We Can Make It Better

Lyrics

[Chorus: Kanye West & The Three Degrees] (Breaking up) We can make it better (Breaking up) We can make it better (Breaking up) We can make it better (Breaking up) We can make it [Verse 1: Kanye West] Somebody told me Deltas brown-skinned, AKAs light-skinned And they supposed to be bougie, so they got white friends First day of school, I'mma take you sightseein' Show you what we do on weekends for excitement She said, "I know what you about to say, like your hypeman" Last year, a nigga hit her, now, she only date white men And if a nigga even wave at her, it's frightenin', but [Chorus: Kanye West, Tony Williams & The Three Degrees] (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can make it on up, we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it [Verse 2: Talib Kweli] The night fallin' over Brooklyn where they murder for change The converter remains faithful to the drug dealer priestess He inserts the word in they vein, you heard of the name Kweli the truth like I'm comin' out the mouths of babes One foot in and one foot out the grave Niggas want they reparations. How you calculate the amount to be paid? You try to imagine America without the slaves (The slaves) [Chorus: Kanye West & Talib Kweli, Tony Williams, Q-Tip & The Three Degrees] (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) (Yeah) We can make it better (Better we can make it on up, we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it (Good looks, Ye!) [Verse 3: Q-Tip] (Yo, uh) Her tenement, yo, is rat infested Her heart is like a gold bullion because she went and protested 'Cause her best friend's man got popped He was sixteen years old. The cop thought his phone was a Glock In the hood, it's an everyday happenin' In front of the precinct, she chews out the captain She yells out, "Why y'all do this to black men?" C'mon [Chorus: Kanye West, Talib Kweli & Q-Tip, Q-Tip, Common, Tony Williams & The Three Degrees] (Breaking up) (Uh) We can make it better (Better we can, yeah) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can make it on up, we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Uh, yeah) (Breaking up) We can make it [Verse 4: Common] I think of eighty-seven ways to make better days Whether crime or rhyme, I heard the rebel pays On the scene, tryin' to get green like everglades The music, ridin' it good like Escalades In the ghetto infested by shade and drama And niggas wit' thangs ain't afraid of karma I'm thinkin' big like Lil Wayne and Tha Carters's that— [Chorus: Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip & Common, Tony Williams & The Three Degrees] (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can make it on up, we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it [Verse 5: Rhymefest] (C'mon. Look) Tell people the truth, but never give 'em your true thoughts Terrorism on blacks, they poison our Newports Patriot Act in effect, make it hard to breathe now Johnnie Cochran dead, who gonna get us "Us free" now? Clinton ain't in office, who gon' give us shit free now? Who gon' make it better for the thugs in the penal? Who gon' make it good for old folks that's senile? Oh, it's G.O.O.D. Music. Yeah, dawg, I see now [Chorus: Kanye West, Talib Kweli, Q-Tip & Common, Tony Williams & The Three Degrees] We can make it better (better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can make it on up, we can) (Breaking up) We can make it better (Better we can) (Breaking up) We can make it [Outro: The Three Degrees] Breaking up. It's so very hard Breaking up. It's so very hard Breaking up. It's so very hard Breaking up