R.E.A.L.I.T.Y.

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life

In The Youth

These are the streets

Sh*t is real out here

This ain't no f**kin joke

I lived in a spot called Millbrooke Projects

The original Criminal Minded rap topic

With twenty cents in my pocket I saw the light

If you're young gifted and black

You got no rights

Your only true right is a right to a fight

And not a fair fight

I wake up wonderin who died last night

Everyone and everything is at war

Makin my poetic expression hardcore

I ain't afraid to say it

And many can't get with it

At times in my life

I was a welfare recipient

I ate the free cheese

While the church said believe

And went to school everyday

Like a god damn fool

Well anyway here I am

Chillin at the party

Brothers lookin at me like they wanna kill somebody

A cypher manifested in the center of the jam

I got to show these wack rappers really who I am

It's me against them

So I clear the phlegm

And wage the war hardcore to the end

For someone lookin inside

Yeah from the out

It seems like disrespect is what rap is all about

But hip-hop as a culture

Is really what we give it

But sometimes the culture contradicts how we live it

Cause every black kid lives two and three lives

The city's a jungle

Only the strong will survive

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth

Every single day I hear lie after lie

Like Black people don't die

We multiply

So when I kick a rhyme I represent how I feel

The sacred street art of keepin it real

Why I gotta listen to somebody else

How they got wealth let me talk about myself

But all I really got is hip-hop and a glock

The results are obvious

If I'm confined to my block

Occasionally in the city I'm released

To meet other beasts lookin for the feast

We grunt and growl on the prowl

As the air gets thinner

Yo yo there he go him there's the dinner

White meat carryin a bag of some sort

Life is short white meat is quickly caught

A scuffle a muffle yet none of us hesitated

Like Mother Africa white meat is violated

We quickly dissapear like Santa's little elves

And go into a area to fight amongst ourselves

We say peace/piece cause that's what we really want

A piece of the pie that America flaunts

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life In The Youth

Oh sh*t

The truth is that police must serve and protect

REALITY is black youth is shown no respect

The truth is government has a war against ***

REALITY is government is ruled by thugs

With all this technology

Above and under

Humanity still hunts down one another

Rappers display artistic cannibalism

Through lyricism

We fight each other over rhythm

Through basic animal instincts we think

So the battle for mental territory is glory

End of story

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life

In The Youth

Reality ain't always the truth

Rhymes Equal Actual Life

In The Youth

Yeah

These are the streets

Sh*t is real out here

This ain't no f**kin joke