Don't make me laugh, niggas funny De la soul, from the soul You can't duplicate the sound, boy Don't make me laugh, niggas funny Nigga: A noun, usually disparaging and offensive A term used to refer to or address a black person Don't make me laugh, niggas funny Huh, funny, an adjective, providing fun, causing amusement or laughter Or warranting suspicion like you motherfuckers Don't make me laugh, niggas funny She walk around with her top down Let me talk in her ear, she know me as sop sound Some do it for the culture We do it for cultivating the mind that's knocked down We worth millions but not millionaires 'Cause music industry rules are in disrepair, yet Matrimony of time and body intervenes with wisdom To right the wrongs of any would-be king They offerin' a castle, but who owns the land? Questions rarely asked in becoming a man See, way back when, we were teens and wide-eyed with the third one closed While the nose is breathing up the glitz, tryna catch a whiff of the fame And gather any shine on our name But jealousy rained down from those whose thoughts are never sunny Saying (don't make me laugh, niggas funny) It be that textbook hood dilemmas When you 'bout to gain light, jealous ones want to install the dimmers Now is the same as then A nigga heart is on hate while his face lies to you with a grin It's where the evil liar lurks, watchin' others approving of your works One too many praises raises their blood with fermented frowns or a smirk They throw mud while saying (don't make me laugh, niggas funny) And the elders steady telling the youth That wisdom's being pulled out the hood as if attached to a tooth And now nerves exposed Girls try to set the boys on the right track, they like: The nerve of them olds I suppose when they were kids, they watched cartoons And flew around their room like the man from krypton As they got older, you know what some do They separate red and blue and get their bloods and crips on So many mesmerized by the mess They hear the ringin' in their ears That's the gods trying to align 'em But unlike pianos, they choose to be out of tune, so that's where you find 'em A wrench with a stench for somebody else's come-up Especially when our skin is indigenous to the sunup I run up to write on the page of life, but they snatch it from me while saying (don't make me laugh, niggas funny) And on the other side of this, you have them funny-style niggas talkin' with a hiss They fast and ugly, foul And flashin' tryna get a reaction from the crowd, it's wild To knock this kid on his ass, we're unallowed All these bird niggas mincin' they words is runnin' 'round Out here waitin' for the man like velvet underground Smart brothers keep convincin' themselves to dumb it down Pickin' poison off of bodega shelves to numb it now Listen, when it get ugly quick, fast, and in a hurry Sometimes it boil down to who had the biggest money Or the one who philly wanted enough to get it from me Think you hungry enough? (Don't make me laugh, niggas funny) Look, I'm sick of following the masses I'm sick of givin' up game to niggas failin' classes, niggas lame I'm sick of half-assed hip-hop flows, sick of passport bros Sick of hoes with the same fat ass and short nose Uh-oh, they comin' for me? Them clones wanna son me But shorties with the cookies and scones, they love to love me Probably why some clowns swear they supposed to mean-mug me I mean, literally (don't make me laugh, niggas funny) I'm from 5th and mckean where people live in between horror and hell Convince you that they just livin' the dream Every day another reason to play the visitin' team They say the meter to make it's if you can lift a machine Where the stars don't shine bright and days ain't sunny It's a struggle to fly right and claim victory In the subtlest twilight, but that ain't shit to me Check the history (don't make me laugh, niggas funny) Don't make me laugh Don't, don't make me laugh Don't make me laugh, niggas, niggas funny Don't make me laugh Don't make me laugh