L.A Zoo

Most brothers take time
To prepare their beef
On a hot summer
Burners pop off
Like fish grease
And lose sleep
My life line’s a loose leaf
Unstable like a fighter
That box with loose teeth
Everybody’s got a God
But has God got you?
‘Cause in order
To pay tithes you’ve
Got to push rock too

The methamphetamines,
Narcotics,
The greenest of marijuanas
The money-driven niggas
The queeniest prima donnas
From jobs in the Senate
To workers in Tijuana
We trying to get a bite
In an ocean full of piranhas
Autobiographical stories
Become a drama
Then a producer buys it
And turns it into an Oscar

Find your Knowledge of mind
Equals knowledge of self
But your knowledge of crime
Is your knowledge for wealth
But ‘cause my knowledge of time
Is my knowledge for health
It means my knowledge is prime
So with knowledge I help

TV’s, DVD’s, video, radio stations
Internet connection
Mass information
No imagination
No patience
I’d rather lay on the grass
And watch the cloud formations

How many times in your life
Have you seen the sunrise?
Looked at yourself
Seen peace in your own eyes?
I look at the man in the mirror and I see
I’m not the man that I thought
That I’d be

But I live right now
‘Cause I live right now
I shine bright now
‘Cause I shine light now
To live right, ignite,
Your flight reach heights
Reach lives every time
I reach for the mic
Enrich lives every time I speak
Yo, it’s like Shakespeare in the park
Playing my part
Now I’m closing my eyes
And I see through the dark
Used to follow the pride
Now I lead with my heart

It’s the little things…

And the joy that it brings
That makes my soul sing
Never complex
Yo, I keep it simple
Never went to Church
Coming straight from my Temple

Everybody has got an oppressor
Blaming somebody else
While oppressing themselves

We're all oppressed
And we're all oppressors
So Mama Earth says,
“Love yourself like a child,”
'Cause that’s the best way
To bless Her

Everybody has got an oppressor
Blaming somebody else
While oppressing themselves