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Misunderstood (Don't Get It) Lyrics
[Nina Simone]
Baby, you understand me now
If sometimes you see that I'm mad
Don't you know no one alive can always be an angel
When everything goes wrong, you see some bad
[Chorus- Nina Simone]
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[Verse 1- Lil' Wayne]
Uh, misunderstood ain't gotta be explained
But you don't understand me so let me explain (heh heh)
Stood in the heat, the flames, the snow
Please slow down hurricane
The wind blow, my dreads swing
He had hair like wool, like Wayne (huh)
Dropping ashes in the bible
I shake em out and they fall on the rifle
Scary, hail Mary no tale fairy
All real very, extraordinary
Perry Mason facing, the barrel if he tattle
My god is my judge, no gown no gavel
Uh, I'm a rebel, time to battle
Now or never, I would never, in the ever
Fucking fantastic, fuck if you agree
I'm bright but I don't give a fuck if you see me
[Chorus- Nina Simone]
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[Verse 2- Lil' Wayne]
Uh, what's understood ain't gotta be explained
So for those who understand meet Tha Wayne
For eight and a half months I gave Ms. Cita pain
Now it's Young Money baby, keep the change
My momma say fuck 'em, and we the same
So, hello motherfucker you got some sheets to change
And ain't it funny how people change like Easter Sunday
You know church fit them outfit
Bright pink and green chest look house lit
Bright pinky rings but that ain't about this
What you 'bout bitch?
Excuse my French emotion in my passion
But I wear my heart on my sleeve like it's the new fashion
What are you asking, if I don't have the answer
It's probably on the web, like I'm a damn tarantula
But I know you don't understand
'Cause you thought Lil' Wayne is Weezy
But Weezy is Wayne
[Chorus- Nina Simone]
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
[Lil' Wayne Talking]
I watched T.V. the other day right
Got this white guy on there talkin' 'bout black guys
Talkin' about how young black guys are targeted
Targeted by who?
America
You see, one in every 100 Americans are locked up
One in every, 9 black Americans are locked up
And see what the white guy was trying to stress was that (inhales and exhales smoke)
The money that we spend on sending a motherfucker to jail
A young motherfucker to jail
Would be less to send, his or her young ass to college (ha)
See, and another thing the white guy was stressing was that
Our jails are populated with drug dealers
You know crack cocaine, yeah, stuff like that
Meanin' due to the laws we have on crack cocaine and regular cocaine
The police are only
I don't want to say only right, but shit
Only logic by riding around in the hood all day
And not in the suburbs, because
Crack cocaine is mostly found in the hood
And um, you know the other thing is mostly found
You know where I'm going
But why bring a motherfucker to jail
If it's not goin' stand up in court
Because this drug ain't that drug
You know level 3, level 4 drug, shit like that (hehe)
Mmm hmm, I guess it's all a misunderstanding, and um
I sit back and think well shit us young motherfuckers,
You know, that 1 in every 9
We probably only selling the crack cocaine just because we in the hood
And it's not like the suburbs
We don't have the things that you have
Why? I really don't want to know the answer, but uh
I guess we just misunderstood uh (haha ah) yeah
You know we don't have room in the jail
Now for the real motherfuckers, the real criminals, you know
Sex offenders, rapists, serial killers, shit like that
Don't get scared, don't get scared
I know you saw one them sex offenders papers
Don't trip, he live right on the end of your block, mhmm
Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you
Sex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out
And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got?
Yeah, well you know what (coughing "don't stop the track") that's the good weed
You know what? I have a fuckin' daughter
You understand me? And, why the fuck would you bring my neighbor
To jail just because the reason why he live next door to me
Ain't the reason why I live next door to him
Mean that, he didn't rap his way to my fuckin' neighborhood
He sold crack cocaine to get to my neighborhood
You move him out, bring him to jail for life
And then you move in a sex offender, hahaha
They givin' me a paper, haha
Is that a misunderstanding? 'Cause I don't understand it
'Nother thing, let me take my glasses off
'Cause I want to see the reaction on the faces when I say this
Uh, Mr. Al Sharpton, here's why I don't respec' you
And nobody like you, hm hm, see
You're the type that gets off on gettin' on other people, ha ha
That's not good, no homo
And rather unhuman I should say
I mean, given the fact that humanity, well, good humanity rather
To me, is helpin' one another, no matter your color or race
But this guy, and people like him
They'd rather speculate before they informate, if that's a word, hahah
You know, 'spect before check, anyway
Mean that, I much rather you talk to me first
And see if you can learn an opinion before you make one
Just my thought of good humanity, Mr. Sharpton haha
Hold on, I ain't finished with you man
I gotta pluck the ashes, mhmm, hold on, um
Mr. Sharpton, and anyone like you, you don't know me
So, if you're not gonna try to, then what you say
Or think about me, or whatever I do is totally Casper the friendly ghost to me
And, it doesn't make you a good person to
Criticize before you improvize
Doesn't necessarily make you a bad person neither but
The characteristics fall heavily into bad sway, hah hah
But since I am human, I am good and bad as well
But I try my hardest to stay good
And some of the things I do and say may be bad, or just not too good
But I do try
So with that said, I don't fault you, I mean, you're only human haha
Good or bad, but I also don't respec' you
And I don't care if that's good or bad, haha
You see you are no MLK, you are no Jesse Jackson
You a nobody, to me, you're just another Don King with a perm, hahaha
Just a little more political
And that just means you're a little unhuman than us humans
And now, let me be human by sayin' fuck Al Sharpton
And anyone like him, fuck if you understand me
I love being misunderstood
Why? 'Cause I live in the suburbs but I come from the hood
Bring the hook in
[Chorus- Nina Simone]
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Baby, you understand me now
If sometimes you see that I'm mad
Don't you know no one alive can always be an angel
When everything goes wrong, you see some bad
But I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Uh, misunderstood ain't gotta be explained
But you don't understand me so let me explain (heh heh)
Stood in the heat, the flames, the snow
Please slow down hurricane
The wind blow, my dreads swing
He had hair like wool, like Wayne (huh)
Dropping ashes in the bible
I shake em out and they fall on the rifle
Scary, hail Mary no tale fairy
All real very, extraordinary
Perry Mason facing, the barrel if he tattle
My god is my judge, no gown no gavel
Uh, I'm a rebel, time to battle
Now or never, I would never, in the ever
Fucking fantastic, fuck if you agree
I'm bright but I don't give a fuck if you see me
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Uh, what's understood ain't gotta be explained
So for those who understand meet Tha Wayne
For eight and a half months I gave Ms. Cita pain
Now it's Young Money baby, keep the change
My momma say fuck 'em, and we the same
So, hello motherfucker you got some sheets to change
And ain't it funny how people change like Easter Sunday
You know church fit them outfit
Bright pink and green chest look house lit
Bright pinky rings but that ain't about this
What you 'bout bitch?
Excuse my French emotion in my passion
But I wear my heart on my sleeve like it's the new fashion
What are you asking, if I don't have the answer
It's probably on the web, like I'm a damn tarantula
But I know you don't understand
'Cause you thought Lil' Wayne is Weezy
But Weezy is Wayne
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
I watched T.V. the other day right
Got this white guy on there talkin' 'bout black guys
Talkin' about how young black guys are targeted
Targeted by who?
America
You see, one in every 100 Americans are locked up
One in every, 9 black Americans are locked up
And see what the white guy was trying to stress was that (inhales and exhales smoke)
The money that we spend on sending a motherfucker to jail
A young motherfucker to jail
Would be less to send, his or her young ass to college (ha)
See, and another thing the white guy was stressing was that
Our jails are populated with drug dealers
You know crack cocaine, yeah, stuff like that
Meanin' due to the laws we have on crack cocaine and regular cocaine
The police are only
I don't want to say only right, but shit
Only logic by riding around in the hood all day
And not in the suburbs, because
Crack cocaine is mostly found in the hood
And um, you know the other thing is mostly found
You know where I'm going
But why bring a motherfucker to jail
If it's not goin' stand up in court
Because this drug ain't that drug
You know level 3, level 4 drug, shit like that (hehe)
Mmm hmm, I guess it's all a misunderstanding, and um
I sit back and think well shit us young motherfuckers,
You know, that 1 in every 9
We probably only selling the crack cocaine just because we in the hood
And it's not like the suburbs
We don't have the things that you have
Why? I really don't want to know the answer, but uh
I guess we just misunderstood uh (haha ah) yeah
You know we don't have room in the jail
Now for the real motherfuckers, the real criminals, you know
Sex offenders, rapists, serial killers, shit like that
Don't get scared, don't get scared
I know you saw one them sex offenders papers
Don't trip, he live right on the end of your block, mhmm
Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you
Sex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out
And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got?
Yeah, well you know what (coughing "don't stop the track") that's the good weed
You know what? I have a fuckin' daughter
You understand me? And, why the fuck would you bring my neighbor
To jail just because the reason why he live next door to me
Ain't the reason why I live next door to him
Mean that, he didn't rap his way to my fuckin' neighborhood
He sold crack cocaine to get to my neighborhood
You move him out, bring him to jail for life
And then you move in a sex offender, hahaha
They givin' me a paper, haha
Is that a misunderstanding? 'Cause I don't understand it
'Nother thing, let me take my glasses off
'Cause I want to see the reaction on the faces when I say this
Uh, Mr. Al Sharpton, here's why I don't respec' you
And nobody like you, hm hm, see
You're the type that gets off on gettin' on other people, ha ha
That's not good, no homo
And rather unhuman I should say
I mean, given the fact that humanity, well, good humanity rather
To me, is helpin' one another, no matter your color or race
But this guy, and people like him
They'd rather speculate before they informate, if that's a word, hahah
You know, 'spect before check, anyway
Mean that, I much rather you talk to me first
And see if you can learn an opinion before you make one
Just my thought of good humanity, Mr. Sharpton haha
Hold on, I ain't finished with you man
I gotta pluck the ashes, mhmm, hold on, um
Mr. Sharpton, and anyone like you, you don't know me
So, if you're not gonna try to, then what you say
Or think about me, or whatever I do is totally Casper the friendly ghost to me
And, it doesn't make you a good person to
Criticize before you improvize
Doesn't necessarily make you a bad person neither but
The characteristics fall heavily into bad sway, hah hah
But since I am human, I am good and bad as well
But I try my hardest to stay good
And some of the things I do and say may be bad, or just not too good
But I do try
So with that said, I don't fault you, I mean, you're only human haha
Good or bad, but I also don't respec' you
And I don't care if that's good or bad, haha
You see you are no MLK, you are no Jesse Jackson
You a nobody, to me, you're just another Don King with a perm, hahaha
Just a little more political
And that just means you're a little unhuman than us humans
And now, let me be human by sayin' fuck Al Sharpton
And anyone like him, fuck if you understand me
I love being misunderstood
Why? 'Cause I live in the suburbs but I come from the hood
Bring the hook in
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
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"I know you saw one them sex offenders papers Don't trip, he live right on the end of your block, mhmm Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you Sex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got?"
Wtf...
@criminology Translation: I know you saw one them sex offender papers=basically is a public list that pedophiles are registered to. Anyone can access this program though it don't give exact location of offender. You can check for updates if you want to know if a sex offender is very close to your home. This is to ensure safety to families so to be alert and cautious.
@criminology Translation: I know you saw one them sex offender papers=basically is a public list that pedophiles are registered to. Anyone can access this program though it don't give exact location of offender. You can check for updates if you want to know if a sex offender is very close to your home. This is to ensure safety to families so to be alert and cautious.
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2nd paragraph:
(Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you Sex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you...
(Yeah, that nigga live right down the street from you Sex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him out And what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got?")
=Lil Wayne rapped his way to a nice suburban neighborhood. As he said in the song. Then he speaks of another black guy that sold drugs/crack cocaine to live in the same neighborhood as lol Wayne. Apparently he gets busted and goes to prison so he's taking out the house and neighborhood obviously. I assume house got sold or confiscated. Later home of crack dealer is resold to a white guy that moves in....he is a sex offender that bought and consumed crack cocaine. Most likely sex offence was drug induced. Right down the road are more than possibly children that could now be at risk. So lil Wayne is advising to (check him out) look up his info on the sex offenders public records so you know who to beware of for your children's safety although you wouldn't have to check that paper in the first place if they focused on busting sex offenders. Sadly most offenders get away with it several times before being caught and most times are simply released while crack dealers remain in this revolving door scenario and are constantly locked up. Though sex offenders hurt people and children and normally escalate to more frequent attacks because they are addicted to this sickness. It becomes such a routine compared to how when we are hungry we will eat. Sex offenders normally give in to this resistance easily when they get the temptation. If cops patrolled the suburbs as much as the hood and stopped focussing on crack dealers they could catch the sex offenders. There is however no profit in busting sex offenders compared to the money guns houses drugs cars stolen goods and much more that they confiscate from drug dealers for profit. Al Sharpton and many more are so busy on their own agendas that this continues. It is common for the hoods to be neglected while the suburbs are priority over the hood. Al Sharpton likes talking up rioters and stirring up attention for his fame and power rather than help focus on eradicating racism which he normally is just a mouth piece...while he instigates violence instead of peace.
Lil Wayne is saying that the system is more focused on locking up black crack dealers than i assume white sex offenders that buy the crack from crack dealers and they live in your suburbs when they should be in prison instead of the crack dealers. Also his point is that most crack dealers don't choose that type of life but since the hood is where they grow up, and the hood is where crack is most commonly purchased they are basically just caught in the game of survival and the lifestyle of a crack dealer. Now if that same person grew up in the suburbs instead of the hood how would he even learn, know, or be exposed to that lifestyle. Basically he never stood a chance by being in the hood. Now move the cops from the hood to the suburb they may prevent a lot of sex offences and people of the hoods may get a chance to change.
This is one of my fave songs, I love tha part where he says "You thought lil wayne was weezy, but weezy is wayne" the last part where he talks is really deep, and prove that lil wayne isn't a regular rapper who just raps and neva really says anything important