Be A Man

(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
 Fuckin a hundred bitches couldn't mend a broken heart
 Start as a soda jerk job, as a mail clerk
 Fucked this white bitch 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' bitch complained 'bout cummin'
 Pussy stay hummin; $200 parkin, summer's out of state warrants
 High blood pressure pills prescribed by Dr. Lawrence
 Got me gainin weight, fuckin 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' bitch, 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 fuck 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 shit
 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, pussy '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 bitch
 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, motherfuck 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