Common - Real People (Live)

Common performing 'Real People' from the album Be, on the David Letterman show.

Real People is produced by Kanye West, and written by Lonnie Lynn, Ceasar J. Frazier and Kanye West. The track contains samples from "Sweet Children" by Ceasar Frazier.


LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
Real People walk in the streets, the streets is talkin'
Often it's beef this city never does
People walk and talk in they sleep
Cold sweats and wet dreams
On how to get green our faith is all in a jeep
Black souls raw and they deep
Hypes tryna talk with no teeth
Shorties sayin' ball or retreat
A lesson we all speak at one point or another
Whatchu expect from one who smoke a joint with his mother
Anointed hustlers in a fatherless region
Through the pain wish they know that God was just teachin'
We want decent homes
So dreams we say out loud like speakerphones just to keep em on
It's like a colored song that keep keepin' on
I guess knowin' I'm weak is when I'm really bein' strong
Somehow through the dust I could see the dawn
Like the Bishop Magic Juan, that's why I write freedom songs
For the real people

[Verse 2]
I wonder is the spirits of Bob Marley and Haile Selassie
Watch me as the cops be tryna and pop and lock me
They cocky, plus they mentality is Nazi
The way they treat blacks I wanna snap like paparazzi
We're the children of a better God searchin' for better jobs
We could cop ghetto cars tryin' not to catch a charge
They say the dope game is sour
Now they doin' homework that's when they follow you for hours
Come to your crib and devour all that you work for
Must be more than paper these niggaz hurt for
Through the purple haze I circle days I rhyme that work for pays
Tryna reverse the slave's mind and insert the brave mentality
Heard that it's drama at home
Can a dude break free and still get honored at home
I was told by a chief it's the games nature
When you're glowin' some will love and some will hate ya
It's real people

[Verse 3] (Omitted from live performance)
Black men walking wit white girls on they arms
I be mad at em as if I know they moms
Told to go beyond the surface, a person's a person
When we lessen our women our condition seems to worsen
The weary cursin' the sky
Talkin' to themselves givin' the version of why help and hurt in they eye
I live across from it, some of it I do be in
I be showin' niggaz lives
Like UPN
It's real people

Yeah.
For you and yours
Good music
Forever
Yeah
Rock on
We keep on
Uh.. Yeah
Yeah, yeah
The real...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• hip-hop
• jazz
• r&b
• rap
• common
• sense
• be
• real
• people
• david
• letterman
• live
• chicago

[brettorrmusic]

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It's easy... I'm sick to death of idiots having racial discussions all over my famourite YouTube Flicks. Let's all get together and try to have peaceful conversations about great videos... sounds easy to me.

Speaking of which... I love this man! So talented and has some of the best diction in the business.

[MorningView4]

People say Lil Wayne is the best rapper alive...People should open there eyes/ears and look no further than the man with the mic in this video.

[KiDxAlOhA]

i came from watching Drakes Cali Christmas 2011, and common live is SO much better than drake

[bigfootismyteddy]

the song ends in 3:13 his birthday.

[neptuneniq]

wow this guy is so thug...-_-

stupid fox news

[SuperSoulmind]

real rap

[2000hiphophead]

Common is one of the best ever. If you're feeling this, search "Let God Let God-Munchini" or "They Say-Munchini" and leave a comment. Real hip-hop lovers only.

[Nowak98765]

does anybody know what the name of the song is that common sing and there is background music with a girl saying something like i got that baby or few secs later she says jus tkeep it reall???? anyone??

[ABisopht]

Chicago ill-a-noise!

[ANGELYSTIC]

Common, le plus classe de tout les rappers...et le talent en plus ! J'ADORE !

[InnovationDnB]

It frustrates me so much on how artists such a Common don't get no recognition due to the fact his not in the mainstream. It's all this young money bullshit? (they all sound the same) It's a shame.. that real music can only be heard and found by people who are searching for Real music.. and unfortunatly that not a large percentage of the world. :(

[KINGSED99]

Rashid would bang on Lil' Wayne the arachnid! Real Gangstas from the Chi know how Com Sense used to be with the shit back in the day. He came a long way from a boy to a man thru civilization. This is a REAL legendary Hip-Hop emcee. Please do not compare nor confuse artist like these with the likes of phony, fake studio rappers with no street credibility.