Purpose

If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights
If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights

I read and wrote so many letters sittin' in that cell
Anxiously anticipatin' my release from jail
All I had when I came home was some dreams and goals
Where we end up in life no one ever knows
All we can do is take the steps towards where we tryin' to go
And hopefully one day our hard work starts to show
Wanna be legit wit the click stay up off the ave
But it's hard to be legit when you out here on ya ass
Tryin' to get out Unc's basement back against another fence
Plus I'm black on Fed paper you know what I'm up against
In a system designed to keep blacks from reproducin'
That noose around our neck ain't get removed just got loosened

If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights
If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights

These cops killin' in the streets on a daily basis
Look at the deceased and it's all the same faces
Always the same story just in different places
And you wonder why so many felon in possession cases
Rather caught wit it than without on the backstreet
Ain't no time to react if it's on the backseat
If you ask me each one teach one
Livin' in this white man's world fool you better keep one
Just know ya enemy ain't got the same skin as me
Check ya branches on ya family tree might be kin to me
Do you know the change we can bring if we unite
You livin' in the dark like you're afraid of the light

If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights
If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights

I'm out here thuggin' I hate when my mama calls
We livin' by no rules Goonminati we outlaws
It's hard to change ways when I see the same thangs
Corrupted politicians wicked playin' the same games
For years they been hurtin' us black men be in danger from 18 to 31
Make it hard for us to buy em so we strap wit a dirty gun
Over the years I watched my peers in tears fightin' demons and swallowed by fear
When will we grow treat our sisters like queens instead of treatin' em like a ho
Love me as your brother instead of teatin' me like a foe
Though I don't intend service the moral of this sermon
Search deep and find ya purpose

If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights
If you knew better you'd do better you need to know your worth
Be a match that sparks the flame before you ridin' in that hearse
You was put here for a reason find your purpose in life
Comes a time when everybody has to turn their wrongs to rights