| «This is probably the most challenging record | 
| You have ever put on your turntable.» | 
| The facts, the facts get fried like your eggs scrambled | 
| Truth until it falls off the ledge lays dead or vexed | 
| Tennis feds (?) need the last price, gassed ego | 
| He don’t show or know about the last nights and days | 
| Of a brother who went for his | 
| My land built on hatred and sent to kids | 
| Ice Cube killed his own and it was square biz | 
| So if I say fuck you to a jew, you know what time it is | 
| Of my own kind but not of my own mind | 
| Came to America but became blind | 
| Chased from the four corners of the earth | 
| But over here it’s alright, at least your ass is white | 
| So sit down and mingle with the devil over supper | 
| The only difference between us and a brother is the color | 
| Instead of hittin the last nail in the coffin try to pull it out | 
| And find out what the hard but true is all about | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| So hard. | 
| but so true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| Hard, what? | 
| Truth sometimes too hard to be true | 
| So I’ma make it stick like glue | 
| Too many times too many crimes get backed up | 
| Case comes up, oops! | 
| Switch all the facts up | 
| Three kids rape a sister at St. John’s | 
| And become graduates, instead of cons | 
| Instead of washin drawers or be somebody’s whore | 
| College wack buffed and polished and they kept the doors closed | 
| Jail time (yeah?) Wasn’t even fazin 'em | 
| Probably one of the fathers gave the school a gymnasium | 
| Korean kills a girl and claims insane, and gets a pardon? | 
| Bring her honor to the court of Nickerson Garden | 
| And get a lifetime sentence of the bent over | 
| Tell a fool, tell a friend and then sent over | 
| Hollow point slugs made of nothin but lead | 
| The hard but true is takin you straight to the head | 
| Reggie McBride, yeah. | 
| Asalaam alaikum to a Muslim | 
| Shalom alaikum is the same to a Hebrew | 
| Peace akeem, akeem peace to a Zulu | 
| Tell me what’s the difference why you riffin what’s the point of view? | 
| Universal greeting is the same | 
| The game is three-sixty it don’t matter what the slang | 
| Gangs of thugs carry slugs use the mind as a Glock 9 | 
| Wake the ones then shake the ones | 
| Then make the ones come into the daytime | 
| And spark the mark labelled X | 
| And knowledge the text | 
| Use the wit not as a whip reload the clip then shoot from the hip | 
| Cause yo! | 
| This is some ol' next shit | 
| One circle, one hurdle, one jump | 
| One nation under the groove, and then over the hump | 
| Of racist dogs, that keep barkin in the street | 
| Serch’ll bring the hard but true to your feet, complete! | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but yo, it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| It’s hard. | 
| but it’s true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| So hard. | 
| so true | 
| The hard but the true | 
| Yeah Wolf & Epic, cool | 
| Ay you, ay you ay you, ay you ay you | 
| Ay you, it’s hard but it’s true | 
| Ay you, ay you ay you ay you | 
| It’s hard but it’s true, you hebrew or you jew | 
| Your christian, your muslim, your islam, your brother, your sister | 
| It’s hard but it’s true. | 
| peace |