Both Worlds (feat. 2Pac)

I'm extremely angry, confused You know, uh A lot of the times when I sat up in court I couldn't defend myself You know what I'm saying? Like, the things they were saying about me Were beyond my comprehension Or, the things that I could say Weren't going to help my case But because, I mean, I was It's like being exile, you know From society And that's how I feel And this whole anger comes from I'm tired of waiting for my past to get to society All I ever wanted to do was make Me and everybody around me feel more comfortable About where we were, you know what I'm saying? About the places that we stay Where we, this is our home base Let's build it up Let's be happy about where we come from You know what I'm saying? Instead of trying to assimilate and get a pass key To where they at, you know what I'm saying? Not to say that everything needs to be seperate But, we gotta find pride in ourselves You know what I'm saying? And once you get the pride, like Damn near two seconds after the pride comes anger From being held like that for so long And to be made to go through those changes You get mad, you know what I'm saying? I believe as soon as any black man Receives his first three checks, he starts getting mad 'Cause it's not about the necessity of having to have a job And having to pay and having to do that You don't care no more about the smiles And you know, "yes, massa" Because you done got paid You know what I'm saying? And now it's like you save money You wanna help other people You see how far it is, how far you have to go To help anybody in your neighbourhood It's set up for me when I get paid for me To exit the ghetto You know what I'm saying? The only reasons I've had these problems Is 'cause I haven't left yet And these problems don't come from a white man It comes from just society, the problems that we have I can see that, you know what I'm saying? The one thing we do have in common, as black people Is we share that poverty So the thugs side is more closer to the poverty Than me, being rich You know, how can I come to any community centre You know what I'm saying? Sporting a Rolex presidential All these diamonds and be like "Look, we, you know what I'm saying, Gotta gotta." But now, when I say we They know what I mean I'm not saying like, I live in this neighbourhood But I'm a thug, and they thugs They can relate, I don't even have to say that You know what I'm saying? When I come out, I don't have to say "I'm real" They already know what, you know what I'm saying? From me, from me being me From not pushing the thugness But I know from the business that everybody In this business is always whispering in your ear About what you can't say What you can't do What you can't wear And this world, and in this world there's two worlds A white world and a black world All I did was stand in the middle, you know what I'm saying? And say "I'm living in both worlds" I can go in the streets and survive And I can go out here and do my business out here