Aha, it`s dead real
Yo, why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets
Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt
And why them dudes ain`t ridin` if there part of your set
And why they never get it poppin` but they party to death
Yea, and why they gon` give you life for a murder
Turn around only give you eight months for a burner, it`s goin` down
Why they sellin` ni**az, CD`s for under a dime?

If it`s all love daddy why you come wit` your nine?
Why my ni**az ain`t get that cake?
Why is a brother up North better than Jordan?
That ain`t get that break
Why you ain`t stackin` instead of tryin` to be fly?
Why is rattin` at an all time high?

Why are you even alive?
Why they kill Tupac n` Chris?
Why at the bar you ain`t take straight shots instead of poppin` Criss?
Why them bullets have to hit that door?
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw?
Why he kiss that whore? Why?

All that I been givin`
Is this pain that I`ve been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that?

Try`d to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why?
Why they do me like that?

Why would ni**az push pounds and powder?
Why did bush knock down the towers?
Why you around them cowards?
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight?
Why my ni**a D ain`t pull out his Ferrari?
Why he take that bike?
Why they gotta open your package and read your mail?
Why they stop lettin` ni**az get degreez in jail?
Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time?

And why do ni**az lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes?
Why a ni**a always want what he can`t have?
Why I can`t come through in the pecan Jag?
Why did crack have to hit so hard even though it`s almost over?
Why ni**az can`t get no jobs?
Why they come up wit` the witness protection?
Why they let the terminator win the election?
Come on, pay attention
Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets?
Why I say the hottest s**t but be sellin` the least?

All that I been givin`
Is this pain that I`ve been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that?

Try`d to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why?
Why they do me like that?

Uh, yea, yo
Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar?
Why Denzel have to be crooked before he took it?
Why they didn`t make the CL6 wit` a clutch?
And if you don`t smoke why the hell you reachin` for my dutch?
Why rap, `cuz I need air time?
Why be on the curb wit` a, “Why lie, I need a beer” sign?
Why all the young ni**az is dyin`?
`Cuz they moms at work, they pops is gone, they livin` wit` iron
Why they ain`t give us a cure for aids?

Why my diesel have fiends in the spot on the floor for days?
Why you screamin` like it`s slug, it`s only the hawk?
Why my buzz in L.A. ain`t like it is in New York?
Why you forcin` you to be hard?
Why ain`t you a thug by choice?
Why the whole world love my voice?
Why try to tell `em that it`s the flow son?
And you know why they made the new twenties
`Cuz I got all my old ones that`s why

All that I been givin`
Is this pain that I`ve been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that?

Try`d to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why?
Why they do me like that?