Nas - Reason Lyrics
[Chorus: Woman singing]I see people hating other peopleTell me what's the reasonThat your kid is hungry, you ain't got no moneyWhat's the reason?[Verse 1: Nas]By the time of age nine I'm already decidin'If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin'Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-oneBy by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartmentAnd we die then, so I been a young nervous wreck in the projectsWatchin' them older niggaz pass pot and they high manI'm just a young boy, snot nose, hair nappyCops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at meSo I would go to school and try to get good gradesTeacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braidsSo she cussed them, said "My son ain't no mother*****in' hoodlum"They judged us, thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come fromGot a little older and now I seeYoung niggaz wanted by the powers that be (powers that be)[Chorus: Woman singing]I see people hating other peopleTell me what's the reasonThat your kid is hungry, you ain't got no moneyWhat's the reason?For these wars we're fighting with each otherSeason after seasonWhen you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'What's the reason?[Verse 2: Nas]Uh, picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th AveShe never had it, it's not hers to begin withShe gives it breakfast, baths and dinnersTreats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone onAin't had a good meal in so long, but so long as mommy's a maidCookin' and cleanin', she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin'Where's my daddy, who's my daddy, have you seen him?I could imagine them askin', what type of human be-ingCould leave his family, go back to the Carribean?Was he locked up, shot up, does he have freedom?Mom said wipe your tears, keep readin'But daddy's somewhere, spirit broken, feelin' defeatedA man feels he has to conquer allThe world is his oyster, his pearl so y'all know[Chorus: Woman singing]I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace'Cause this world keeps spinning, yet still I wonder what's the reasonI see people hating other peopleTell me what's the reasonWhen you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin'What's the reason?Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa[Verse 3: Nas]I know a girl, her boyfriend was a fugitiveShe's intuitive, be on some stupid shitShe called the cops 'cause she hated his motherNow he away doin' numbers, now she gay with her loverHow many niggaz gon' die this summer?I pump life in my music, but still life is a wonderThere's a officer in a squad car, he's a prostitute serial killerIt's odd, huh? 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wifeHe's molestin' his son and she ignores it at nightLittle bad ass bastard, lights a match and kills Betty Shabazzin her pad while she sleptThey said Prescott Bush funded Hitler while the world's in a twisterNigga, what you expect? Imagine what's next[Chorus: Woman singing]I see people hating other peopleTell me what's the reasonThat your kid is hungry, you ain't got no moneyWhat's the reason?For these wars we're fighting with each otherSeason after seasonWhen you're workin' hard, but there ain't nothing comin'What's the reason?[Woman harmonizes as Nas talks:]"Uh, uh, man, man'll search the whole planet, looking for whatTry to conquer all. So what? To all my niggaz with theykids that love they kids, man. All the daddies out thereTo all the niggaz that died tryin'a figure out what's whatTryin'a be the biggest of the big, you know. Yeah, yeahLadies forgive us. Gotta forgive us. For we know not whatwe do. Breakin' hearts, leavin' the crib, buggin' out andshit. Just man... man."
