[Verse 1: Young Noble]
Yeah, me and Deuce is like the truth in the light (The light)
Watch the booth ignite from shit that I write (Write)
I'm young and I'm black so they violate my rights (Damn!)
But Chuck and Flava Flav, they taught us all to fight (Woop!)
The powers that be, cowards under sheets (Sheets)
They proud when they see us get devoured in these streets (Damn)
The KKK's and the FBI's (F-B-I)
The C-I-A's, judges and D-A's (Fuck 'em!)
The system was designed to oppress my kind (Oppress my kind)
And arrest my kind (Arrest my kind) But still we rise (We rise)
From the bottom to the top of the food chain (Yeah!)
I still to this shit for Makaveli (Wooh!) Kadafi and Hussein (Yeah!)
Born Outlawz, voice of the underdogs (Yeah!)
Don't wanna see us unified they can't kill us all (They can't kill us all)
One for all and all for one youngin' your mind is a sponge (Sponge)
Powerful like the sun! C'mon!

[Chorus: Young Noble & Deuce Deuce]
We supposed to be kings and queens
The streets got us all dope dealers and fiends
We should want our land and start our own business
But we stuck in the trap or trapped in the system, listen!
We supposed to be kings and queens
The streets got us all dope dealers and fiends
We should want our land and start our own business
But we stuck in (Yo) the trap or trapped in the system (Yo) Listen
C'mon!
[Verse 2: Deuce Deuce]
I try to tell them it's just a phase, don't be afraid (Never)
We've come too far now don't go astray (Go astray)
Follow the path that was paved, how many died? (Many)
Put they life on the line for speakin' they mind
You ain't seein', you blind, you takin' action or you marchin?
Afraid of charges how many gonna empty the cartridge?
When it come down to it, influenced by money, guns and drugs
Sex and lies shorty mesmerized spreadin' her thighs
Open wide and let 'em in, this life a sin, who wins?
Evil grins stay temptin' it's the start of your endin'
Same one you trust to be friended is full of resentment
Loyalty is at an all time low, they takin' pics
Just for show, curtains closed, end of story
Never no mo' it's sentence stole before I was grown
I walk the streets alone, stones I'm shippin'
Not a single fuck was given just me and ambition
A man on a mission, listen just stand in position
May god bless the dead and have pity on the livin' (Pity on the livin')

[Chorus: Young Noble & Deuce Deuce]
We supposed to be kings and queens
The streets got us all dope dealers and fiends
We should want our land and start our own business
But we stuck in the trap or trapped in the system, listen!
We supposed to be kings and queens
The streets got us all dope dealers and fiends
We should want our land and start our own business
But we stuck in the trap or trapped in the system, listen
C'mon!