OnlyOne, IAMe, DJ Spark , Sandpeople, Ethic - Times Have Changed lyrics

For quick bread you're quick to
Tradin' your soul and ideals
Like hoes that strip naked on
Poles in high heels we cheat, lie, steal
Sell guns and poisons to kids it's dirt
And legit work's the last choice on our list
We're prisoners that work for these wages
Fuck it
I'ma serve 'em hell with this twelve gauge
At minimum range from the bank teller
Tell her put the shit in the bag
Anyone moves
I'll shoot this bitch in the face
But, it's no wonder we look timid
It's evident from the inner cities
The ghettos, even the suburbs
These sentiments go unheard
I run a vision so blurred
There's no cure in sight
In the abyss we submerged
We search for light
Most'll only find a serpent's bite
With no workman's comp when the work stops
That's when a person dies
I'ma load a weapon with a empty cartridge
Don't start shit
Unless it's some sort of charitable
Act, what else you got, bitch?

It's not a game, it's a lot of pain
You thinkin' it's all good?
Times have changed
Come to the crib, get banged
They take your chain
As far as rap goes, it's only natural
I explain

I'm the governing type to
Those with an upperhand
This gutter is right, yeah
But I need to expand
It's a cumbersome plight
A thundering city lights
When livin' under the gun is
Someone holdin' a knife
When workin' another day means
Workin' another night
Mixed with the adrenaline of
A condition that might
Have me flip on this light
As I rip into yours i'ma get what I like and
Exit through these doors
Fuck somebody getting the best of me
It's amazing what one will do
When they threaten necessity
Give you a taste of what you see on the news
If you choose to look into the
Eyes of a stomach without food
I move with the mind of a time bomb, confused
Consumed by the amount of
Wealth that you abuse
And if you ain't down to help
I'ma start climbin' out
Give these fuckin' papers somethin'
To write about

It's not a game, it's a lot of pain
You thinkin' it's all good?
Times have changed
Come to the crib, get banged
They take your chain
As far as rap goes, it's only natural
I explain

I choose to survive when
We're losin' our lives
It's gotta be the system with poverty
Imprisonment
Dishonesty and sinners institutionalised
My cousin's been in the pen
A pig shot him in his ass
I'm in abduction with my brother
I made a visit to ask
Why the fuck has he been
Livin' behind a visitor's glass?
Visit my past, Dad hit Mom, she hit me
Now I hit blunts and licks
Get shit 'cause it's free
When there's so much I've seen
And it's scary on average
I would steal green
Smugglin' through carry-on baggage
Beware of a savage, 'cause if I go crazy
I'll have a tie with all those
Other motherfuckers that raised me
There's a fiend's face inside of
My brother and his lady
He's freebasin' on oninons
Even in front of his baby
Believe even I could be like him
With a gun and just maybe i get clapped
'cause fuck bein' outrun when they chase me
Knahmean?

It's not a game, it's a lot of pain
You thinkin' it's all good?
Times have changed
Come to the crib, get banged
They take your chain
As far as rap goes, it's only natural
I explain