[Ice Cube]. Now is the time.... C'mon y'all. Stand tall live your life to the limit. Cause haterism seem like a fucking epidemic. And look at Ice Cube I ain't no gimmick. I'm straight from the hood I got to represent it. Now - every day I think about my color. And all the crazy shit we do to one another. I ain't your blood brother but I'm your cuz brother. Let's take it back to the love and how it was brother. If not we gon' pull these triggers. Show the world we deserve to be called niggaz. I make a fuck-up like Don Imus. bow on his knees and call me yo' highness. You can too you got the power to. Don't let this motherfuckin system devour you. I won't pretend or act like I'm knowin you. But check it out I understand what you goin through. [Chorus: sung from samples]. But remember brothers and sisters. You can still stand tall. Just be thankful.... For what you got. [Ice Cube]. I know what y'all motherfuckers thinking heh heh. Here comes another rapper with a song about hope. All you wanna hear is a song about dope. And how a nigga got mo' money than the Pope. But he'll never tell you when he drop the soap. No~! Ice Cube is here to drop you a note. Cause some of our folk used to hang from ropes. And some of our people used to hang from trees. Now the only thing hangin muh'fucker is DEEZ. So get your mind right and I'ma rhyme right. Fuck the limelight and a blind dyke. I'm the sunlight too bright to look. When it's all said and done I should write the book. You too cool for school too old to know?. Get your ass off the grassroots and let 'em grow. I understand it ain't no love lost. But little kids it ain't no Santa Claus. [Chorus]. [Ice Cube]. Yeah f'real. I was born in the mud but I came out clean. That's 'til the government tried to intervene. Tried to lock me up when I was only 19. Don't never ever ever let 'em kill your dream. I make shit raw that piss off the law. If you want some fake shit turn this off. If you want some realness I know you can feel this. Maybe we can heal this just like an illness. Black on black I got'cho back. People don't think that we know how to act. Just because our neighborhood is filled with crack. And the CIA won't take it back. Never on top always on the bottom. Never put your trust in Hillary Rodham. Cause I can tell you now it's gon' turn out rotten. Keep on pushin get 'em 'til we got 'em. [Chorus]. [Ice Cube]. Stand up f'real.... Raise your hand if you sick of this bullshit. Heh in the belly of the evil empire [fades]