Nas, Megaski - Reason lyrics

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
That your kid is hungry
You ain't got no money what's the reason?

By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'
If I can protect mommy from
The hood by fightin'
Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one
By by then them hoods woulda pushed
Their way in our apartment and we die then
So I been a young nervous
Wreck in the projects
Watchin' them older niggas pass pot
And they high man
I'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappy
Cops ride by squeezin' their
Trigger fingers at me
So I would go to school and
Try to get good grades
Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me
Outta school for havin' braids
So she cussed them
Said "My son ain't no motherfuckin' hoodlum"
They judged us, thinking that we dumb cause
Where we come from
Got a little older and now I see
Young niggas wanted by the powers that be
(powers that be)

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
That your kid is hungry
You ain't got no money what's the reason?
For these wars we're fighting with each other
Season after season
When you're workin' hard
But there ain't nothing comin'
What's the reason?

Uh, picture a Black nanny and a baby
In a basket pushin' down 5th Ave
She never had it, it's not hers to begin with
She gives it breakfast, baths and dinners
Treats it so tender while her own kids live
Alone at home with no phone on
Ain't had a good meal in so long
But so long as mommy's a maid
Cookin' and cleanin'
She wanna feed her kids and
Her kids are dreamin'
Where's my daddy, who's my daddy
Have you seen him?
I could imagine them askin'
What type of human be-ing
Could leave his family
Go back to the Carribean?
Was he locked up, shot up
Does he have freedom?
Mom said wipe your tears, keep readin'
But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken
Feelin' defeated
A man feels he has to conquer all
The world is his oyster
His pearl so y'all know

I can't find no reason why we
Can't all live in peace
Cause this world keeps spinning
Yet still I wonder what's the reason

I see people hating other people
Tell me what's the reason
When you're workin' hard but
There ain't nothin' comin'
What's the reason? Oooh-whoa ooh-whoa

I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitive
She's intuitive, be on some stupid shit
She called the cops cause
She hated his mother
Now he away doin' numbers
Now she gay with her lover
How many niggas gon' die this summer?
I pump life in my music
But still life is a wonder
There's a officer in a squad car
He's a prostitute serial killer it's odd
Huh? Cause he's the same cop
In church with his wife
He's molestin' his son and she
Ignores it at night little bad ass bastard
Lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz
In her pad while she slept
They said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while
The world's in a twister
Nigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next

Emily harmonizes as Nas talks:
"Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet
Looking for what
Try to conquer all so what? To
All my niggas with they
Kids that love they kids
Man all the daddies out there
To all the niggas that died
Tryin'a figure out what's what
Tryin'a be the biggest of the
Big, you know yeah, yeah
Ladies forgive us gotta forgive us
For we know not what
We do breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib
Buggin' out and shit just man man"