Product of the Environment Lyrics

Alright coming up now another request

This time from the boys down at Anna's Pizza Paradise

A new arrangement of a great oldie in rhythm and blues

In the heart of the city you was born and bred

You grew up smart or you wound up dead

Things moved fast, but you knew the scoop

And your savior was a rhyme and a beat and a rap group

A modern day production of the city street

You said I didn't have it that I couldn't compete

So the sleeper did sleep but the sleeper shoulda woke up

Now you're in my sight, the Buddha sees you smoke up

That's the element you carry your rhymes on

That style of rhyme won't let you live long

'Cause a strong song to you is what I sent

'Cause I'm a product, of the environment

There it is, black and white

There it is, black and white

On the streets of far Rockaway Queens

Seagram Boulevard, B-17

Redfern houses where no MC would ever go

Is where I did my very first show

Had the crowd had the rhymes going, I never fess

His reward, was almost a bullet in his chest

And on that stage, is where I first learned

Stick out my chest to be a kid and get burned

You're so foolish, but I think you knew this

That on the the microphone punk I can do this

And doing this, is what life meant

'Cause I'm a product, of the environment

There it is, black and white

There it is, black and white

Back in the days when kids were mack daddies

Striped Lee jeans, playboys and Caddies

Long Beach, the M.O.K. center

He almost caught a bad one when he tried to enter our way

Bang! Bum rush the back door

Then scatter, onto the dance floor

Me and my boys, skeezin' the cuties

Never had static, cuz everybody knew me

Local DJ's, tearin' up the wax

And out on the corner, some kid gets taxed

After the party, crack open a forty

Vicked it from the store yo the man never caught me

Went up to the arcade, cranked the bass

And then the five-oh chased us from the place

Hop on the railroad, play the conductor

Everywhere I went I always tucked

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'Cause we were just products, of the environment

There it is, black and white

There it is, black and white

I wanna tell you something that gets me kind of mad

It's about my dear old dad

He's tired, and worn, and works a nine to five

Clockin' thirty G's a year to survive

But I know kids who in a month or so

Make that money sellin' ya-yo

Pushin' a drug, I can't understand

Destroyin' a life with a buck in the hand

Play rotten slum chain, local street hero

But if you ask Serch, you're just a bunch of zeros

Too bad 'cause when you're older, you won't have a cent

'Cause you're a product, of the environment

There it is, black and white

There it is, black and white

You hear it in the strength of my voice and in my rhythm

Now you know, how I was livin'

It happened to me, like it happened to Serch

Prime Minister Pete Nice'll kick the verse

In Bed-Stuy with my boy, Kiwai Height

The K to A Kingston, Wednesday night

To the Empire, show slammin'

Open for Dana, crew flamin'

Mouth open wide, or listenin'

Dumb dope with a forty in my system

Unprotected but respected for my own self

'Cause of talent, no shade, or nothin' else

A time of tension, racially fenced in

I came off and all the brothers blessed him

I left more than a mark, I left a dent

'Cause I'm a product, of the environment

Serch, skin is just a color of the mind and the soul

And a brother ain't a brother if his heart is cold

You know what I'm sayin' fellas?

Word and I think we need a positive Kause in a much damaged society

Word up man nubians killin' nubians, brothers just don't understand

Word maybe it's some of that crime that's stoppin' the growin'

The drug pollution and all needs to calm down

Word man, cause that's what we need, we need Griff Productions

We need a K.M.D. man to uplift the race and bring

Kause in the beginnin' and a Posse called, 'Get Yours'

Yeah there it is, to all y'all bigots who want us to bend

We're just products of the environment, peace, hopefully

There it is, black and white

There it is, black and white