It's straight up madness everywhere I look

Used to be a straight a student, now he's a crook

Robbin people just to smoke or shoot up

Used to have a crew cut, now he's a pooh-put

Dropped out of school and he joins the neighborhood gang

Hangin on the streets sellin caine

To his own people

Now when I say people I mean color

You a stupid m____f...

I'm tryin to stress the fact that you're dumb

Get yourself presentable, son, and just come

Together, you better, cause pretty soon it's gonna be too late

A message from King Tee The Great

[Body & Soul]

Sisters, since we are the mothers of this earth

It's time we start being good mothers from the birth

Of our children, no time for sleepin

Teach em to fight and win for the right reason

It's your time, it's your life, live it

Proud to be black, young and gifted

Lifted by the knowledge and takin the right route

Gang violence needs to be wiped out

A-l-m-i-g-h-ty C and E-z-i-r-e

We see the f-u-t-u-r-e

Should be a positive thang

Body & Soul and you, we're in the same gang

[Def Jef]

One and the same

Everyone came in the same chains

Caught with the same aim

Brain games and names changed

To protect the innocent by-stander

Lies, slander and the master-planner

Destroy the black male

Crack jail and semi-automatic

For static if the crack fails

So since we all talk the same slang

Stop killin, my brother, cause we're all from the same gang

[Michel'le]

Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?

Make the change cause we're all in the same gang

[Tone-Loc]

Now as a youth I used to get my bang on

And on the ave get my part-time slang on

Upon a time for me was no joke though

They knew I was crazy, so they labelled me Loco

Khakis creased, golf hat, feelin sporty

Low ridin and tossin up a forty

Thinkin in my mind that no one could handle us

The downest brothers ever touched Los Angeles

I found life was much more suitable

Cause I'm the brother that makes black so beautiful

I ain't slippin or down with a head trip

I'm talkin to all the Bloods and all the Crips

Throw down your rag and get on the right track, man

It's time to fight, unite and be a black man

Tone-Loc is on a positive change

Cause remember, we're all in the same gang

[Above The Law]

Bein the pimps that we are

We're here to speak on a situation that has gone too far

Here at home in the ghettos of LA

Where a young black brother's not promised to see the next day

Cause we used to clock on the streets before we made beats

But fools just lay and prey on the weak

It don't depend on the color of a rag

Cause if you got what they want you know they gonna take what you have

Cause violence don't only revolve from drugs and thugs

And gangs that bang

Most times it's a political thang

Yeah, a couple of spots'll get popped

And if the government wanted to freeze it it could all get stopped

But they don't because they want it like that

Because the system been set up to hold us back

Yeah, Above The Law means that we can do whatever

So why don't we stick together?

(You got it)

[Ice-T]

Ice-T rippin the microphone the way I do

Listen close, my brothers, cause I'm talkin to you

The problem is we got a suicidal lifestyle

Cause 90 percent of us are livin foul and wild

I say job, you say ([Hen-G:] bad joke

I rather jack another brother, watch the gun smoke)

Livin in the fast lane flippin like you're insane

You won't stop until your blood runs down the street drain

I got an idea, give me a minute

And if it makes sense, then get with it

What if we could take our enemies, feed em poison

Undereducate their girls and boys and

Split em up, make em fight one another

Better yet, make em kill for a color

All my brothers need to know one thing

No matter what you think, we're all in the same gang

[Michel'le]

Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?

Stop the fighting

(Make the change)

Because we're all in the same gang

[Dr. Dre & MC Ren]

Yo, we're not here to preach because we're not ministers

We're tellin like it is cause Ren and Dre is like sinister

Reality speaks for itself when it's spoken

A basehead cluck can't blame nobody for smokin

Yo, bullets flyin, mothers cryin, brothers dyin

Lyin in the streets, that's why we're tryin

To stop it from fallin apart and goin to waste

And keepin a smile off a white face

N.W.A never preachin, just teachin

The knowledge of the streets to each and

All that don't understand, that's why we came

To let you know that we're all in the same gang

[JJ Fad]

The J double, F, the a, the d, that is

And if you want the solution to the quiz

What's black in black, yo, and kills another?

An ignorant sucker that isn't labelled as a brother

But another

So now it's time we evolve

And get together and solve it

Cause the world is revolvin

Around a terrible situation

One will kill another for a reputation

So it's time we stop and realize that we're all the same

Yo Dre, tell em (We're all in the same gang)

[Young MC]

Brothers killin other brothers

I thought the idea was to love one another?

Open up the paper to one more death

If y'all keep this up then there'll be no one left

I try my best to set an example

Not just a bragger to boast but to inform

Cause we're livin in the calm before the storm

You see, I believe that the children are the future

But what's it all about if in the future they shoot ya?

We're all human beings, if we're cut we'll bleed

And I want to see all young people succeed

Do 9 to 5, not 5 to 10

Just go to work and not the state pen

Cause you live better when you're out there free

And that's comin straight to ya from the Young MC

[Digital Underground]

I'm in a rage

Oh yeah? Yo, why is that g?

Other races, they say we act like rats in a cage

I tried to argue, but check it, every night in the news

We prove them suckers right and I got the blues

America...

Get busy, Humpy

The red, the white, the blue and

The blue and the red

For Clips and Bloods

The white for who's got you doin

Time bustin caps on one another

The Underground's down for peace among brothers

Kill a black man?

What?

Yo, what are you r_____ed?

Tell em, Hump

Yo, do you work for the Klan?

Do what you like

Unless you like g_______in

Let's see how many brothers leave us hangin

[Oaktown's 3.4.7.]

The gang that should hang is the one that contains

The sisters and the brothers who are all in the same frame of mind

Now listen, get loose, it's unity time

Yeah, yeah

Peace is a presence that we all need

The future's in our hands, in word and deed

I'm Terrible T and I'm Sweet LD

We're 3.5.7. totally

[MC Hammer]

Kickin on the ave 'bout a quarter to 9

All the homies gettin blind in an eight ball line

Now on this tip they started runnin at the lip

Jumped in their deuce and took a little trip

Hit the block about 12 on the tick

The windows went down and the nines went click

People started yellin, bodies started bailin

Bullets cold flyin sendin some to hell and

It's gotta stop, we don't need all the violence

Peace in the hood and a moment of silence

We got together not for ego or fame

We got involved cause we're all in the same gang

[Eazy-E]

Last but not least, yo, Eazy's no sell-out

And if you can't hang in the streets, then get the hell out

I'm not tryin to tell ya what to do

You have your own freedom of choice who to listen to

You knew good from bad, fair from foul, right from wrong

Now your mother's singing that sad song

(My baby ain't never hurt nobody!)

But he still got smoked at Bébé's party

But you're not the first or the last

You're nothin but a short story from the past

You're dead now, not number one but a zero

Take notes from Eazy-E, the violent hero

[Michel'le]

Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?

Don't you know we've got to put our heads together?

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