[Nina Simone]nBaby, you understand me nownIf sometimes you see that I'm madnDon't you know no one alive can always be an angelnWhen everything goes wrong, you see some badnn[Chorus- Nina Simone]nBut I'm just a soul whose intentions are goodnOh lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodnn[Verse 1- Lil' Wayne]nUh, misunderstood ain't gotta be explainednBut you don't understand me so let me explain (heh heh)nStood in the heat, the flames, the snownPlease slow down hurricanenThe wind blow, my dreads swingnHe had hair like wool, like Wayne (huh)nDropping ashes in the biblenI shake em out and they fall on the riflenScary, hail Mary no tale fairynAll real very, extraordinarynPerry Mason facing, the barrel if he tattlenMy god is my judge, no gown no gavelnUh, I'm a rebel, time to battlenNow or never, I would never, in the evernFucking fantastic, fuck if you agreenI'm bright but I don't give a fuck if you see menn[Chorus- Nina Simone]nI'm just a soul whose intentions are goodnOh lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodnnn[Verse 2- Lil' Wayne]nUh, what's understood ain't gotta be explainednSo for those who understand meet Tha WaynenFor eight and a half months I gave Ms. Cita painnNow it's Young Money baby, keep the changenMy momma say fuck 'em, and we the samenSo, hello motherfucker you got some sheets to changenAnd ain't it funny how people change like Easter SundaynYou know church fit them outfitnBright pink and green chest look house litnBright pinky rings but that ain't about thisnWhat you 'bout bitch?nExcuse my French emotion in my passionnBut I wear my heart on my sleeve like it's the new fashionnWhat are you asking, if I don't have the answernIt's probably on the web, like I'm a damn tarantulanBut I know you don't understandn'Cause you thought Lil' Wayne is WeezynBut Weezy is Waynenn[Chorus- Nina Simone]nI'm just a soul whose intentions are goodnOh lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodnnn[Lil' Wayne Talking]nI watched T.V. the other day rightnGot this white guy on there talkin' 'bout black guysnTalkin' about how young black guys are targetednTargeted by who?nAmericanYou see, one in every 100 Americans are locked upnOne in every, 9 black Americans are locked upnAnd see what the white guy was trying to stress was that (inhales and exhales smoke)nThe money that we spend on sending a motherfucker to jailnA young motherfucker to jailnWould be less to send, his or her young ass to college (ha)nSee, and another thing the white guy was stressing was thatnOur jails are populated with drug dealersnYou know crack cocaine, yeah, stuff like thatnMeanin' due to the laws we have on crack cocaine and regular cocainenThe police are onlynI don't want to say only right, but shitnOnly logic by riding around in the hood all daynAnd not in the suburbs, becausenCrack cocaine is mostly found in the hoodnAnd um, you know the other thing is mostly foundnYou know where I'm goingnBut why bring a motherfucker to jailnIf it's not goin' stand up in courtnBecause this drug ain't that drugnYou know level 3, level 4 drug, shit like that (hehe)nMmm hmm, I guess it's all a misunderstanding, and umnI sit back and think well shit us young motherfuckers,nYou know, that 1 in every 9nWe probably only selling the crack cocaine just because we in the hoodnAnd it's not like the suburbsnWe don't have the things that you havenWhy? I really don't want to know the answer, but uhnI guess we just misunderstood uh (haha ah) yeahnYou know we don't have room in the jailnNow for the real motherfuckers, the real criminals, you knownSex offenders, rapists, serial killers, shit like thatnDon't get scared, don't get scarednI know you saw one them sex offenders papersnDon't trip, he live right on the end of your block, mhmmnYeah, that nigga live right down the street from younSex offender on a level 3 drug, convicted, ex-con, yeah, check him outnAnd what you got, you got daughters, son, what you got?nYeah, well you know what (coughing don't stop the track) that's the good weednYou know what? I have a fuckin' daughternYou understand me? And, why the fuck would you bring my neighbornTo jail just because the reason why he live next door to menAin't the reason why I live next door to himnMean that, he didn't rap his way to my fuckin' neighborhoodnHe sold crack cocaine to get to my neighborhoodnYou move him out, bring him to jail for lifenAnd then you move in a sex offender, hahahanThey givin' me a paper, hahanIs that a misunderstanding? 'Cause I don't understand itn'Nother thing, let me take my glasses offn'Cause I want to see the reaction on the faces when I say thisnUh, Mr. Al Sharpton, here's why I don't respec' younAnd nobody like you, hm hm, seenYou're the type that gets off on gettin' on other people, ha hanThat's not good, no homonAnd rather unhuman I should saynI mean, given the fact that humanity, well, good humanity rathernTo me, is helpin' one another, no matter your color or racenBut this guy, and people like himnThey'd rather speculate before they informate, if that's a word, hahahnYou know, 'spect before check, anywaynMean that, I much rather you talk to me firstnAnd see if you can learn an opinion before you make onenJust my thought of good humanity, Mr. Sharpton hahanHold on, I ain't finished with you mannI gotta pluck the ashes, mhmm, hold on, umnMr. Sharpton, and anyone like you, you don't know menSo, if you're not gonna try to, then what you saynOr think about me, or whatever I do is totally Casper the friendly ghost to menAnd, it doesn't make you a good person tonCriticize before you improvizenDoesn't necessarily make you a bad person neither butnThe characteristics fall heavily into bad sway, hah hahnBut since I am human, I am good and bad as wellnBut I try my hardest to stay goodnAnd some of the things I do and say may be bad, or just not too goodnBut I do trynSo with that said, I don't fault you, I mean, you're only human hahanGood or bad, but I also don't respec' younAnd I don't care if that's good or bad, hahanYou see you are no MLK, you are no Jesse JacksonnYou a nobody, to me, you're just another Don King with a perm, hahahanJust a little more politicalnAnd that just means you're a little unhuman than us humansnAnd now, let me be human by sayin' fuck Al SharptonnAnd anyone like him, fuck if you understand menI love being misunderstoodnWhy? 'Cause I live in the suburbs but I come from the hoodnBring the hook innn[Chorus- Nina Simone]nI'm just a soul whose intentions are goodnOh lord, please don't let me be misunderstoodn