The Prognosis - Funky DL

Yo', my friend’s Sister told me she don’t wanna work for the white man

Not even if the possibility

Or a slight chance of improving her life was right there for taking

She would rather sit back and be vacant

Ain’t no mistaking that I’m trying to get my head round the statement

It’s complicated, see I understand that people need payment

And have been patient, trying to move towards their future but facing

discrimination

Even though they got they qualifications from education

I asked these young brothers who were chillin on my block

What they saw themselves becoming as a kid growing up

They replied saying they saw themselves as bank managers

But all that they were doing everyday was smoking cannabis

And eating fried chicken, leaving bones on my doorstep

And couldn’t see the point in even taking a small step to something greater

I tried to talk, I try to teach em', couldn’t reach em'

Now the sound of the police has got em' fighting for they freedom

You best believe it, I’m trying to get down to the reasons

I’m noticing a surge of Europeans in my neighbourhood

That’s when I really started to notice that every geographical place will get

its prognosis

The prognosis (x4)

Verse Two

I’ve heard black women tell me they ain’t dating no black men

Because it didn’t work with a handful way back when

Now each to his own, but I find it disheartening

And I heard your counter-argument about some brothers targeting

Women the same way, but exactly the same

I am disheartened by these juvenile games that people play

Now this really got me thinking bout' who I am in society

How do people view me when there is so much variety?

Everyday succumbing to someone stereotyping me

Color of my skin the only thing why they disliking me?

When I spend my money that’s when they forced to be nice to me

Taxi driver tells me he charging a different price to me

Because we black brothers and so he found me tolerable

I told him that ain’t ethical, conscientious or honourable

You gotta come better than that

He thought about what I was saying and conceded the fact

And I don’t wanna have to do him like that

But see the truth is the truth and karma got a way of coming right back

So from the stand up people to the ones that are bogus

Everybody gonna play they prognosis