the dust that gave them their colored skin
Fade to black is the scene they're embalmed in
The rain many nights have witnessed her
Receiving the sperm of a brother into a sister
And blessed that life to guaranteed existence
A conscious baby for a black resistance
I feel the rain enhances the revolution
And reminds us of a spiritual solution
And reminds us of an unnatural supernatural solu-lu-lu-lution

It's raining revolution
It's raining solutions
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution
It's raining revolution

Lost between reality and psychology. 1990's mentality is described
By the honorable thruth message which is 'True Knowledge Is So Priceless'
Which is so true
Rain, rain, stay here ! Wow
Love that power
Brothers and sisters -haha-
Raise your hands up high and let me see the colors of your beautiful skin
Now the ceremony begins
Lord, let thet heavenly rains cleanse
Run into your nearest rainbow
To grab, hold, to ride on
Each color, learn it ! The importance of each color oh yeah
Let it rain (repeats till end)
Haha
Yes
Oh yeah

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 finish the story
Keep on searching for the right way to go out
'Cause 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?

'Cause if they take away our contract
We still got talent and we still got contacts
'Cuase we're worked real hard to get this far
We're catching the bus before we bought the car
Ya see !

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

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
'Cause ganstaz do dirty work and get pimped by mobsters
Some fat Italian eating pasta 'n lobster
Brothers getting jailed and mobsters own the coppers

So you you want out of the ghetto
First the political prisoners must be let go
And you must let go of your power master

You'll never get out without much discipline
Raise your fist but also raise your children
So when you die the movement moves on
'Cause with revolution, ain't no future in front o' y'all

haha! Direct your anger, love
Nothing's ever built on hate, instead love
Love your life, tackle the government
The spooks that break down the door are heaven sent
and my phrase went...

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever

Alright

Rhythm makes you move your body, rhythm makes you move your mind move
Rhythm makes your elbows groove, rhythm makes that behind move
Rhythm makes the people move, rhythm makes you want to move
Rhythm makes your mind soothe, you know next stop is Jerusalem

I need some time to ease my mind

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mamas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on.
Life is surrounded with so many insecurities
back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty.
I try to make my sanity, with the insane
God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money.
But, then again money can cause even more death.
when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all.
I dare say when price is right U can buy us all.
well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you.
I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move!
Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away from yo thang
All these things you put on me makes this brother sing...

Chorus:
I need some time to ease my mind.

Mind & soul is even more important then body
money can put my body in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & soul remotely dwells
within that fine spot between all messed up & hell.
And so I move on with confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist this wack society
Cuz if you don't resist, & I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it.
I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus
I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin'it.
Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me.
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace.
Until that day upon which my souls released!

Chorus

need some time need some time
when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real!

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mommas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.
And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.

That is why I tell you...

I need some time to ease my mind.

Choice...
You know I'm saying...
Can this last with two beautiful women...
but at the same time, you know,
every man has this ideal image
of loving just one

I'm checking you out, you're all alone
No one is clocking you, but I'm scoping you
Staring right thru you, staring into you
Your beauty is endless and I'm hoping to explore

Brothers may say you're ugly but I disagree
But in a way that's fine with me
'Cause I want to travel with you
Travel in your mind 'cause you seem like a virgin

Free as the wind blows, tall as a tree grows
Wild like nature, yet calm as a field
Hair is natural, lips are natural
Face wins first place, you appeal to me, girl

Let me ask you for some time
For us to unwind together et cetera
I have nothing but pure intentions
Everything we'll be will be natural

Natural
Natural

I'd like to hold your waist as we chase
The wind down the shores of a southern ocean
Rub my fingers through your hair
Slowly rub and caress your forehead and bare

our problems, as we lay on the bed called Earth
Holding hands 'till we touch each and every finger
As the ocean water wets us both
In the center of the crossroads

Spiritual bonds are connected...what...an erection
Well...Let's drive to the city
And walk among the lights of the city streets
You're making me weak and it's scary

'Cause you've played no games
All you've been is very natural
That's why I'm scared to fall in love with you
'Cause girl you so natural

Natural
Natural
Oh yeah

I wanna be natural
I wanna be natural
I wanna be sleeping in you
I wanna be inside you

I wanna be sleeping deep in you
I wanna be sleeping deep in you
I wanna be in you
I wanna be in you

Natural
Natural

Love your lips
Love the way you do the things you do
Natural
Your lips

My skin could never no curse, no it can't
I wear it like a prom tuxedo
I wear my hair as if its the sun and...
each and every dread is a powerful light ray
never wanted things to be in reverse cuz
GOD makes waves wise travellers so
my views of this world are ever growing
thus ever growing is the way one must view me
A soul of conviction unjustly convicted
happy tv commercials and bi-racial shows
the smell of reality still burns my nose
not content until it smells like a rose
whether it's in syle to keep the fight
I tread these waters and make my waves yes I do
And I will fight until my dying day
And even after that my ghost resides with pride
Forward ever backward never
day by day these trials I trod
Always triumphant never fail
We've come too far to turn back now
I won't turn back I move
My blood is thicker than the waters of any flood
Here I am facing the almighty herself
If she approves then I am saved
Clear of trouble is the path I pave
for generations to walk and run
Whether it's in style to keep the fight
I tread these waters and make waves GOD knows
and I will fight until my dying day
and even after that my ghost resides with pride

Just a shell until U decide to rebel (4x)
Just a shell, just a shell, just a shell until u decide to rebel
whether you're white or black your soul does not dwell
inside your shell until you decide to rebel
worldly worldy people people allow your innersides
to intervene and circulate
open your eyes and open your ears
wouldn't it be great.
So what am I doin? Am I really rebellin? or am I just dwelling
in the sin
in the sin
in the sin?
I've made up my mind
I've seen the design of individualism
and I don't want to be in it
The me generations a dis-ease!

Brand new mama, I understand
It's hard as hell being a young mother and
you need support your conscious told you not to abort
so to your child you're a hero of some sort
But, hey, the worst is over
You're ready to do this
I got faith and your baby renewed this
faith that everything will be fine
Now an adult, no more youth time
[Anytime you need help sister]
We'll be there just give us a ring
We will help you raise that king
Word to the mother cause it's a black thing
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage (4x)

Hey, let me guess, you're bored
Wanna get loose, attack the dance floor
Cool, I'll hold her, you have a good time
I'll keep your baby awake so baby sleeps after nine
This is reality, we need to turn our minds
Brothers talking revolution but leave their babies behind
Well sister, he's a sucker, just leave'em be
The revolution is now up to brothers like me
to step in cause your man stepped out
[The goal:] To raise the children, no doubt
so let's go to it and possibly
bring a generation of nat's in the future, see
I respect you in a strong way
Super late nights cause your baby slept all day
But mama don't sleep, your life's a turning page
Mama's always on stage
Keep up your strength now cause we must grow somehow

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage (4x)
Can't be a revolution without women
Can't be a revolution without children

I improved throughout my life
all of this just to soothe a wife
brothers wear your black clothes
talk your 5% talk
Words of wisdom should be ways of wisdom
That's exactly how you must walk
Life's too short, your mission's too dire
Nurture another mind before yours expires
Pass it on, push it along
Like the brother said it in that one song
We respect you all the way
Late, late nights cause your baby slept all day
but mama's got to stay strong, carry it on
Hey, mama's on stage

[Chorus:]
Mama's always on stage

I need some time to ease my mind

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mamas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
it's that bond that keeps the movement movin' on.
Life is surrounded with so many insecurities
back stabbin' is like breathing when in poverty.
I try to make my sanity, with the insane
God is secondary to most, when they scrap for money.
But, then again money can cause even more death.
when a African becomes a nigger step n fetch n all.
I dare say when price is right U can buy us all.
well not me, cuz I don't truly give a care about you.
I'll move in poverty, in wealth but I'll surely move!
Ain't syncopated with your beats or your wack grooves
my break beat is to break away from yo thang
All these things you put on me makes this brother sing...

Chorus:
I need some time to ease my mind.

Mind & soul is even more important then body
money can put my body in all exotic spaces
meanwhile my mind & soul remotely dwells
within that fine spot between all messed up & hell.
And so I move on with confidence of harmony
And do my thang to resist this wack society
Cuz if you don't resist, & I mean consciously
you'll fool your sub-conscious into accepting it.
I ain't acceptin' it - I keep my focus
I keep my focus - I ain't acceptin'it.
Give me a face pencil to draw a smile on me.
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly body inner peace
Answer my prayer to give my Earthly
body
inner
inner peace.
Until that day upon which my souls released!

Chorus

need some time need some time
when the sista's say it then you know it's gotta be real!

Thrusted in a world that I don't know
from my mommas lips between my mamas hips
I'm cuddled by her hands because she understands
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on
It's that bond that will keep the movement movin' on.
And so I GOTTA BE READY TO RELINQUISH
gotta be ready to relinquish, my breath of life for struggle.

That is why I tell you...

I need some time to ease my mind.

Ｍｒ． Ｗｅｎｄａｌ -- 어레스티드 디벨로프먼트

Here have dollar, in fact
Now brotherman here have two

Two dollars is a snack for me
But it means a big deal to you
Be strong serve god only know that
If you do beautiful, heaven awaits
That's the poem I worte for the first time
I saw a man with no cloths, no money, no plate
Mr. Wendal, that's his name cause He's a know one
Never thought twice about spending on a old bum
until I had the chance to really get tp know one
Now that I know them to give him money isn't charity

He gives me some knowledge, I buy him some food
And to think blacks spend all that money on big colleges
Still most of yaw'll come out
Confused... go head Mr. Wendal
Mr. Wendal has freedom a free that you and I think is dumb


여기에 1달러가 있지
사실은, 자 형제여 여기에 2달러가 있네
2달러는 내게 군것질 거리 밖에 되질 않지
그러나 당신에겐 거액이라네
힘내서 봉사해요 신만이 그걸 알지
당신이 아름답게 해낸다면 하느님이 기다리네
이건 내가 난생 처음으로 써본 시라네
난 옷도 없고 돈도 없고 접시도 없는 한 남자를 보았네
미스터 웬달, 그게 그의 이름이었지
왜냐하면 그는 뭘 아는 남자였기에 늙은 부랑자에게
돈을 낭비하는 것에 대해 두번도 생각하지 않았어.
내가 진정으로 한 사람을 알게되는 기회를 맞을 때까지는
그들이 그에게 돈을 주는 것은 자선이 아니라는 걸 난 이제 알았어
그는 내게 어떤 지식을 주지, 난 그에게 약간의 음식을 사주고
그리고 흑인들이 모든 돈을 유명 대학에 가는데 쓰는 것에 대해
당신들 대부분은 혼란스럽게 생각하지
계속해요 미스터 웬달
미스터 웬달은 자유를 갖고 있네
당신과 내가 얼간이짓으로 생각하는 자유를.

See I was resting at the park minding my own
business as I kick up the treble tone
on my radio tape player box, right
just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
investigation maybe she was demonstrating
But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
until a group of brothers started bugging out
drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route
Disrespecting my black queen
holding their crotches and being obscene
At first I ignored them cause see I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
and they see a young couple having a time that's good
and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do
and the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !]
I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit
and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it
Well I stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be
but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me

[CHORUS:] I am everyday people (2x)

I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend
I said please cause I don't like killing Africans
but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
but I had to take the brother out for being rude
and like I said before I was mad by then
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African

[CHORUS]