Verse 1: will.i.am] Street livin', caught in a trap Guns or books, sell crack or rap Be like kings or be like pawns They called us coons, now they call us cons Street niggas be packing pistols Terrorists be blasting missles Crips and bloods and retail thugs CIA planes bring Columbian drugs Don't push me cause I'm close to hell And compare to them, prison guards get payed well Ten years no bail is 4 years at Yale So, forget about the statue of General Lee Because the status of blacks are generally Are gonna end up in some penititary Systematically, that's how they made it to be Listen, they derailed the soul train And put a nightmare into every Martin Luther kING And private complexes are owned by the same Slave masters that owned the slave trade game And racists no longer have to be racist Cuz' niggas kill more niggas than the KKK did Now, every time I hear a new Def Jam Niggas killing niggas like they Ku Klux Klan I understand what's a nigga to choose? Be the killer or be the dead dude in the news I get it, what's a nigga to do? No education in the hood, got a nigga confused
[Chorus] Street livin', tough conditions Brainwashed by the television We lost in the war we live in Double cross love lost no religion Street livin', oh my gosh Another brother got shot by the searg' Another cop got off with no charge If you black in the hood, you at large
[Verse 2: Taboo] You're guilty until we prove you're innocent If you're ivory, they treat you different If you're ebony, they assume your temperment Well, be vigilant, and they call you militant You'll get shot, and they'll say the incident Is because you're beligerent What a coincidence?
블랙 아이드 피스 (Black Eyed Peas)-STREET LIVIN`
1995년 결성된 4인조 혼성 힙합 밴드. 힙합을 기본으로 펑크와 댄스튠, 록을 결합한 독특한 스타일을 자랑한다. 멤버는 윌아이엠(Will.i.am), 애플딥(apl.de.ap), 타부(Taboo) 세 명의 래퍼와 보컬을 맡은 퍼기(Fergie)로 구성.
