©1995 C. Perkins, M. Ortega

Rub a dub dub black men get they grub on
And you know this cause we show this
Every single day running through the hood in a sweat suit
Coming back in a Lex coup
What they hit'n fo what ya'll split'n fo
We ain't sweat'n 5 0 no warrant so
Ya'll got nothin on me but ain't gone be no mo
Roots in my neighborhood so chill
I don't want to have to kill cause still
I hit the church house every single weekend can I
Get a witness every day another black owned business
Close down another leader goes down
Look who's zooming who now
For the m-o-n-e-y
I think it's bad but to stop em why try
Brother's mad so its all....

Hook:
for the taker cause ain't nobody given I got to keep livin
not just greedy consider me the needy that's ok with me
it's all for the taker cause ain't nobody given
not just greedy consider me the needy
when will you learn

Bass in yo face on a trac for revenue
Had to take a different avenue run a different block
Cause the feds watch me like a hawk through the day
While I'm out there trying to make a way
Through the temporary agency
but somebody keeps paging me
Who's the caller I'm not no baller get a grip
But the feds got a chip on they shoulder
Now they get'n colder
Time for the set up how am I gone keep my head up
Black folks get'n fed up
Every time we step they just can't except that
So we taken ours being stars expect that
Ain't no more tears every day shifting more gears
Uplifting more peers but spending more years
In the penitentiary and don't get out till the
Twenty third century what you expect?...

Hook:
for the taker cause ain't nobody given I got to keep livin
not just greedy consider me the needy that's ok with me
it's all for the taker cause ain't nobody given
not just greedy consider me the needy
when will you learn

Now they put crack here and they put crack there
Now we cracked with the crack everywhere
Spread through the neighborhood
Generations of generations
Of my people die no explanations
How we gone act right if we don't act white
They don't think we bright enough
For America blame ya government they love it huh
Until we go militant
Cause most of em racist let's trade places for a while
And you try to raise a black child
In the ghetto where you have no choice
But you learn to settle huh
For what you get huh
And that ain't shit
Don't bother trying to change me
You didn't seem so concerned back then
Yea and even though that ain't me
That's just the way some gotta be...

Hook:
for the taker cause ain't nobody given I got to keep livin
not just greedy consider me the needy that's ok with me
it's all for the taker cause ain't nobody given
not just greedy consider me the needy
when will you learn

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