[00:00.00] 作词 : M. Dixon/D. Ross[00:01.00] 作曲 : Leon Ware/Etterlene Jordan/M. Dixon/Eldra DeBarge/Arthur Ross/D. Ross/William DeBarge[00:06.99]Intro:[00:07.29]Yeah positivity over comes negativity check it.[00:10.83]A gat don't make you a man cause a man made the gat[00:13.98]So stop with the black on black (x2)[00:15.66]Verse 1:[00:21.00]We got black on black[00:22.74]Black on crack[00:23.94]Knowledge of self is what the black people lack[00:26.40]Grew up in the projects with the welfare and the food stamps[00:30.00]Modern day concentration camps[00:32.22]Where we lost all our unity[00:34.14]Because the negativity pulls us down like gravity[00:37.56]Black people on eath others back[00:39.45]Little shortie sedated thinkin' the way out is by selling cracks[00:43.08]I seen black borthers cry like day by day the number multiply[00:48.15]And the devil don't give a damn long as a black man kills another black man[00:53.31]It makes his job more eaiser[00:54.84]As the tick goes with the tock he's just gettin' sleezier and sleezier[00:58.95]Here's a good example of yourself[01:00.69]Talkin' about a devil on a record they put you on the shelf[01:03.90]As long as you talk about 'yo i bust this nigga and i bust that nigga'[01:07.05]You grow bigger as a rap figure[01:09.33]But that's still black on black welcome back[01:12.75]It's time to graduate from that[01:14.04]Hook:[01:15.39]Change gon come change gon come time to free the dumb time to free the dumb[01:25.98](x3)[01:26.01]Change gon come say what say what so get up out the slum[01:34.56]Verse 2:[01:35.43]Now let's deal on the real don't you set sick of this?[01:38.10]The way we hate eachother the shit's ridiculous[01:40.83]It's time to move on to the next phase[01:42.54]Cause there's too many shorties gettin' boxed in the grave[01:45.78]Some think respect is an uzi or a tech[01:48.15]But when he steals your intellect it's like a rope around your neck[01:51.42]That's the 2000 tricknowledge[01:52.35]That's the shit you won't learn in college brother[01:56.88]You get to be strong you got to hold on[01:59.61]You got to know the ledge before you hit the edge[02:02.28]Time to get wise and civilize[02:04.98]Open up your eyes all three eyes and recognzie[02:08.67]What your doing all that bullshit you pursuing[02:10.59]Put your whole life on ruin[02:12.30]Let's kill the black on black vigga[02:14.34]Cause it only gets us locked up or in the box quicker[02:18.06]And that's ain't how you get the cheese[02:19.80]Cause now ya locked up or gunned down by your enemy[02:22.98]But i'm a deader that gat[02:24.57]Remember a gat don't make you a man cause a man made the gat[02:29.01]Word is born[02:39.57]Keep it true god keep it true (x8)[02:49.02]Puba talking:[02:49.35]Knowhati'msayin'? time to civilize you know get wise. think. stop and think[02:55.47]Youknowhati'msayin'? no doubt. check it so just...[02:59.73]Stop think, listen to the god hear what he's sayin'. (x2)[03:30.30]Hook[03:30.39]Outro:[03:30.54]No doubt i'd like to send this one out to all the people still striving and[03:37.89]Stugglin'to keep it real youknowhati'msayin'? not actin' like we keepin' it[03:44.64]Real no doubt. peace and love. that's d on the hook off.