I've never had any uhh..  
 healthy degree of respect for  rappers  
 because they was rappin the wrong kind of thing..  
 or that old bad language  foul language  
 I never cared for that.. bad language  
 I don't care if you make ten million dollars a day  
 It ain't worth it  
 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world  
 and lose his soul? Nothing  
 Rap about that  
 [Danja Mowf]  
 Yo  just a thought but I was wondering  
 What if underground were to hit, would commercial be the shit?  
 A universal role-reversal -- imagine that  
 Where a cipher's too commercial and some corny rap is fat  
 Would Hammer then get props, and did Ras Kass sell out?  
 Your moms pumping Organized Konfusion through the house?  
 St. Ide's was a soda and they legalized the blunts  
 and everybody smoked em and the President had fronts  
 Would niggaz sportin afros and dreads and the braids  
 switch to jheri curls, and high-top fades?  
 And rappin bout the streets wasn't cool  
 The underground would pump non-violence, safe sex, stay in school  
 So who? Be real, could you choose? (nah)  
 When re-al-ity and commercial-ity both fuse?  
 But I've got news check it out we're on the way (what?)  
 to making this happen everyday, so I say  
 Question: Do you have to be from the hood  
 in order, to know, how to rap good?  
 Question: Do you have to pack a Tec-9  
 Serve jail time, to learn how to rhyme?  
 Question: Do you you have to be a gang banger  
 or drug slanger, to be a rap singer?  
 Question: Do you have to be an alcoholic  
 or a drug fiend, to make green on the rap scene?  
 Check it out, I was chillin in my crib  
 With my hand on the dial, bout to watch a video for a while  
 Freestyle rules, yes indeed  
 The song's about hustlers, smokin mad weed  
 And how many gats you can tote in your coat  
 And how quick you pull it, and discharge the bullet  
 Are real O.G.'s, the real MC's?  
 A brother out the pen with the pen writin sin  
 Can you tell me then -- if you knows why the do's always close  
 when I shows with my demos, suppose it's the clothes (nah)  
 Shoulda choose those Timbo's  
 or talked about some hoes in my flows (that's how it goes)  
 Yo it's cool if you live that  
 If I can't relate, are my rhymes less fat?  
 Cause I'm not a hustler, a gangster, a player or a G  
 I'm just an MC bein me, so I ask  
 Question: Do you have to be from the hood  
 in order, to know, how to rap good?  
 Question: Do you have to pack a Tec-9  
 Serve jail time, to learn how to rhyme?  
 Question: Do you you have to be a gang banger  
 or drug slanger, to be a rap singer?  
 Question: Do you have to be an alcoholic  
 or a drug fiend, to make green on the rap scene?  
 I don't wanna sell my soul to go gold  
 or pack a gat to umm, go plat-i-numm  
 If my pockets fat then umm, let it be from how I come  
 A smart intellectu-al, poet of the streets  
 Recitin over beats, representin with the pen  
 I don't pack nines, but known to carry tens  
 in fingers, ten funk bringers, they known to bring  
 funk to a punk like a trunk full of skunk, PEE-EWW  
 I see you, peek-a-boo, who  
 got a weaker crew, here's a technique or two  
 Pay-Per-View nigga, for the true niggaz, not the ones  
 pullin triggers but the ones whose the father figures  
 WHOA, that's a radical idea, imagine that  
 But who would wanna hear  
 somethin in they ear positive  
 Instead of somethin glorifyin just how triflin they live, so..  
 Question: Do you have to be from the hood  
 in order, to know, how to rap good?  
 Question: Do you have to pack a Tec-9  
 Serve jail time, to learn how to rhyme?  
 Question: Do you you have to be a gang banger  
 or drug slanger, to be a rap singer?  
 Question: Do you have to be an alcoholic  
 or a drug fiend, to make green on the rap scene