Young, Gifted and Black

I'm America's worst nightmare I'm young, black, and holding my nuts like "yea!" While ya'll was at the pub, havin' a light beer I was at the club, havin' a fight there Ya'll can go home, husband and wife there My momma at work tryin' to buy me the right gear Nine years old uncle lost his life here I grew up thinkin' life ain't fair How can I get a real job, china white right there Right in front of my sight like here, yea There's ya ticket out the ghetto take flight right here Tell on me you go bye-bye here, damn There's a different set of rules we abide by here You need a gun, niggas might drive by here Ya'll havin' fun, racin' all ya hot-rods there Downloadin' all our music on ya iTunes there I'm Chuck-D, standin' in the crosshairs here Ya'll straight, chicks got horse hair here Ya'll ain't gotta be in fear of ya'll bosses there You lose your job, your pop rich, ya'll don't care So I don't care, ya'll acting like ya'll don't hear All the screams from the ghetto, or the teens ducking metal here So they steam like a kettle here Trying to take they mind to a whole different level here Yea, we real close to devil here Got to be a better way somebody call a reverend here My little cuz never got to see his seventh year And I'm so used to pain, that I ain't even shed a tear