People Everyday

[00:06.38] People
[00:09.33] Right about this time, stay loose
[00:11.28] Cool, chilled licks by one called, Arrested Development
[00:13.85] Say, come on, selectah, easy
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[00:26.53] See, I was resting at the park minding my own
[00:30.17] Business as I kick up the treble tone
[00:32.78] On my radio tape player box, right?
[00:35.75] Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?
[00:38.76] Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
[00:42.36] Investigation, maybe she was demonstrating
[00:44.95] But nevertheless I was pleased
[00:47.86] My day was going great and my soul was at ease
[00:50.62] Until a group of brothers started buggin' out
[00:53.59] Drinkin' the 40 oz, going the nigga route
[00:58.33] Disrespecting my black queen
[01:00.05] Holding their crotches and being obscene
[01:02.94] At first I ignored 'em 'cause, see, I know their type
[01:05.58] They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
[01:08.73] And they see a young couple having a time that's good
[01:11.72] And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
[01:14.64] So they came to test Speech 'cause of my hairdo
[01:17.70] And the loud bright colors that I wear
[01:20.58] I was a target 'cause I'm a fashion misfit
[01:23.77] And the outfit that I'm wearing, brothers dissin' it
[01:26.72] Well I stay calm and pray the niggas leave me be
[01:30.33] But they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
[01:33.02] Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me?
[01:35.51] 'Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me! See?
[01:38.99] I am everyday people
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[01:50.51] You see, I am everyday people
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[02:02.53] I told the niggas, "Please let us pass, friend"
[02:05.57] I said "Please", 'cause I don't like killing Africans
[02:08.66] But he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
[02:11.63] But I had to take the brother out for being rude
[02:14.52] And like I said before, I was mad by then
[02:17.58] It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
[02:20.49] But that's the story y'all of a black man
[02:23.30] Acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African
[02:26.53] You see
[02:27.16] I am everyday people (everyday, yeah)
[02:38.56] You see, I am everyday people
[02:45.69] The moral of the story is
[02:52.72] You better look very hard at who you step into
[02:54.98] 'Cause you might get killed, or shot, and it's not worth it
[02:57.48] Africans need to be loving each other, and unite
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