Common - It's Your World (Part 1 & 2 (Explicit))

[00:20.06] Night glows, stoves don't work, hoes at work [00:22.91] A warrior, so I wear 'em on my shirt [00:25.56] Wish I was free as Che was, I spend a day buzzed [00:28.48] Trippin' on heights, wishin' for Nikes in different flavors [00:30.96] The age of Kane and Big Daddy, shown by the caddies [00:33.55] Uncles named Larry, that never really grabbed me [00:36.43] My mother gave birth but she really never had me [00:39.04] Left to the hood to play daddy [00:40.90] Raised by niggas named Butch through the bay bay [00:43.08] With waists so they weigh they status on the streets [00:45.64] License plates that say they, motto [00:47.99] This is Chicago in the hay day [00:49.53] Similar to Good Times, I guess that I was Jay Jay [00:52.18] A skinny nigga, young girls with penny figures [00:55.21] So many niggas, stacked upon each other [00:57.46] It's the black upon each other that we love so much [01:00.25] Wonder how many of us, these drugs gonna touch [01:02.86] Used to gang bang, ain't really thug that much [01:05.42] Rather have some thick broads then the dutch to clutch [01:07.85] Went to school in Baton Rouge for a couple of years [01:10.63] My college career got downed with a couple of beers [01:13.22] Came back home, now I gotta pay back loans [01:15.94] Same nigga, same block, same shit they own [01:18.80] Only thing different, quicker, they click that chrome [01:21.40] In my defence, yo I had to hit that zone [01:24.01] Man to man, I'm good workin' with my hands [01:26.62] My generation never understood workin' for the man [01:29.73] And, of being broke I ain't a fan [01:32.19] Now I stand in the same spot, as my old man [01:34.98] My life I planned not to be on this corner [01:37.57] I still wanna see California [01:39.65] But this is my world [01:41.70] It's your world [02:01.63] Life and death law around us [02:03.14] Four pounds and pounds of bird from out of towners [02:05.86] It's hard to stay grounded [02:07.19] We stay high, that's why old folks down us [02:09.78] Lost, nobody found us, the force that surrounds us [02:12.30] Ain't with us, they get us on the ground and hit us [02:14.69] We paint pictures of the chains under their names and scriptures [02:17.56] Removed from Earth, only to return through birth [02:20.14] Knew this girl sellin' her body, wish she knew what it was worth [02:22.89] Between God and trash, lookin' in every car that pass [02:26.49] With a walk that suggests head, to milk niggas she was breastfed [02:30.03] She know dairy so she say cheese to get bread [02:33.00] In the area where it's more weaves and less dreads [02:35.56] Kinda scary, amongst thieves and base-heads [02:38.49] Said it was her toes, but I could tell her soul hurt [02:40.87] She was cold turk, growin' up she got to know hurt [02:43.49] Very well in a world where self hate is overt [02:46.34] Her stepfather thought he was Ike, so her mother he strike [02:49.50] She got to like like-minded niggas, who liked crimes and figures [02:52.31] Doin' white lines and liquor, see hard times had kicked her [02:55.49] In the ass, it used to be thicker [02:58.31] Life is fast, some choose to be quicker [03:00.12] I remember in high school she had a passion to sing [03:02.70] Now she see herself in a casket in dreams [03:05.33] These are the children of crack and rap, blacks done lack [03:08.55] Self-esteem, yo we forgot the dream [03:10.80] On our Jeffersons y'all but we forgot the theme [03:13.42] In the Chi, we even rootin' for a garbage team [03:16.52] This queen never seen herself on this Corner [03:19.25] She still wanna see California [03:21.02] But this is her world [04:35.76] Be, be here, be there, be that, be this [04:44.80] Be grateful for life, be grateful to life [04:50.69] Be gleeful everyday, for bein the best swimmer among 500, 000 [05:01.05] Be-nign, be you, be mom's mean pie, be little black sambo With bad hair [05:16.28] Be aware of Willie Lynch's, Be, be boundless energy [05:26.99] Be a four star ghetto general, be no one except I [05:35.05] Be a strong academic student, be an A student in sociology [05:40.24] Be food for thought to the growin mind, be the author of your own horoscope [05:42.84] Be invited, be long-living, be forgiving, be not forgetful [05:47.84] Be a proud run, only to return to fight another day [05:57.24] Be peaceful if possible, but justice in ways (?) [06:02.58] Be high when you low, be on time but know when to go [06:07.94] Be cautious of the road to college, takin a detour through Vietnam or the middle east [06:23.11] Be absent of wars at any past or present fought amongst themselves [06:23.97] Be visual of foreclosure over your shoulder while beggin [06:28.32] A nation built on free labor for reparation, Be a cartographer [06:41.92] Be a map maker, be able to find Afro-american land [06:49.24] Search thoroughly it may be close to black land [06:55.26] Be amended 5/5ths, be amended 5/5ths human [07:05.67] Be the owner of more land than is set aside for wild life [07:12.29] Be cupid, to world government [07:17.48] Be found among the truth, lost tribe [07:22.92] Be at full strength when walking through the valley [07:27.42] Be not foolish as temporary king of the mountain top [07:37.38] Be a brilliant soul, sparkling in the galaxy while walking on earth [07:47.38] Be loved by God as much as God loved Gandhi and Martin Luther King [07:55.00] Be that last one of 144, 000, be the resident of that twelfth house [08:04.10] Be... eternal [08:08.96]