Ras Kass - The Evil That Men Do lyrics

Psssshh, I guess niggas don't realize a
Good thing til it's gone
You know what I'm sayin man?
Running around in these streets trickin
Shit's hard man you know? But sometimes man
Fools be bringin that shit on
They god damn self

Nappy headed nigga stigmatism at birth
Born to a family of four and
So that makes me one-fourth
Of a dysfunctional home
I had a father who only
Stayed to see me grown
When I turned twelve he was gone
Alone, no role model
I used to watch my Granddaddy
And Uncle hit the bottle
And then hit each other
Granddaddy beat Grandmother
But that's before my time
But I still see how it affected her mind
As a child I introverted, and drew pictures
While my mother prayed to Jesus
Reading King James scriptures
She used to take me to church so
I could put money in the basket
Tell the preacher how she used
To get her ass kicked
And me, I mastered the art of hatred
After pops left ran with my
Niggas tryin to take shit
Petty theft, I got caught a few times
But bust it life is a bitch so fuck it
In eighty-one I remember the night
I covered myself with baby powder
So my black ass could be light
Cause God is white, and Bo Derek is a ten
I hate my black skin
It's just a sin to be a nigga
Then again, I'm like the Frenchman
Cause Granny's creole
And therefore, we're black French people
So I think it's best if
I go to Catholic school
And study under nuns and then
I'll be a Catholic fool
Cause none of these courts want none of us up
And don't none want to see none
Of us live to be adults, sheeit
No wonder brothers take lives
For red and blue it's the evil that men do

But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop

Nigga, nigga wake yo' punk ass up nigga!
Nigga smack smack wake yo'
Wake yo' punk ass up! siren
(Where the fuck we at?) helicopter
Nigga, one time nigga
(Man I feel strange man
And I'm fin to go man)
Shit, I'mma get you out, shit, bitches man)
(Fuck that shit man
Nigga what the fuck am I gonna do man?) siren
We go make another gold LP
Nigga stop trippin nigga
Nigga we own a gold LP, nigga stop trippin!

By the time I hit adolescence and
Found hair on my nuts
I grew twelve inches so now
It's time to fuck sluts
Never respected women
Just had to keep my dick wet
Fucked this virgin named Lena, I made a bet
With my homies I could hit it first
Then kicked her to the curb
Til next year, I got a call from my man Kurt
Since I never used jims I left
A seed in the Earth
That left a nigga feelin like dirt
Cause now I'm a father
And got a two-week old daughter
Ironically, don't even know her name
It's a damn shame and ol girl never told me
She was havin my baby
The more I thought about
She fuckin played me
Cause the family's lookin at me
Like I raped her
Plus with another fuckin mouth to
Feed I need paper did a caper
And took my Guinness Stout to the head
September 1990, drunk drivin
The light turned red
Somebody hit from the rear, I hit the brakes
Then lost control of the steering wheel
Hit a black Camaro and that's
All I remember that night
I woke up to a 5-0 flashlight
The car that I hit had exploded on impact
One woman escaped, but the
Driver was trapped, he burned to death
Manslaughter, off to C-Y-A
Liftin weights in the yard and
Playin spades all day
Now I'm eighteen, hit the County in the mix
"Name and last three!" Austin, oh-six-six
By now Grandpa went crazy and
My Uncle had died and me I'm at the ranch
Makin pruno in Wayside
In ninety-three, I got probation
Searchin for an occupation, cause
Now I'm payin restitution, confusion
I'm lookin at myself and seein
Every other nigga I knew
It's the evil that men do

But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop
But every nigga on my block can't stop
And it won't stop and it don't stop