Gangster

You know say everybody cannot be a gangster

And that life is not for I

That life is not for I

I'm only hailing up the Most High

I, I

I'm Makabe and Oneness

Chuh

I don't wanna be a gangster

I don't wanna kill no one

I and I a hail up Rastafari

I'm only fighting for liberation

I don't wanna be a gangster

I don't wanna kill no one

But if a boy violate me, I tell unnu straight

Things coulda pop dung, dung, dung

From a youth man I didn't wanna be that

Now me a big man, I coulda never pree that

But just because you see that

You can't take a warrior fi idiot

'Cause if a war, it must be fi a cause

Can't kill a man just because

Him mighta step upon your toe or look upon you hard

Tired of unnecessary wars

I leave that alone

Me nah inna that there zone

I say Marcus Garvey and not Al Capone

Marcus give me the word and the power and the sound

Look to Africa, a king will be crowned

Like a stone

No more will I maround

Nah follow nobody vice, me follow fi me own

I and I a drum, put Babylon dem underground

From Washington right down to Rome

I don't wanna be a gangster

I don't wanna kill no one

I and I a hail up Rastafari

I'm only fighting for liberation

I don't wanna be a gangster

I don't wanna kill no one

But if a boy violate me, I tell unnu straight

Things coulda pop dung, dung, dung

Say Babylon gwaan like them criticize it

But the truth is they love to glamorize it

And instead of despise it

Them encouraging the youth dem fi rise it

Chuh

It's inna the movies, it also inna the music

Sometimes it's hard fi the youth dem fi refuse it

But I man nah excuse it

'Cause a everybody's own choice fi choose it

'Cause inna life, you got two roads to choose

One you a go win and the other one you lose

Say Babylon a try fi get the youth dem confused

Put them face pon the headline news