| You might think that you know me,
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| You know where I’m coming from,
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| You might think everything’s all good,
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| But at the end of the day you’re all wrong!
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| All blue chuck taylors, blue dodger hat,
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| 85 Regal, my daughter in the back.
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| I’m just a gangsta to most of y’all,
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| On the real we’re just hanging on the way to the mall.
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| Week days I’m RN down at kaiser Weekends at church, I’m a youth adviser.
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| Just because I’m doing good I can’t forget my roots,
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| I can never feel right in a tie &suit.
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| 501's a plain white «t"and I stay gettin' stopped by the LAPD.
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| That’s just life growin' up in south central,
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| I been done move, but it’s not that simple.
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| I gotta come back, my grandmomma there,
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| Sometimes it’s drama, but I really don’t care.
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| Here’s my neighbourhood and I love it,
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| Showin' all the little homies you can rise above it!
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| You might think that you know me,
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| You know where I’m coming from,
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| You might think everything’s all good,
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| But at the end of the day you’re all wrong!
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| All red chuck taylors and red dodger hat,
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| Posted up at market with a bottle of yack.
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| I’m just a gangsta, that’s what they say,
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| But on the real homeboy I just had a bad day.
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| Ten interviews, no call backs,
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| PO askin' me where my job at.
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| I’m an ex-con and it’s almost useless,
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| I’m a felon, don’t mean that I’m stupid.
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| Got cut up, tried as an adult
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| Lost five years of my life as a result.
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| In the feds I prayed and I read
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| Anything to keep the system out of my head.
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| I read Zinn, Jung, Bukowski
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| You really don’t know a damn thing about me.
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| I probably gotta higher IQ than you,
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| These jobs ain’t hiring, what should I do…
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| You might think that you know me,
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| You know where I’m coming from,
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| You might think everything’s all good,
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| But at the end of the day you’re all wrong!
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| Black dickies, black Cortez,
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| White wife beater, a fresh shaved head.
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| I’m just a gangsta, that’s what you thinkin',
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| You see me in the crew, posted up by Lincoln.
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| You see my tattoos, figure why I bother,
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| Really I’m an artist and I got my own parlor
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| Hard workin' father, wife and two daughters,
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| Strugglin', trying to keep our heads above water.
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| I’m a tax payer, I’m bilingual
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| I’m chicano, I’m not an illegal.
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| Tryin' to live your American dream,
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| But you keep judging me about how I wear my jeans.
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| They’re 42s, they’re starched and they creased
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| I gotta education, I got proper speech.
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| I’m from the streets, I’m not less of a man,
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| Just trying to get by and do the best that I can!
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| You might think that you know me,
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| You know where I’m coming from,
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| You might think everything’s all good,
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| But at the end of the day you’re all wrong! |