This Generation (Explicit)

Murs This Generation

Came out today 1988

Pops was out to skate

Momma said she was late

Even with his absence I had to adjust

With the madness grew up

A little quicker than your average

Let me taste cause I ain't had none

A young black kid

Brainwashed by rap and rock

VCRs I had the Magnivox

High school we had the campus locked

Non grad sad to drop out but

We needed something to believe in

We're living for the weekend

Teacher said we wouldn't be sh*t

Not bad for some heathens

Thanks for the lack of faith

In judging what I do

This generation

Ain't nothing I can say

What can I tell to you

This generation

They say we ain't playing with a full deck

They let us down why they upset

Nothing but the naked truth I feel undressed

21 gun salute for young vets

Rodney King did what he had to

Now these white girls get to date black dudes

Shorty's into rosaries and rap feuds

Young niggas with snapbacks and tattoos

We fast forward sell a lot of kush

If you rap dude getting hella push

Missed the Reagan era but we got Bush

Talking 'bout the same spot that Barack took

My generation on some other sh*t

Getting faded while we waiting on the mothership

And not dependent on the government

To teach this generation how to love again

Thanks for the lack of faith

In judging what I do

This generation

Ain't nothing I can say

What can I tell to you

This generation

We used to read guns and ammo

Crack coc*ine left the hood in shambles

On the streets of Linwood

Gang bang insane the gang was in hood

Paroo crib

Don't ever let your Jerry curl drip

When the winters don't end

When the homie's big brother just shot his best friend

Get it right through the chest

At the school at the crib playing Russian roulette

And you wonder why we do what we do for the set

Any given moment homie you could be next

It's what we do for respect

Cause this generation got a noose on its neck

We let it all hang out

Society wouldn't let us in so we banged out

Thanks for the lack of faith

In judging what I do

This generation

Ain't nothing I can say

What can I tell to you

This generation