I Don’t Know Why

Lyrics

[Chorus: Keisha Shontelle] I don't know why The road I choose to take is far from yours 'Cause when you're high I know (I kno-o-o-ow) If you could read my mind Then I'll be saving time telling you that I just live how... I kno-o-o-ow [Intro: Buckshot] What y'all don't know Why I live my life this way Why I do what I do with the day Do what I do, from New York to LA and back Uh From New York... to North Cackalack Uh, it's like this, it's like that Yeah [Verse 1: Buckshot] What y'all don't know Never be afraid of the hole Even though I hustle in public, I stay on the low Had to make dough, dough makes moves, moves make miracles come true What is it come to? Everybody hustlin', strugglin', bubblin' Turning nothin' into somethin', then here they come again Lights and sirens, ambulances, shots is firing Look at this life that I've been... Involved in, still solving problems Put it down for my crown, still around tomorrow when Hip-Hop might fade out, or get played out At least y'all got my plans 'cause it's laid out I stayed on the route, I stayed focused against the ropes and I brought the hope to the hopeless I wrote this with my people in mind 'Cause every line is designed just to reach you in time, but hey... [Chorus: Keisha Shontelle] I don't know why The road I choose to take is far from yours 'Cause when you're high I know (I kno-o-o-o-ow) If you could read my mind Then I'll be saving time telling you that I just live how... I kno-o-o-ow [Verse 2: Buckshot] I, rep, hip-hop to the fullest And I prove it when I do this on stage with the rulers From the past and the present KRSes and the Rakim Allahs killing them bars with the lessons But now... all I see is niggas bananas Go to war, different colors but the same bandanas It's... kinda funny what money could do Either you gon' try to change or be the same, to be true, but me? I love hip-hop, I plan to be in this until it stop Some milk the cow til it drip-drop I, made a pit stop and took me a break And reminisce of all the time that it took me to make What I made, 'cause I dedicate All my time as a renegade I've never been afraid, so I'm tellin' them hey You can say what you say to me But it's OK 'cause I'm sucka free, I stay with these [Chorus: Keisha Shontelle] I don't know why The road I choose to take is far from yours 'Cause when you're high I know (I kno-o-o-ow) If you could read my mind Then I'll be saving time telling you that I just live how... I kno-o-o-ow [Verse 3: Buckshot] Y'all don't know How much work is put down So I put my foot down and my hood now show 'em how I'm out here with general pop The rest of y'all dudes is free but your mental is locked You get, writer's block when your mind stop But tell me, what would you do if crime stops? Every time the weather is hot, I notice how niggas love to shoot And I don't mean the basketball hoops But tell me, what would you do or how would you act If every rap band spit facts on tracks, how 'bout that? Now, only jewels you possess is a Jesus piece And you a Muslim, running the streets And everybody that you meet, it's "Salaam alaykum" Next week, you with a white chick, frying some bacon Next year, you Jamaican, eating tofu steaks I peep, so many fakes when I go through states I tell 'em [Bridge: Buckshot with Keisha Shontelle] I don't know why, they wanna act like that But I know I, ain't going out like that And yet so far, when I put it down on the map I rep this like that I don't know why, they wanna act like that But I know I, ain't going out like that And yet so far, way I put it down on the map I rep this like that [Chorus (mixed with bridge ad-libs): Keisha Shontelle (Buckshot)] (I don't know why) I don't know why The road I choose to take is far from yours (But I know I) (And yet so far) 'Cause when you're high I know (I kno-o-o-ow) (I don't know why) If you could read my mind Then I'll be saving time telling you that (But I know I) (And yet so far) I just live how... I kno-o-o-ow (Rep this, like that)