David Hasselhoff: Boost up the family

Drugs, political thugs, nickel and dime crimesTimes ain't bad it's just about that timeA nickel's enough to get sprayed forBecause gems ain't the only rocks you get paid forGet laid, sure, check the cornerFor a buck you can do anything you want on herNext week same place no she's notShe kicked the bucket from what you just gotMan listen, it's hard enough just to surviveNewborns hot up with dope, to stay alivePoor lady, she ditched her cause she couldn't feed herSo where's her mother? Huh, she ain't no better eitherSay the hell with school that ain't cool you foolLearn the science of the other man's ruleBooks you forget, knowledge you forfeitStay legit, just don't do itGo and pursue it, you gotta fight toAttain all the things you got a right toAnd when you get it good, but damn wegot to boost up the familyBoost up the family, I'm here to reach and teachEach and all who comprehend my speechWhat does a door mean to you and me?The door's locked and we don't have the keyBut we do, it's under the rug you think I'm buggedMy concept's snugIn the pocket, they tell me rock itI say sure fellas, long as I sell hell Jaz is the swellestRemember when they asked a man what's your program?He said different plan but same objective manSocialism, a cripplin diseaseCan't see the forest for the trees, people pleaseWho wears the clothes our parents paid forWho sells the gold our people saved forThe writing's on the wall you know who did thisI see it too but I'm the wrong kinda witnessHomeboys on the rock way up-stateHow're you livin he said? "I'm livin great"Havin a good time for doin a large crimeBoost up the family in the name of my rhymeWe'll tumble down for sure if we don't stopChippin away at the mountaintopChase and hunt me yeah those boys want meIgnorance is prison, now I'm freeThrow up a peace sign shout it in a stadiumAt the Palladium speak in an auditoriumWe'll overcome, no? Well come and get someFeel the drums, cold get dumbKnowledge em off the faceYo proceed with the human raceHe's ya boos huh, you let im bass youThis ain't his house, he's from another place tooLivin life is triflin as a mans's toyEve of destruction, you need a friend boyOn the move the destroyThe mind is the power, the money is the decoyFor the causse I am fightinMy hands sweat but the pen keeps writinLiberals, the deecptive weaponTold a man named Jackson to get to steppinSomebody said to say it loud we're black and we're proudThe people he reused are lost in the crowdRebel? Don't dare, our uncle's so fairYa gettin paid but ya ain't goin nowhereI'm sayin what I see see what I'm sayin?Better start prayin; I ain't playinCan we survive? Tell me somethin can we?Who's to spruce, to juice, boost the family?