Plies - Why U Hate lyrics

That’s the problem with some
Of you rap niggas
Is y’all niggas is just makin’ music
I salute my nigga Plies
He makin’ statements!
Words that touches peoples’ lives
Words that touches peoples’ emotions
How real is that?

Wanna ask the government: Why y’all
Hate us so much?
Wanna ask the other color: Why
Y’all hate us so much?
Wanna ask the law: Why y’all hate us so much?
Wanna ask the prosecuter: Why y’all
Hate us so much?

Is it our skin color
Or is it the way we talk?
You hate us cause we us
Or you hate us cause we folk?
Is it the way we live
Or is it the way we walk? We never had shit
So it can’t be nothin’ we bought
This shit y’all took us through
Prolly the reason we off
Our pride we still got it
Only thing we ain’t lost
Defending ourselves – shit – that
Was something we was taught
We’ve been through the roughest times
But all of it ain’t our fault
Wish I could add up the years
In prison our peoples’ve caught
The government distributed
We ain’t really have a choice
Your peoples go to college
My peoples go to court
Your peoples born with money
My peoples born broke
Your peoples lived in mansions
My peoples hung from ropes
Your peoples had it made
All my peoples had was hope
Your peoples had help
All my peoples heard was "no"
My peoples thought about it
Your peoples cut our throats
Respect we had for one another –
Shit – it wasn’t even close
We had to entertain
That was our only open door
If we wanted to make it, we had to rap
Sing or try sports
We couldn’t afford a full ride –
Shit – my people poor
My people ain’t mad, your people hate us
Though but we’re the ones strugglin’
So why y’all hate us for?
The police want us bad
The judge hate us more
The jury think we’re guilty ‘fore
We come through the door
And y’all ‘ll take our money
But y’all won’t help us, though
And y’all biggest fear
Is to see our people grow
But our biggest fear
Is dyin’ ‘fore we turn twenty-four
And every law that’s passed
‘s designed to sink us more
And every time we go to jail, y’all get paid
Though but when we ask for money
Y’all slam the door
They say our president’s black
But we can’t tell, though
We only got ourselves, now
That’s what’s real, though
I know y’all hate our guts
That’s how y’all feel, though
But y’all ain’t got to like
Us, just let us live, though
And cause we’ black, bruh
Don’t mean we steal, though
And cause we’ from the ghetto
Don’t mean we dumb, bro
We’ just as smart as y’all
But y’all don’t want the world to know
But all we want to know: Why
Y’all hate us so much?
Why y’all hate us so much? Why
Y’all hate us so much?
All we wanna know: Why y’all hate us so much?
Why y’all hate us so much? Why