Look Around You

Lyrics

Open your eyes See the world for what it really is [Verse 1] I gotta deal with this lying and perpetrating, stressing and straining Not succeeding, procrastinating, point fingers and blaming The temptation of women, lust, and the failure to fight it Getting doors slammed in my face and still smiling despite it Learning how to check my ego and accepting correction The hope of accomplishment mixed with the fear of rejection The struggle to make my own knowledge reach its eliteness Wanna cry but holding back to show no signs of my weakness The good and the evil that clash in constant defiance That live inside of me joined in a unholy alliance Supposed to be partners who ain't never down when you need 'em The thin line that sits between incarceration and freedom The ways we praise things and disrespect one another Showing more love to our cars than we show to each other The deep spiritual famine that we rarely examine Damaging thought mismanagement the hand of Satan's programming [Chorus] So look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop Look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop [Verse 2] Against our own people, we quick to let cappin' ensue Don't care about nobody's problems 'til it happen to you The genocidal antics, evil commandments that run rampant The devilish pamphlets handed to man on every campus Envious mental condition that lacks religion The disproportional percentages of blacks in prison You won't show up for a protest, you'll hide like cowards But you'll wait in line to see a concert for two hours In our community, the Arabs and Chinese got stores Getting rich off of your black dollar but fool, where yours? Out here hustling, risking, doing time in the tank Hundred and fifty dollar shoes on and not a dime in the bank Some people you only see when they wanna borrow some paper And then they come up missing when it's time to return the favor Matters if we roll legit, the profiling won't cease White people feel safe, we tense up when we see the police [Chorus] So look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop Look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop [Verse 3] Full scheming and back-dooring, talking but never showing Tryna bring you down with 'em 'cause they ain't got nothing going Tryna poison your dreams with hate and manipulation Blatant statements that break spirit-raping your motivation Grew up never trusting and got accustomed to scuffling Don't let nobody tell you you'll never amount to nothing If invalid men with sinful intentions slander you endless If you let words destroy you, then you was weak to begin with Got problems, survive 'em, quit judging others and guide 'em Need to stop looking at people and start looking inside 'em Why you crying over somebody that's being untrue? Stressing over a person who ain't even thinking about you We make seeds then we break up, our families ain't building How you gon' let a judge decide what's best for your children Can you overcome and progress? That's the true test I avoid the stress and strap on my hater-proof vest [Chorus] So look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop Look around you, put some knowledge into your dome Stop making everybody else rich and go get your own Quit stressing over the salt that individuals drop Don't be trippin' when people talk about your trip when they stop