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RZA lyrics : "Be A Man"

[sampled singer singing "Be a man"
and "bad situation man" throughout the song]


[RZA]
Yeah it's Bobby Digital
Just floatin over +The City+

I came across this, this, this black man
He was talkin about (look down below)


Sure of yourself risin, prices of food skyrisin
Foreign countries movin in USA, enterprisin
Snatchin your mic then speakin, while you might be leakin

Then losin the luxury, average man be seekin
Thought he was so smart; hoe's cheatin, life fall apart
$#&@in a hundred (*##$es couldn't mend a broken heart

Start as a soda jerk job, as a mail clerk
$#&@ed this white (*##$ in the office, got fired from work
Nine-to-five, government high taxes, police dispatches

Beauracatic attackin black Asiatics, resident with bad plumbin
Cocaine got my brain numb an' (*##$ complained 'bout###min'
#~!!@ stay hummin; $200 parkin, summer's out of state warrants

High blood pressure pills prescribed by Dr. Lawrence
Got me gainin weight, $#&@in up my right kidney
Cousin raped at school Allah wit me

Peoples' eyes closed like envelopes by folk membership
With unpaid doctor bills
Framed got shot and killed, cops poppin pills

Three pair cotton, steel closet, cabinet of +No Frills+
Mo' bills, sister got evicted from Park Hill
Punch a hole inside the NARC wheels

My dogs bark, still carry dark steel
And unmarked bills, I'm from the uncut, dope, found on director's reels
Bobby Digital may switch back to Bobby Steels

Rusty .38's, bought rust inside the herb gate
So +Hungry+, son, 'bout to shrink down to a bird's weight
Rash break out, where's the blue ointment, face-to-face appointments

Un-proudly in the church paid for annointment
Bet the checks don't come late
About to separate with her man

In +The City+, +Domestic Violence+ excavates
Get a highest ratio in five years
The idea is to plant fear

Boy you slap yo' (*##$, po-lice is there to cuff you or snuff you
They might bust you
Cause your hoe snatched your money up, didn't want to $#&@ you

We must learn to communicate, and unificate
Stop the black on black, hate on hate
White on white, black on white

Put the love in love
I'm blunted up, blasted inside the strip club
Shorty wop, fifteen year old, all she needed was love

And mo' dough so she won't have to show her knotty afro
Collect call from my son to now, he might blow trial
Foul cut, and cop out to a 3 to 6

Bad situations, bein a man is hard %#@!
Somethin'll get trapped out, I mean, yo
Got crack fiends in spots with vaccine shots

Black teens drop out of high school, white teens sellin stock
with bonds they can't put their word on
20 years, shorty wop, #~!!@ 'bout to swerve on

Up in the crib, new fridge, dead pig
Two kids, pawned this older cat who looked like Calvin Coolridge
But got splat in his back last year

Robbin' his jewel inside the diamond district
No one got convicted, heard they never found the biscuit
I'm booby trapped by the capitalists

Tryin to subsist, sometimes happiness is hot grits and catfish
Or a bowl of Cookie Crisp, I got harassed by this rookie (*##$
Talkin' 'bout I couldn't put my feet on the fire hydrants

to tie my kicks, $50 ticket, 'bout to strike and picket
and shout at the City Hall, mother$#&@ the wicked
Too greedy, give to the needy, down on my luck

'bout to jab a ouija board, that's when Bobby Digi seen me
Said, "Yo son, don't stress out over no one, learn the slogan:
Knowledge is half the battle, that's one to grow on

And don't be counterfeit
It's a bad situation which bein a man, but we got to handle it"
Bad situation when you ain't bein a man

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