People Everyday

Album: 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... (1992)
Charted: 2 8
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  • Right about this time see we gon' get totally
    By one called Arrested Development
    Say, come up select it, easy

    See, I was resting at the park minding my own
    Business as I kick up the treble tone
    On my radio tape player box, right
    Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?
    Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating (I'm dating)
    Investigation, maybe she was demonstrating
    But nevertheless I was pleased (I was pleased)
    My day was going great and my soul was at ease
    Until a group of brothers started bugging out (bugging out)
    Drinking the forty ounce, going the nigga route (the nigga route)
    Disrespecting my black queen (black queen)
    Holding their crotches and being obscene (obscene)
    At first I ignored them 'cause, see, I know their type (I know their type)
    They got drunk and got guns (hey) and they wanna fight (they wanna fight)
    And they see a young couple having a time that's good (time that's good)
    And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
    So they came to test Speech 'cause of my hair-do
    And the loud bright colors that I wear (oh)
    I was a target 'cause I'm a fashion misfit (misfit)
    And the outfit that I'm wearing, brothers dissing it
    Well, I stay calm and pray the niggas leave me be
    But they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy (anatomy)
    Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me? (Drill me)
    'Cause if I start to hit this man he'll have to kill me (ah), see

    I am everyday people
    Yeah, yeah, hey
    You see, I am everyday people
    Yeah, yeah, ah

    I told the niggas, "please let us pass, friend" (let us pass, friend)
    I said, "please" 'cause I don't like killing Africans
    But he wouldn't stop, and I ain't Ice Cube
    But I had to take the brother out for being rude
    And like I said before, I was mad by then
    It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
    But that's the story, y'all, of a black man
    Acting like a nigga then get stomped by an African
    You see?

    I am everyday people
    Yeah, yeah, yeah
    You see, I am everyday people

    The moral of the story is
    You better look very hard at who you step into
    'Cause you might get killed, or shot, and it's not worth it
    Africans need to be loving each other, and unite Writer/s: Errol Osbourne, Ian Smith, Lloyd James, Noel Davey, Sylvester Stewart, Todd Thomas
    Publisher: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT MUSIC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Fine Brown Sugar from Kansas City, Moi love this song cause everyday you live you are living like a every day person
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