K-Rino - Look Around You lyrics
[K-Rino - Look Around You lyrics]
Open your eyes
See the world for what it really is
I gotta deal with this
Lying and perpetrating
Stressing and straining
Not succeeding, procrastinating
Point fingers and blaming
The temptation of women, lust
And the failure to fight it
Getting doors slammed in my face
And still smiling despite it
Learning how to check my
Ego and accepting correction
The hope of accomplishment mixed with
The fear of rejection
The struggle to make my own
Knowledge reach it's eliteness
Wanna cry but holding back to show
No signs of my weakness
The good and the evil that
Clash in constant defiance
That live inside of me joined
In a unholy alliance
Supposed to be partners who ain’t never
Down when you need ‘em
The thin line that sit's
Between incarceration and freedom
The ways we praise things
And disrespect one another
Showing more love to our cars than
We show to each other
The deep spiritual famine that
We rarely examine
Damaging thought mismanagement the hand
Of Satan’s programming
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Against our own people
We quick to let cappin’ ensue
Don’t care about nobody’s problems ’til
It happen to you the genocidal antics
Evil commandments that run rampant
The devilish pamphlets handed to
Man on every campus
Envious mental condition that lacks religion
The disproportional percentages of
Blacks in prison
You won’t show up for a protest
You’ll hide like cowards
But, you’ll wait in line to see
A concert for two hours in our community
The Arabs and Chinese got stores
Getting rich off of your
Black dollar but fool, where yours?
Out here hustling, risking
Doing time in the tank
Hundred and fifty dollar shoes on and
Not a dime in the bank
Some people you only see when
They wanna borrow some paper
And then they come up missing when
It’s time to return the favor
Matters if we roll legit
The profiling won’t cease
White people feel safe
We tense up when we see the police
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Full scheming and back dooring
Talking but never showing
Tryna bring you down with ‘em ‘cause
They ain’t got nothing going
Tryna poison your dreams with
Hate and manipulation
Blatant statements that break spirit
Raping your motivation
Grew up never trusting and
Got accustomed to scuffling
Don’t let nobody tell you you’ll
Never amount to nothing
If invalid men with sinful
Intentions slander you endless
If you let words destroy you
Then you was weak to begin with
Got problems, survive ‘em
Quit judging others and guide ‘em
Need to stop looking at people
And start looking inside ‘em
Why you crying over somebody
That’s being untrue?
Stressing over a person who ain’t
Even thinking about you
We make seeds then we break up
Our families ain’t building
How you gon’ let a judge decide
What’s best for your children
Can you overcome and progress?
That’s the true test
I avoid the stress and strap
On my hater-proof vest
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
See the world for what it really is
I gotta deal with this
Lying and perpetrating
Stressing and straining
Not succeeding, procrastinating
Point fingers and blaming
The temptation of women, lust
And the failure to fight it
Getting doors slammed in my face
And still smiling despite it
Learning how to check my
Ego and accepting correction
The hope of accomplishment mixed with
The fear of rejection
The struggle to make my own
Knowledge reach it's eliteness
Wanna cry but holding back to show
No signs of my weakness
The good and the evil that
Clash in constant defiance
That live inside of me joined
In a unholy alliance
Supposed to be partners who ain’t never
Down when you need ‘em
The thin line that sit's
Between incarceration and freedom
The ways we praise things
And disrespect one another
Showing more love to our cars than
We show to each other
The deep spiritual famine that
We rarely examine
Damaging thought mismanagement the hand
Of Satan’s programming
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Against our own people
We quick to let cappin’ ensue
Don’t care about nobody’s problems ’til
It happen to you the genocidal antics
Evil commandments that run rampant
The devilish pamphlets handed to
Man on every campus
Envious mental condition that lacks religion
The disproportional percentages of
Blacks in prison
You won’t show up for a protest
You’ll hide like cowards
But, you’ll wait in line to see
A concert for two hours in our community
The Arabs and Chinese got stores
Getting rich off of your
Black dollar but fool, where yours?
Out here hustling, risking
Doing time in the tank
Hundred and fifty dollar shoes on and
Not a dime in the bank
Some people you only see when
They wanna borrow some paper
And then they come up missing when
It’s time to return the favor
Matters if we roll legit
The profiling won’t cease
White people feel safe
We tense up when we see the police
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Full scheming and back dooring
Talking but never showing
Tryna bring you down with ‘em ‘cause
They ain’t got nothing going
Tryna poison your dreams with
Hate and manipulation
Blatant statements that break spirit
Raping your motivation
Grew up never trusting and
Got accustomed to scuffling
Don’t let nobody tell you you’ll
Never amount to nothing
If invalid men with sinful
Intentions slander you endless
If you let words destroy you
Then you was weak to begin with
Got problems, survive ‘em
Quit judging others and guide ‘em
Need to stop looking at people
And start looking inside ‘em
Why you crying over somebody
That’s being untrue?
Stressing over a person who ain’t
Even thinking about you
We make seeds then we break up
Our families ain’t building
How you gon’ let a judge decide
What’s best for your children
Can you overcome and progress?
That’s the true test
I avoid the stress and strap
On my hater-proof vest
So look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop
Look around you
Put some knowledge into your dome
Stop making everybody else rich and
Go get your own quit stressing over the salt
That individuals drop
Don’t be trippin’ when people talk about
Your trip when they stop