Why You Hate - Plies

Wanna ask the government: Why y’all hate us so much?

Wanna ask the other color: Why y’all hate us so much?

Wanna ask the law: Why y’all hate us so much?

Wanna ask the prosecuter: Why y’all hate us so much?

Is it our skin color, or is it the way we talk?

You hate us cause we us, or you hate us cause we folk?

Is it the way we live, or is it the way we walk?

We never had shit, so it can’t be nothin' we bought

This shit y’all took us through, prolly the reason we off

Our pride we still got it;

only thing we ain’t lost

Defending ourselves — shit — that was something we was taught

We’ve been through the roughest times, but all of it ain’t our fault

Wish I could add up the years in prison our peoples’ve caught

The government distributed, we ain’t really have a choice

Your peoples go to college, my peoples go to court

Your peoples born with money, my peoples born broke

Your peoples lived in mansions, my peoples hung from ropes

Your peoples had it made, all my peoples had was hope

Your peoples had help, all my peoples heard was «no»

My peoples thought about it, your peoples cut our throats

Respect we had for one another — shit — it wasn’t even close

We had to entertain, that was our only open door

If we wanted to make it, we had to rap, sing or try sports

We couldn’t afford a full ride — shit — my people poor

My people ain’t mad, your people hate us, though

But we’re the ones strugglin', so why y’all hate us for?

The police want us bad, the judge hate us more

The jury think we’re guilty ‘fore we come through the door

And y’all ‘ll take our money, but y’all won’t help us, though

And y’all biggest fear, is to see our people grow

But our biggest fear, is dyin' ‘fore we turn twenty-four

And every law that’s passed, ‘s designed to sink us more

And every time we go to jail, y’all get paid, though

But when we ask for money, y’all slam the door

They say our president’s black, but we can’t tell, though

We only got ourselves, now that’s what’s real, though

I know y’all hate our guts, that’s how y’all feel, though

But y’all ain’t got to like us, just let us live, though

And cause we' black, bruh, don’t mean we steal, though

And cause we' from the ghetto, don’t mean we dumb, bro

We' just as smart as y’all, but y’all don’t want the world to know

But all we want to know: Why y’all hate us so much?

Why y’all hate us so much?

Why y’all hate us so much?

All we wanna know: Why y’all hate us so much?

Why y’all hate us so much?

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