State Of The Union - Rapper Big Pooh, T3 of Slum Village

Would the people come see it?

Would the people come see it?

(If I wrote a great novel, would anyone read it?)

Would anyone read it?

Would anyone read it?

(The truth, I’ll write it and continue to amaze)

They continue to amaze, they continue to amaze

(If the North would’ve lost, would I still be a slave?)

Would I still be a slave?

Would I still be a slave?

(The roses do grow out of project pave)

Out of project pave, out of project pave

(Little white kids, too, need to be saved)

Too need to be saved, too need to be saved

(Life is a play and the world is your stage)

Stage… play ya role, nigga

Times is gettin tough, we all countin coins

Rock boy slang envisionin Donald Goines

Young girls dream of bein the new B

Grow up, be glam, and marry a Jay-Z

Life it shouldn’t be, but this how we livin

Grown men crusin middle schools for the children

Blowin up buildings, gas four bucks

The rich gettin richer and the rest gettin fucked

We preach education when our schools ain’t shit

College forty grand and that’s IF they admit

Tyrone from the 'jects, single-parent home

Never leave the crib, without that chrome

Sports and entertainment ain’t ALL that we have

Before you assume, my nigga, do the math

I keep gettin questioned 'bout people in my past

Tell me that the good die young, have last

It’s the, state of the union my nigga, we up soon

They call it terrorist when we don’t play by the rules

It’s racism when we try to speak our views

It’s known as realism when they show it on the news

It’s the, state of the union my nigga, we up soon

It’s hard to get it in when you destined to lose

We gotta move for the young and impressionable

The Xs' and Os' - let’s go!

Rap is gettin crazy, this ain’t competition

Niggas think beef is the way, ya start dissin

Niggas think beef is the way, just fishin

Even more reason to stay out the kitchen

Rapper been pitchin, words to the track

Every rapper now got they start in the trap

They start flippin packs.

money before the deal

Just last month, you sponsored 'em on a meal

Why keep it real when drugs can get you paid?

And just like Hammer, that fad will, too, fade

Lie about your dealin, disrespectful to the trade

It’s killin our people by the hundreds every day

The media attacks, you try and back away

Stand by what you said, get the fuck out the way

Real niggas here do this shit everyday

They don’t kids come around talkin play