BEEF

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas
Beef is when workin' niggas can't find jobs
City tryin' to find niggas to rob
Tryin' to find bigger guns, so they can finish the job
Beef is when the crack kids can't find moms
Cuz they in a pine box, or locked behind bars
Beef ain't the Summer Jam for Hot 97
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 comes with a long jail sentence
Handed down to you in a few short minutes
Beef is when your girl come through for a visit
Talkin' 'bout, "I'm pregnant by some other nigga..."
Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit
Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to get it
And all your little kids is doin' is gettin' bigger
You try not to raise 'em 'round these wild niggas
Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her
A manicured hand out like, "Pay me, nigga...
...or I'm tellin' ya wife,
Or startin' up some foul rumor that'll ruin ya life"
Beef is when a gangsta ain't doin' it right
And other gangstas then decided 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 not what Ja said to 50
Beef is Walt and Irv not bein' here with me...
When a soldier ends his life with his own gun
Beef is tryin' to figure out what to tell his son
Beef is oil prices and geo-politics
Beef is Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Some beef is big, and some beef is small
But what y'all call beef...is no beef at all
Beef is real life...happenin' every day
And it's realer than them songs that you dated K-Slay
This has been a Black Star P.S.A.
From Mos Def...Pretty Flaco...Black Dante
And the Black Star Embassy...B to tha K

-Mos Def "Beef"