WHY?

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

Why I gotta change to be next up?
And why we let the nation elect Trump?
And why cause I'm black do
I gotta try two times harder than y'all just catch up?
Why I feel that they still don't respect us?
Don't accept us or protect, but arrest us
Why I feel that the world so messed up?
Why the system I live in oppress us?
Why these girls on the 'gram wear less clothes?
Why is rap now all about the best hooks?
Why I'm always on the internet though?
Why I read Facebook more than textbooks?
Why did Ricky have to talk to the store?
Why Caine have to walk out that door?
Why Q, Steel, and Raheem never seem
To see that there was something wrong with Bishop before?
Why Pookie go back to the pipe?
Why Mitch ain't catch Uncle Ice?
Why Floyd Mayweather get
To stack up over two hundred thou' racks when he fight?
Why I gotta pay excise taxes?
Why I feel like I don't like rappers?
Why I feel like I don't like classes?
Why it cost so much for a bachelor's?
Why I can't get through to the masses?
Why they don't know where Springfield Mass is?
Why are weak MCs getting passes?
Why is everyone a thug and a savage?
Why is good nutrition expensive?
Why is mass media so convincing?
Why is 'black lives matter' offensive?
Why work forty years for a pension?
Why people ask why I'm not signed?
Why wouldn't I wanna be independent?
Why try and make a livin' off rhymes?
Why care for a hater's opinion?
Why I sweat when I get pulled over?
Why am I a threat when I rock pullovers?
And why can't I buy wine when I'm 18
But I gotta register to be a solder?
Why I feel like I hate gettin' older?
Why I feel all this weight on my shoulder?
Why brag when you fake that life?
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight?
Why Trayvon Martin couldn't have started
Walking down a whole nother way that night?
Why I stress but I say "I'm aight"?
Why is everyone rapping like this?
Why do millions of rappers exist?
Why reality shows ain't so real?
Why MJ take those pills?
Why are boys in the 'field getting killed?
Why it getting so real in the 'field?
Why's it harder for real MCs?
Why I feel like I still can't breathe?

Yeah, I just gotta know, I just gotta know, yeah

Why I can't get through to the masses?
Why they don't know where Springfield Mass is?

I just gotta know, I just gotta know

Why are weak MCs getting passes?
Why is everyone a thug and a savage?

I just gotta know, I just gotta know

Why brag when you ain't that nice?
Why brag when you fake that life?

I just gotta know, I just gotta know
Why I can't get through to the masses?
I just gotta know, yeah

Why I can't get through to the masses?
Why they don't know where Springfield Mass is?

I just gotta know, yeah