Four Quarters

Let me ask you a question

What color is this?

It's green

It's green

You're black

I'm white

And this is green

When making a business decision the only color that matters is green

This is a journal entry and hip-hop blog

Played over airwaves, seen over by God

A relevant expression rooted deep as the mob

For my people to use if they feelin the vibe

Now, I'ma get to rappin, y'all scream

Like you out here rootin for your favorite basketball team

Like you're Parrish, I'm Bird, you're Magic, I'm Kareem

Like you're Sam Cassell and I'm The Dream Hakeem

Like you're Kobe, I'm Shaq, you're Ginobili, I'm Duncan

Like we goin for a re', let's get it jumpin

Let's get it goin like back in the Felt Forum

Back when Willis Reed came into the game scorin

Back when Bill Bradley wasn't so darn borin

Back with Phil Jackson, before he had Jordan

Goin like the coke that Scarface was snortin

Bangin like Billy Bob Thornton

White collar, blue collar, I holler, you holler

Let's get together, four quarters make a dollar

We ain't gettin younger and the block is gettin hotter

It takes a whole community for us to raise a scholar

White collar, blue collar, I holler, you holler

Let's get together, four quarters make a dollar

We ain't gettin younger and the block is gettin hotter

It takes a whole community for us to raise a scholar

Generic canned goods, free cheese and foodstamps

People runnin the street like they at boot camp

Pigs on patrol, hoes on the stroll

The clockers outside on the block ain't wearin gold

Nah, they wearin beat up jeans and new Nikeys

Short-sleeve polo shirts and new white tees

Boost mobile phones, also known as a chirp

You hear a ringtone play when the fiends want work

Brothers gettin pinched, snitchin on each other

Cops is like Lawrence Fishburne in Deep Cover

Actin like they not cops, but they are cops

They try to mingle with the crowd and they bar-hop

Sniffin for narcotics just like they the K-9s

Troopers everywhere up and down the state line

Ten-year old kids sellin crack in the daytime

The hood could take your life but it won't take mine

White collar, blue collar, I holler, you holler

Let's get together, four quarters make a dollar

We ain't gettin younger and the block is gettin hotter

It takes a whole community for us to raise a scholar

White collar, blue collar, I holler, you holler

Let's get together, four quarters make a dollar

We ain't gettin younger and the block is gettin hotter

It takes a whole community for us to raise a scholar

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Yes yes y'all (Keep on)

Benzes and Beamers, no more Laundromat, laundry goes to the cleaners

No more just settlin, now I'm pullin divas and skeezers

In them wife-beater shirts with new sneakers

The ones that was blinded before, but now they see us

They wanna help me max out my Visas, come through and snack on some Cheez-It's

Pour a glass of champagne, take some snapshots

Eat a strawberry tart, use my laptop

And my Discover card, shop from home

Roam naked through my crib while she talk on the phone

Hold candle light dinners, 50-inch plasmas

In every room, you ain't even gotta ask, brah

The red carpet treatment, what else could you ask for?

It's like fightin some dude that got a glass jaw

You hit 'em in the chin and you win

Your old life ends and your new one begins

White collar, blue collar, I holler, you holler

Let's get together, four quarters make a dollar

We ain't gettin younger and the block is gettin hotter

It takes a whole community for us to raise a scholar