Black Eyed Peas

Released: June 30, 1998

Featuring: Dawn Beckman

Songwriter: Michael Oliver Brian Lapin Kevin Feyen Taboo apl.de.ap will.i.am

Producer: will.i.am

[Chorus]
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'

[Verse 1: will.i.am, apl.de.ap & Taboo]
Nineteen-ninety-two and, you and I were fightin'
LAPD beatings got the whole world frontin
My man Rodney King and the Reginald Deeney
You could look for justice but I bet you won't find any
Because people getting beatin', news keep repeatin'
Chaos and anger, just surely peakin'
Yo everybody's runnin', some of them are gunnin'
Avalanche the block, feel the anger, wantin' something
'Cause some of them are frontin', they didn't know the reason
Emotion in the end made it feel like revolution
And yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains
I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains

[Pre-Chorus: will.i.am]
So hurry up because I'm runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip (what), runnin' out of time

[Chorus]
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'

[Verse 2: will.i.am, apl.de.ap & Taboo]
Nineteen-ninety-seven, reduction of a nation
The government is slayin', new laws is what you're facin'
Next comes the clonin', they're makin' new creation
Secretly forming soldiers of you and they station
No more free education on former segregation
Politics's about affirmative activation
So make a run for the border, caught by the deporter
The immigration caught you but you got to leave your daughter
We are slowly being slaughtered
So be prepared for the new world order
Yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains
I tell you right now, you got three years to change

[Pre-Chorus: will.i.am]
So hurry up because I'm runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip, runnin' out of time
Runnin' out of clip (what), runnin' out of time

[Chorus]
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'

[Verse 3: will.i.am, apl.de.ap & Taboo]
Year two-thousand, what's it really holdin'
Or is it really right, live beyond on what you're knowing
Or is it that technology is what keeps on going
Could it be that the end of time is what I'm showing
I don't see any grass growin'
Everything's conquered, we're running out of land
And goddamn yo, I'm runnin' out of clip
I'm almost out of time
Runnin' out of
Damn, I'm almost out of time
We could all try now but just look up in the sky
We ain't got no ozone left, we are gonna die
Crime and corruption, is the only season
Is it cause the reason is that we out of time

[Chorus]
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'
Children growin', women producin'
Men go work, and some gon' steal
Everyone's got to make a livin'

The Black Eyed Peas is a hip-hop and pop group, currently consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and singer Jessica Reynoso.

Originally, The Black Eyed Peas were a hip-hop group, standing alongside the likes of Talib Kweli and Jurassic 5.

In the early 2000s, they started to add pop and EDM influences to their music. They subsequently added Fergie to the group and became the pop sensations that they became from 2003 to 2011. Fergie eventually left in 2018 and the Peas returned to their hip-hop roots.

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