Yeah, Pete Philly and Perquisite

The mindstate venture

This music aint for everybody

This music's for you!

Look out, they'll take your sh*

Ready to break your sh*

Take to spend more and get some sh*

Move over, another hostile takeover

As the world turns, the world turns over

'F* y'all, me first!' has become the motto

Whether you're white, black, Hispanic or mulatto

And it's only because we follow our leaders

They be hollow and won't respect us either

It's realy hard to swallow

Though bet you don't hear me though

Probably even fearing so

You'd do anything to go and buy that new stereo

And ever since the currency has batled all the courtesy of live and let live or live and let be

We've become disconnected, disrespected

And it's affected our whole state of being now

Take a wrong turn and you'll get shot

Like we ignorant and forgot that life is all we got, man!

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like a brother or a martyr

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like our mother and our father

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

Every once in a while

I look out of my window and go off to a place that my old folks have showed

And I ain't never been there before

But they told me enough about it for me not to doubt it

Go back to reality, become a casualty of the ratrace

Everything is fastpaced

And while the cats chase

The mice they be running around

And the cats they be hunting them down

Gunning them down by law if they find you the enemy

And if they do they'll fuck you up relentlessly

Endlessly, the evil goes on but every trend's gotta end so I remain strong and hopeful

Even when they try to keep me in a chokehold, I know my hope grows

It's time for an intermission from all of this greed

Of all these corporations taking way more than they need!

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like a brother or a martyr

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like our mother and our father

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like a brother or a martyr

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

Respect, we check, we connect

We respect eachother like our mother and our father

If there's no respect, then why even bother?

At the end of the day it's all about what kind of world you wanna live in!

What kind of mindstate you wanna be in!

See past the bullshh and get into it!

Respect, connect, let's build!