Arrested Development

People Everyday

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

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

See I am everyday people

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

You see I am everyday people

The moral of the story is

You better look very hard on who you step into

As you might get killed or shot and it's not worth

Africans need to be loving each other and you know