Wake Up

[Verse 1]
If you was sleeping on the last, better listen…
Gangster of Love, Tayo Dub in the kitchen
Cookin’ a masterpiece, who got the spatula?
Hammin’ it up, yo, smilin’ for the cameras
Nothing to prove, I’m a force to be reckoned
Vicious and seditious, roll with gangster bitches
Never compare me to another, I’m an orphan with my own style
Thuggin’ on these silly dime-a-dozens
I’m just a diamond in the rough & the rugged
Shining from the pressure, love my imperfections
All of the monеy in the world couldn’t buy me
And your manners arе appalling when you rhyming
Lady of Grace, like Mary Magdalene
Pussy makin’ miracles, all the rest is average
Repeat the mantra on the daily:
Two words: Fuck You
Two more? Pay me

[Chorus]
Fire in the sky
Life’s a bitch and then you die
You gon’ there let it slide
Or you gon’ get up, get up
Get up, get up
(Wake Up 4x
Get up 4x)
Repeat Chorus

[Verse 2]
Now that you Woke, pay attention
We public school kids learning real life lessons
While the rich get richer, the poor get poorer
They took our last name, put us the slave quarters
A menace with my paper and my pencil
Watchdog, I’m the one to blow the whistle
And I ain’t talkin Short, I’m talkin bout REAL issues
Like why Too Short still call women bitches
Black & brown men in the pen, in the millions
And why I can’t wear what I want
Mind ya business..
Them martyrs didn’t die for a mention
So I ain’t putting out no sex tape for attention
‘Cause Black and Brown people in
The South, they still lynchin’
A woman gettin’ raped every 25 seconds
That’s why I ain’t AFRAID of these thugs
‘Cause we live by the gun, so we die by the gun

[Repeat Chorus]

[2Pac audio clip speaking on gangs]