We Don't Care - Kanye West
For all my niggaz
that drug dealin' just to get by
Stack ya money till it gets sky high
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25
Jokes on you we still alive
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say
If this is your first time hearin' this
You are about to experience somethin' so cold
We never had nothin' handed
took nothin' for granted
Took nothin' from no man, man, I'm my own man
But as a shorty I looked up to the dope man
Only a dope man
I knew that wasn't a coke man
Flickin' starter coats man, man, you know man
We don't care what people say
This is for my niggaz outside all winter
'Cuz this summer
they ain't finna to say next summer, I'm finna
Sittin' in the hood like community colleges
This dope money here is Lil' Trey's scholarship
'Cause ain't no to tuition for havin' no ambition
And ain't no loans for sittin' your ass at home
We forced to sell crack rap and get a job
You gotta do somethin' man your ass is grown
Say, drug dealin' just to get by
Sing, stack ya money till it gets sky high
kids sing, kids sing
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25
Jokes on you we still alive
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say
The second verse is for my dogs workin' 9 to 5
That still hustle, a nigga can't shine off 6.55
And everybody sellin' make-up, Jacobs
And bootleg tapes just to get they cake up
We put shit on layaway then come back
We claim other people kids on our income tax
We take that money cop work
than push packs to get paid
And we don't care what people say
My momma say she wanna move south
Scratchin' lottery tickets, eyes on a new house
Around the same time
Doe ran up in dudes house, couldn't get a job
So since he couldn't get work
he figured he'd take work
The drug game polemic, it's hard to get weight
Niggaz money is homo, it's hard to get straight
We gon' keep bakin' to the day we get cake
And we don't care what people say
My niggaz, drug dealin' just to get by
Sing, stack ya money till it gets sky high
kids sing, kids sing
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25
But the jokes on you we still alive
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say
You know the kids gonna act a fool
When you stop the programs for after-school
And they DCFS, some of em dyslexic
They favorite 50-Cent song "12 Questions"
We scream: "rocks, blow, weed, park"
See: now we smart
We ain't retards, the way teachers thought
Hold up, hold fast. We make more cash
Now tell my momma I belong in that slow class
Sad enough we on welfare
They trying to put me on the school bus
with the space for the wheelchair
I'm trying to get the car with the chromie wheels here
They trying to cut our lights out like we don't live here
Look what was handed us, fathers abandoned us
When we get them hammers, go on, call the ambulance
Sometimes I feel no one in this world understands us
But "we don't care what people say"
drug dealin' just to get by
Sing, stack ya money till it gets sky high
kids sing, kids sing
We wasn't supposed to make it past 25
But the jokes on you we still alive
Throw your hands up in the sky
And say we don't care what people say
