Beef

[Verse]

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas

Beef is when the working folks can't find jobs

So they trying to find niggas to rob

Trying to find bigger guns so they can finish the job

Beef is when the crack babies can't find moms

Cause they in a pine box, or locked behind bars

Beef ain't the summer jam for Hot 9-7

Beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic

Beef don't come with a radio edit

Beef is when the judge is callin' you defendant

Beef: It come with a long jail sentence

Handed down to you in a few short minutes

Beef is when your girl come through for a visit

To tell you that she pregnant, by some other nigga

Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit

Need a loan for your home but you're too broke to get it

And all your little kids is doing is getting bigger

You're trying not to raise 'em around these wild niggas

Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her

A manicure handout like, "Pay me nigga!"

Or I'm telling your wife

Or starting up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life

Beef is when a gangsta ain't doing it right

And other gangstas is deciding what to do with his life

Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic

Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight

Beef is what Ja said to 50

But beef is all my homies not being here with me

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun

Beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son

Beef is oil prices and geopolitics

Beef is Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Some beef is big and some beef is small

But what ya'll call beef is not beef at all

Beef is real life happening every day

And it's realer than them songs you gave to Kayslay

This has been a real niggas P.S.A

From Mos Def pretty flaco

Black Dante

And the Black Star Embassy B to the K!