Times ain't bad it's just about that time
 A nickel's enough to get sprayed for
 Because gems ain't the only rocks you get paid for
 Get laid, sure, check the corner
 For a buck you can do anything you want on her
 Next week same place no she's not
 She kicked the bucket from what you just got
 Man listen, it's hard enough just to survive
 Newborns hot up with dope, to stay alive
 Poor lady, she ditched her cause she couldn't feed her
 So where's her mother? Huh, she ain't no better either
 Say the hell with school that ain't cool you fool
 Learn the science of the other man's rule
 Books you forget, knowledge you forfeit
 Stay legit, just don't do it
 Go and pursue it, you gotta fight to
 Attain all the things you got a right to
 And when you get it good, but damn we
 got to boost up the family

 Boost up the family, I'm here to reach and teach
 Each and all who comprehend my speech
 What does a door mean to you and me?
 The door's locked and we don't have the key
 But we do, it's under the rug you think I'm bugged
 My concept's snug
 In the pocket, they tell me rock it
 I say sure fellas, long as I sell hell Jaz is the swellest
 Remember when they asked a man what's your program?
 He said different plan but same objective man
 Socialism, a cripplin disease
 Can't see the forest for the trees, people please
 Who wears the clothes our parents paid for
 Who sells the gold our people saved for
 The writing's on the wall you know who did this
 I see it too but I'm the wrong kinda witness
 Homeboys on the rock way up-state
 How're you livin he said? "I'm livin great"
 Havin a good time for doin a large crime
 Boost up the family in the name of my rhyme

 We'll tumble down for sure if we don't stop
 Chippin away at the mountaintop
 Chase and hunt me yeah those boys want me
 Ignorance is prison, now I'm free
 Throw up a peace sign shout it in a stadium
 At the Palladium speak in an auditorium
 We'll overcome, no? Well come and get some
 Feel the drums, cold get dumb
 Knowledge em off the face
 Yo proceed with the human race
 He's ya boos huh, you let im bass you
 This ain't his house, he's from another place too
 Livin life is triflin as a mans's toy
 Eve of destruction, you need a friend boy
 On the move the destroy
 The mind is the power, the money is the decoy
 For the causse I am fightin
 My hands sweat but the pen keeps writin
 Liberals, the deecptive weapon
 Told a man named Jackson to get to steppin
 Somebody said to say it loud we're black and we're proud
 The people he reused are lost in the crowd
 Rebel? Don't dare, our uncle's so fair
 Ya gettin paid but ya ain't goin nowhere
 I'm sayin what I see see what I'm sayin?
 Better start prayin; I ain't playin
 Can we survive? Tell me somethin can we?
 Who's to spruce, to juice, boost the family