Junior Reid

If It Was Up II Me
I hear we livin' in the last daysIts revelation and you best get right with godOr else is waitin', the world is comin' to an endEveryday is a storm or a flood, tsunamis, this shit ain't the normWe got Katrina and Rita minds keep collapsingWith the fires and mud slides, I'm like whats happenin'Got the kids in the school gettin' raped and molestedUnder-funded, unprotected no wonder they testedAnd the lowest percentage rate, In my city damn near the lowest in the stateYou can equate that to the state funds That ain't breakin' down right,Rich districts get more and poor ones less, and it just don't sound rightSo I'm fittin' to pound right on the doors of my city hallAnd kick them doors down, they killin' my city yallWe need to get my people back to where they should beAnd since nobody else is gonna do it its gonna have to be me[Chorus: Junior Reid]If it was up to me, No gun, no crack, or whore could of comin' in our communityIf it was up to me,You couldn't have no war between Tupac and B.I.GIf it was up to me, They couldn't lock up Shyne and they couldn't lock up EmceeIf it was up to me, Letras de cancionesYou wouldn't have no aids and you wouldn't have no H.I.VFirst of all the projects is fucked upAnd it ain't just with the drugs, We got more problems than just the dealers and thugsThey using lead based paint, and investments is killing usWe tell 'em to fix it up but they just ain't feelin' usThey rather kicks us out and tear it down to the groundSo they can put up a parking lot, a mall, or some condosCondemn the whole place cause if you sell crack Shit the rest ain't do nothin' wrong, what the fucks up with thatThey say one rotten apple can spoil the whole bunch But we talkin' bout some people not apples, this ain't lunchMake me wanna punch a politician dead in his faceYou say you represent my district, get your ass on the caseDevelopment is good for the hood yeah thats what you tellin' usBut bitch you on the pay roll of the builders and developersFuck what you sellin' us, pipe dreams for suckersYou can take that around the corner to them other motherfuckers manSo much youth they sacrificeJust to live in paradisePlay they tricks and tell they lies I knowIts hurting to see how they treat the poorThey have so much and still they still want moreI see my people everyday on the floor[Chorus]Its time to educate the people man, free school and collegeSo everybody cross the border can get the same knowledge education leads to jobs and jobs kill povertyAnd no more poverty means we makin' money obviouslyEverybody makin' money everybody smilin'Motherfuckers ain't eatin', them motherfuckers wildin'Matter fact speakin' of eatin' lets feed the homeless in AmericaLet these motherfuckers handle their own shitHow am I gonna clean your house, and mine still dirtyHow am I gonna feed your kids, and mine still thirstyAnd speakin' of the kids we need to spend some more time with 'emCant turn 'em loose in the streets, cause they dying in 'emAnd all this naked ass sex man you trippin', fuck love Im livin life you aint gonna catch your boy slippin'You say your boy trippin', I'm just keepin' in it GCause you could see how good the world would be if it was up to me[Chorus] So much youth they sacrificeJust to live in paradisePlay they tricks and tell they lies I know From Letras Mania