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**lf**[Intro: Speech]**lf**Hey, alright, hey, alright**lf**Yo this is headliner from the arrested development**lf**And right now you have missed out our celebration**lf**Celebration of life death the destroying of our ancestors**lf**Let me hear you say wow, wow**lf**Say yay yay**lf**Say wow wow yay yay wow yay wow yay...**lf**Wow wow say yay say wow wow yay yay**lf**Wow wow yay yay wow yay wow yay...**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**I am everyday people**lf**You see, I am everyday people**lf****lf**[Verse 1: Speech]**lf**See I was resting at the park minding my own**lf**Business as I kick up the treble tone**lf**On my radio tape player box, right**lf**Just loud enough so folks could hear it''s hype, see?**lf**Outta nowhere comes the woman I''m dating**lf**Investigation maybe she was demonstrating**lf**But nevertheless I was pleased**lf**My day was going great and my soul was at ease**lf**Until a group of brothers started bugging out**lf**Drinking the 40 oz, going the nigga route**lf**Disrespecting my black queen**lf**Holding their crotches and being obscene**lf**At first I ignored them ''cause see I know their type**lf**They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight**lf**And they see a young couple having a time that''s good**lf**And their egos wanna test a brother''s manhood**lf**So they came to test Speech ''cause of my hair-do**lf**And the loud bright colors that I wear [Boo !]**lf**I was a target ''cause I''m a fashion misfit**lf**And the outfit that I''m wearing brothers dissing it**lf**Well I stay calm and pray the niggas leave me be**lf**But they''re squeezing parts of my date''s anatomy**lf**Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me?**lf**''Cause if I start to hit this man he''ll have to kill me**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**I am everyday people**lf**I am everyday people**lf****lf**[Verse 2: Speech]**lf**I told the niggas please let us pass, friend**lf**I said please ''cause I don''t like killing Africans**lf**But he wouldn''t stop and I ain''t Ice Cube**lf**But I had to take the brother out for being rude**lf**And like I said before I was mad by then**lf**It took three or four cops to pull me off of him**lf**But that''s the story y''all of a black man**lf**Acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African**lf****lf**[Chorus]**lf**I am everyday people**lf**I am everyday people**lf****lf**[Outro]**lf**The moral of the story is you better look very hard at who you''re stepping to, ''cause you might get killed or shot and it''s not worth it**lf**Hey, you know it, you know it, you know it, you know it, hit it!**lf**Africans need to be loving each other and unite