Common - Real People

[00:03.47] Yeah, yeah, you know how me and 'Ye do, yeah [00:09.89] Real People walk in the streets, the streets is talkin' [00:12.88] Often it's beef this city never does [00:14.93] People walk and talk in they sleep [00:16.83] Cold sweats and wet dreams [00:18.48] On how to get green our faith is all in a Jeep [00:20.68] Black souls raw and they deep [00:22.71] Hypes tryna talk with no teeth [00:24.41] Shorties sayin' ball or retreat [00:25.96] A lesson we all speak at one point or another [00:28.54] Whatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his mother [00:31.16] Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region [00:33.73] Through the pain wish they know that God was just teachin' [00:36.36] We want decent homes [00:37.85] So dreams we say out loud like speakerphones just to keep em on [00:41.68] It's like a colored song that keep keepin' on [00:44.38] I guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strong [00:46.96] Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn [00:49.58] Like the Bishop Magic Juan, that's why I write freedom songs [00:52.16] For the real people [01:02.53] I wonder if the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile Selassie [01:05.42] Watch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock me [01:08.16] They cocky, plus they mentality is Nazi [01:10.54] The way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazzi [01:13.18] We're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobs [01:16.16] We could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a charge [01:18.69] They say the dope game is sour [01:20.32] Now they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hours [01:23.38] Come to your crib and devour all that you work for [01:26.33] Must be more than paper these niggaz hurt for [01:28.99] Through the purple haze I circle days to rhyme that work for pays [01:31.85] Tryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentality [01:34.93] Heard that it's drama at home [01:36.58] Can a dude break free and still get honored at home [01:39.17] I was told by a chief it's the games nature [01:41.75] When you're glowin' some will love and some will hate ya [01:44.16] It's real people [01:55.26] Black men walking wit white girls on they arms [01:58.15] I be mad at 'em as if I know they moms [02:00.46] Told to go beyond the surface, a person's a person [02:02.92] When we lessen our women our condition seems to worsen [02:05.49] The weary cursin' the sky [02:07.04] Talkin' to themselves givin' the version of why help and hurt in they eye [02:10.45] I live across from it, some of it I do be in [02:13.04] I be showin' niggaz lives [02:14.48] Like UPN [02:15.74] It's real people [02:19.73] Yeah [02:21.54] For you and yours [02:25.21] Good music [02:26.98] Forever [02:28.68] Yeah [02:31.53] Rock on [02:34.04] We keep on [02:37.32] Uh Yeah [02:40.61] Yeah, yeah [02:47.29] The real [02:48.02]