[Intro]
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!
[Verse: Ahmad Jones]
Out my cage / I was trapped / just escaped so I'm strapped / with heat / this ain't make believe rap / this that real cause I'm real'a / raised in the thick of this wilderness makin' y'all sick cause I'm ill' a / often in tears cause I feel I've been slept on for years but I'm still re-/ spected by peers elite lyri-cists / today hip hop's an illusion like smoke with some mirrors / label tripped so we shook like a tambourine / called us odds / and they don't like gam-b-ling / let us go must be smokin' a gang of dank / this gon' blow we don't care 'bout who thank it ain't / offered crumbs said ''Fool, we not after that'' / y'all gon' pay us or give up that master dat / Think we slaves for these scraps? / nah, we get paid for these tracks / this ain't that make believe rap / at shows I kill it like a can of Raid / cause I don't flow I explode like a hand grenade / just doin' what true artists used to do / that's why I get love on more Alleys than Lucy Lu / fools upset at us mad cause' we still afloat / Interscope attempted but can't kill us though / told 'em no/ we ain't Limp Bizqit we got soul / on a mission with intentions to heal the globe / gon' stay in-de-p-e-n-d-e-n-t's / think we prostitutes and they some pi-m-p's / we ain't signing nothing 'less we seeing cheese / still I won't fake for no paper cause' we M.C/'s / I ain't scared of no war cause' we warriors / that fight the power like Neo and Morpheus / cut y'all out it just leaves a lot more for us / blowing up B-I-G like we Notorious!
[Bridge: Tena Jones]
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen / nobody knows my sorrow / nobody knows the trouble I've seen / nobody sees tomorrow
[Outro]
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!
Don't hate cause it's dangerous, don't hate cause it's dangerous!