See I was resting at the park minding my own
business as I kick up the treble tone
on my radio tape player box, right

just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
investigation maybe she was demonstrating

But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
until a group of brothers started bugging out

drinking the 40 oz, going the ^!$$% route
Disrespecting my black queen
holding their crotches and being obscene

At first I ignored them cause see I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
and they see a young couple having a time that's good

and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech cause of my hair-do
and the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !]

I was a target cause I'm a fashion misfit
and the outfit that I'm wearing brothers dissing it
Well I stay calm and pray the ^!$$%z leave me be

but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me


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I am everyday people [x2]


I told the ^!$$%z please let us pass, friend
I said please cause I don't like killing Africans

but he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
but I had to take the brother out for being rude
and like I said before I was mad by then

It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
acting like a ^!$$% and get stomped by an African


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