See i was resting at the park minding my own
business as i kick up the treble tone
on my radio tape player box, right
just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see ?
outta nowhere comes the woman i'm dating
investigation maybe she was demonstrating
but nevertheless i was pleased
my day was going great and my soul was at ease
until a group of brothers started bugging out
drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route
disrespecting my black queen
holding their crotches and being obscene
at first i ignored them cause see i know their type
they got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
and they see a young couple having a time that's good
and their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
so they came to test speech cause of my hair-do
and the loud bright colors that i wear [boo !]
i was a target cause i'm a fashion misfit
and the outfit that i'm wearing brothers dissing it
well i stay calm and pray the niggaz leave me be
but they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
why, lord, do brothers have to drill me ?
cause if i start to hit this man they'll have to kill me
[chorus:] i am everyday people (2x)
I told the niggaz please let us pass, friend
i said please cause i don't like killing africans
but he wouldn't stop and i ain't ice cube
but i had to take the brother out for being rude
and like i said before i was mad by then
it took three or four cops to pull me off of him
but that's the story y'all of a black man
acting like a nigga and get stomped by an african
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