Why? (feat. Anthony Hamilton)

A-ha It's that real Yo, why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets? Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt? And why them dudes ain't riding if they part of your set? And why they never get it popping, but they party to death? Yeah, and why they gon' give you life for a murder? Turn around, only give you eight months for a burner? It's going down Why they selling niggas CD's for under a dime? And if it's all love, daddy, why you come with your 9.? Why my niggas ain't get that cake? Why is a brother up north better than Jordan that ain't get that break? Why you ain't stacking instead of trying to be fly? Why is ratting at an all time high? Why are you even alive? Why they kill 2pac 'n Chris? (Why?) Why at the bar, you ain't take straight shots instead of popping Cris? Why them bullets have to hit that door? Why did Kobe have to hit that raw? Why he kiss that whore, why? (Good Lord, tell me why) All that I've been given Is this pain that I've been living They got me in the system Why they gotta do me like that? (Why?) Tried to make it my way But got sent up on the highway (uh) Why? Oh, why they gotta do me like that? (Yeah, uh) Why these niggas 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 nigga 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 letting niggas get degrees in jail? Why you gotta do 85 percent of your time? And why do niggas lie in 85 percent of they rhymes? Why a nigga 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 niggas can't get no jobs? Why they come up with the witness protection? Why they let the Terminator win the election? Come on, pay attention Why I sell in the stores what you could sell in the streets? Why I say the hottest shit but we sellin' the least? (And I need to know right now) Why? (Oh, why?) All that I've been given (why?) Is this pain that I've been living (somebody) They got me in the system (tell me right now, why) Why they gotta do me like that? Tried to make it my way But got sent up on the highway Why? Oh, why they gotta do me like that? 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 with a clutch? And if you don't smoke, why the hell you reaching for my dutch? Why rap? 'Cause I need air time Why be on the curb with a "Why lie? I need a beer" sign? Why all the young niggas is dying? 'Cause they moms at work, they pops is gone, they living with 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 screaming like it's a slug? It's only the hawk Why my buzz in L.A. ain't like it is in New York? (Jada go on and speak on it) Why they forcing 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? (Shawty don't know) 'Cause I got all the old ones, that's why (now, I wanna do, and ask 'em why) All that I've been given Is this pain that I've been living They got me in the system Why they gotta do me like that? (I got it again) Tried to make it my way (why) But got sent up on the highway Why? Oh, why they gotta do me like that? Why? Oh, why? Oh-oh-oh Why, oh, why? Why? Tell my why