"This is probably the most challenging record

you have ever put on your turntable.."



[MC Serch]

The facts, the facts get fried like your eggs scrambled

truth until it falls off the ledge lays dead or vexed

Tennis feds(?) need the last price, gassed ego

He don't show or know about the last nights and days

of a brother who went for his

My land built on hatred and sent to kids

Ice Cube killed his own and it was square biz

So if I say fuck you to a jew, you know what time it is

Of my own kind but not of my own mind

Came to America but became blind

Chased from the four corners of the earth

But over here it's alright, at least your ass is white

So sit down and mingle with the devil over supper

The only difference between us and a brother is the color

Instead of hittin the last nail in the coffin try to pull it out

And find out what the hard but true is all about



[Chorus]

It's hard.. but it's true

The hard but the true

It's hard.. but it's true

The hard but the true

So hard.. but so true

The hard but the true

It's hard.. but it's true

The hard but the true



[MC Serch]

Hard, what?  Truth sometimes too hard to be true

So I'ma make it stick like glue

Too many times too many crimes get backed up

Case comes up, oops!  Switch all the facts up

Three kids rape a sister at St. John's

and become graduates, instead of cons

Instead of washin drawers or be somebody's whore

College wack buffed and polished and they kept the doors closed

Jail time (yeah?) Wasn't even fazin 'em

Probably one of the fathers gave the school a gymnasium

Korean kills a girl and claims insane, and gets a pardon?

Bring her honor to the court of Nickerson Garden

And get a lifetime sentence of the bent over

Tell a fool, tell a friend and then sent over

Hollow point slugs made of nothin but lead

The hard but true is takin you straight to the head



[Chorus]



[MC Serch]

Reggie McBride, yeah..

Asalaam alaikum to a Muslim

Shalom alaikum is the same to a Hebrew

Peace akeem, akeem peace to a Zulu

Tell me what's the difference why you riffin what's the point of view?

Universal greeting is the same

The game is three-sixty it don't matter what the slang

Gangs of thugs carry slugs use the mind as a glock 9

Wake the ones then shake the ones

then make the ones come into the daytime

And spark the mark labelled X

And knowledge the text

Use the wit not as a whip reload the clip then shoot from the hip

Cause yo!  This is some ol' next shit

One circle, one hurdle, one jump

One nation under the groove, and then over the hump

of racist dogs, that keep barkin in the street

Serch'll bring the hard but true to your feet, complete!



[Outro]

It's hard.. but it's true

The hard but the true

It's hard.. but yo, it's true

The hard but the true

It's hard.. but it's true

The hard but the true

So hard.. so true

The hard but the true



Yeah Wolf & Epic, cool

Ay you, ay you ay you, ay you ay you

Ay you, it's hard but it's true

Ay you, ay you ay you ay you

It's hard but it's true, you hebrew or you jew

Your christian, your muslim, your islam, your brother, your sister

It's hard but it's true.. peace