[Jadakiss]
Aha!
It's dat real

Yo, why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets
Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in dept
And why them dudes ain't ridin' if there part of your set
And why they never get it poppin' but they party to death

Yea, and why they gon give you life for a murder
Turn around only give you eight months for a burner, it's goin down
Why they sellin' people CD's for under a dime
If it's all love daddy why you come wit your nine

Why my homeys ain't get that cake
Why is a brother up North better than Jordan
That ain't get that break

Why you ain't stackin' instead of tryin' to be fly
Why is rattin' at an all time high
Why are you even alive

Why they kill Tupac n' Chris
Why at the bar you ain't take straight shots instead of poppin Crist'
Why them bullets have to hit that door
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw
Why he kiss that whore
Why

[Chorus: Anthony Hamilton]
All that I been givin'
Is this thing that I've been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that
Try'd to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway (Uh)
Why, oh why (Aha!)
Why they do me like that (Yeah, uh)

[Jadakiss]
Why would people push pounds and powder
Why did bush knock down the towers
Why you around them cowards
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight

Why my homey D ain't pull out his Ferrari
Why he take that bike
Why they gotta open your package and read your mail
Why they stop lettin' brothers get degreez in jail

Why you gotta do eighty-five percent of your time
And why do rappers lie in eighty-five percent of they rhymes

Why a brother always want what he can't have
Why I can't come through in the pecan Jag
Why did crack have to hit so hard
Even though it's almost over

Why people can't get no jobs
Why they come up wit the witness protection
Why they let the terminator win the election
Come on, pay attention

Why sell in the stores what you can sell in the streets
Why I say the hottest sh... but we sellin' the least
Why

[Chorus: Anthony Hamilton]
All that I been givin'
Is this thing that I've been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that
Try'd to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why
Why they do me like that


[Jadakiss]
Uh, yea, yo
Why Halle have to let a white man pop her to get a Oscar
Why Denzel have to be crooked before he took it
Why they didn't make the CL6 wit a clutch

And if you don't smoke why the hell you reachin' for my dutch
Why rap, cause I need air time
Why be on the curb wit a why lie I need a beer sign
Why all the young brothers is dyin'
Cause they moms at work, they pops is gone, they livin' wit iron

Why they ain't give us a cure for aids
Why my diesel have fiends in the spot on the floor for days
Why you screamin' like it's slug, it's only the hawk
Why my buzz in L.A. ain't like it is in New York

Why you forcin' you to be hard
Why ain't you a thug by choice
Why the whole world love my voice
Why try to tell 'em that it's the flow son
And you know why they made the new twenties
Cause I got all my old ones
That's why

[Chorus: Anthony Hamilton]
All that I been givin'
Is this thing that I've been living
They got me in the system
Why they gotta do me like that
Try'd to make it my way
But got sent up on the highway
Why, oh why
Why they do me like that