[Intro - Kanye West]
We in the streets, playa, get ya mail
It's only two places you end up either dead or in jail
Still nowhere to go, still nowhere to go
Now throw ya hands up hustlers, busters, boosters, hoes
Everybody, [bad word] that
Still nowhere to go, still nowhere to go

[Verse 1 - Mos Def]
Two words, United States, no love, no breaks
Low brow, high stakes, crack smoke, black folks
Big Macs, fat folks, ecstasy capsules
Presidential scandals, everybody move
Two words, Mos Def, K. West, hot [bad word] Calm down, get back, ghetto people, got this
Game 'pon lock [bad word]  gun 'pon [bad word] [bad word] We won't stop [bad word]  everybody move
Two words, BK, NY, Bed Stuy
Too harsh, too hungry, too many, that's why
These streets know game, can't ball, don't play
Heavy traffic, one lane, everybody move
Two words, Mos Def, Black Jack, hot [bad word] Calm down, get back, ghetto people, got this
Game 'pon lock, gun 'pon [bad word] We won't stop, everybody move

[Hook - Kanye West (w/ Harlem Boys Choir)]
Now throw ya hands up hustlers
Busters, boosters, hoes (Throw your hands up high)
Everybody, [bad word] that
Still nowhere to go, still nowhere to go
And keep ya hands up hustlers
Busters, boosters, hoes ('Til they reach the sky)
Everybody, [bad word] that
Still nowhere to go, still nowhere to go

[Verse 2 - Kanye West]
Two words, Chi-town, Southside, worldwide
Cause I rep that 'til I [bad word]  die
One neck two chains, one waist two gats
One wall twenty plaques, dues paid, gimme that
I am limelight, Blueprint five mics
Go Getters rhyme like, should've been signed twice
Most imitated, Grammy nominated
Hotel [bad word]  cheerleader prom-dated
Barbershop playa-hated, mom-and-pop bootlegged-ed
Felt like it rained 'til the roof caved in
Two words, Chi-town raised me crazy
So I live by two words:,  [bad word] you," "pay me"
Screamin' "Jesus save me"
You know how the game be
I can't let 'em change me
Cause on judgment day, you gon' blame me
Look, God, it's the same me
And I basically know now
We've been racially profiled
'Cuffed up and hosed down, pimped up and ho'd down
Plus I got a whole city to hold down
From the bottom so the top's
The only place to go now

[Hook]

[Verse 3 - Freeway]
Two words, free way, two letters, AR
Turn y'all rap niggas to two words, [bad word] Like Jackie Joyner, you better sleep with your burner
The heat skeet, blow a reef through ya car, my God
Two words, no guns, break arms
Break necks, break backs, Steven Seagal
Free, young boss, freshman of the Roc
With the beef in the pot Jay sent for his dogs
To brawl, forget ya squad, better fend for yourself
Have you screamin' out four words, "send for the law", uh
Two words, Freeway slightly retarded [bad word] around, throw a clip in ya artist, leave with his broad

[Outro - Mos Def (w/ Harlem Boys Choir)]
Red, white, blue, black (Throw your hands up)
Calm down, move back [bad word] askin' "who is that?"
You know it's the almighty Black Jack
Mos Def, K. West
Ghetto people get this [bad word] off ya chest
North to the south, to the east, to the west
Black Jack Johnson, it's no contest
(High) And show it to 'em like