Why - Album Version (Edited)

Is that real?

Yo, why is Jadakiss is hard as she gets?
Why is the industry designed to keep the artists in debt?
And why them dudes ain't riding if they part of your set?
And why they never get it poppin', but they party to death?
Yeah, and why they gonna give you life for a murder?
Turn around only give you eight months for a -?
It's going down
Why they selling people CD's for under a dime?
And if it's all love, daddy, why you come with your -?

Why my homies ain't get that cake?
Why is a brother up north better than Jordan?
That ain't get that break?
Why you don't stack instead of trying to be fly?
Why is ratting at an all-time high?
Why are you even alive? (Why?)
Why they kill Tupac and Chris?
Why, at the bar, you ain't take straight shots instead of poppin' Cris? (Oh, why?)

Why them bullets have to hit that door?
Why did Kobe had to hit that raw?
Why'd he kiss that raw?
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? (Oh, why?)
Tried to make it my way (why?)
But got sent on up the highway (uh)
Why? Oh, why? (Yeah, uh, yo)
Why they gotta do me like that?

Why do people push pounds and powder?
Why did - knock down the towers?
Why you around them cowards?
Why Aaliyah have to take that flight?
Why my homie 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 brothas get degrees in jail?
Why you gotta do 85 percent of your time?
And why do rappers lie 85 percent of they rhymes?
Why a brother 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 people 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 sh- but we sellin' the least?
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 on up the highway (why?)
Why? Oh, why? (Uh, yeah, yo)
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 -?
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 brothers are dying?
'Cause they moms at work, they pops is gone, they living with -

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 (speak on it)
Why my buzz in L.A. ain't like it is in New York?
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?
'Cause I got all the old ones, that's 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 get it again)
Tried to make it my way (why)
But got sent on up the highway (somebody, tell me)
Why? Oh, why?
They gotta do me like that?

Why?
Oh, why
Oh
Why, why?
Tell me why?
Why?