why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?
Why is the industry designed
to keep the artist in debt?
riding if they part of your set?
And why they never get it popping
Yea, and why they gonna give
Turn around only give you eight months
for a burner? It's going down
And if it's all love, daddy,
why you come with your 9?
Why my niggas ain't get that cake?
Why is a brother up north
That ain't get that break?
instead of trying to be fly?
Why is ratting at an all time high?
Why they kill 2pac n'Chris?
Why, at the bar, you ain't take straight
shots instead of poppin Cris?
Why them bullets have to hit that door?
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw?
Why'd he kiss that whore?
Why do niggas push pounds
Why did Bush knock down the towers?
Why you around them cowards?
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight?
Why my nigga D ain't pull out his Ferrari
package and read your mail?
Why they stop letting niggas
Why you gotta do 85% of your time?
Why did crack have to hit so hard?
Even though it's almost over
Why niggas can't get no jobs?
Why they let the Terminator
Why I sell in the stores what you
could sell in the streets?
Why I say the hottest shit but
Why Halle have to let a white man
Why Denzel have to be crooked
And if you don't smoke why the hell
you reaching for my dutch?!
Why rap? Cause I need air time
Why be on the curb with a "Why
lie? I need a beer" sign?
Why all the young niggas is dying?
Cause they moms at work, they pops is gone,
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 screaming like it's a slug?
Why my buzz in L.A. Ain't
Why they forcing 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
And you know why they made
Cause I got all the old ones