So what u wanna be

Say dis ah d usual looking for the top

While the other youths dem looking for the trap

So who u gonna be

Say dis ah d usual always on the block

Tell me who gone save us if u give it up

Yh we ah survive through the struggle

All muh brudda know how fi hustle

So as the nite time come

Watch fi the leach and the thief's with the guns

Keep yuh head up

No we grow rough

Skin to tough

Nah group up

With duty duppy enemies

Everyday ah so me live

Tell me who got remedies

Take a couple sedatives

Float off straight into the simulation

Question nothing dat ah jah creation

Me blaze one before me meditate

And lift off like me levitate

Cops and robbers always deh deh pon the run

Find him body nah no name dem call him John

Every ghetto youth affi have ah bloody plan

Or take in in ur education

Overstand me?

So what u wanna be

Say dis ah d usual looking for the top

While the other youths dem looking for the trap

So who u gonna be

Say dis ah d usual always on the block

Tell me who gone save us if u give it up

Roots dem deya

Salute me d mayor

Bow yuh head

Likkle youth say a prayer

Wanna be a baller but dem nah no player

Listen wah me say

Some ah dem youths gone keep ah k

Wait by the wayside

Think way yuh wah be

Dem ah say gang gang

Scared of the army

Blaze up marry fam

Only that calm me

Naffi scared of the truth words couldnt harm me

Blam it inna face naffi care about the race?

Thought him was a gangster till then catch him doin the race

So what u wanna be

Say dis ah d usual looking for the top

While the other youths dem looking for the trap

So who u gonna be

Say dis ah d usual always on the block

Tell me who gone save us if u give it up

So what u wanna be

Say dis ah d usual looking for the top

While the other youths dem looking for the trap

So who u gonna be

Say dis ah d usual always on the block

Tell me who gone save us if u give it up