[Intro: Speech, Headliner & Arrested Development]
Hey, alright
Hey, come on
Yo, this is Headliner from the Arrested Development (Hey)
And right now you're in the mist of a celebration (Alright)
A celebration of life, death, and the struggle of our ancestors (Hey)
Check it out, let me hear you say woah (Woah)
Say yeah (Yeah)
Say woah (Woah), yeah (Yeah)
Woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah)
Woah (Woah)
Say yeah (Yeah)
Say woah (Woah), yeah (Yeah)
Woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah), woah (Yeah)

[Chorus: Arrested Development]
I am everyday people
You see, I am everyday people

[Verse 1: Speech, Aerle Taree, Speech & Aerle Taree]
See I was restin' at the park mindin' my own (My own)
Business as I kick up the treble tone (The treble tone)
On my radio tape player box, right (Box, right)
Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?
Outta nowhere (Nowhere) comes the woman I'm datin' (I'm datin')
Investigation maybe she was demonstratin'
But nevertheless I was pleased (I was pleased)
My day was goin' great and my soul was at ease
Until a group of brothers (Brothers) started buggin' out (Buggin' out)
Drinkin' the forty ounce (The forty ounce), goin' the n***a route (The n***a route)
Disrespectin' my Black queen (Black queen)
Holdin' their crotches and bein' obscene (Obscene)
At first I ignored them 'cause see I know their type (I know their type)
They got drunk, they got guns and yes, they wanna fight (What? What? They wanna fight)
And they see a young couple having a time that's good (Time that's good)
And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech (Uh) 'cause of my hair-do (Dreadlocks)
And the loud bright colors that I wear (Boom)
I was a target (Haha) 'cause I'm a fashion misfit (Misfit)
And the outfit that I'm wearin' brothers dissin' it (Huh)
Well, I stay calm and pray the n***as leave me be (Uh-huh)
But they're squeezin' parts of my date's anatomy (Anatomy)
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me? (Drill me)
'Cause if I start (Ahh) to hit this man, he'll have to kill me, you see
[Chorus: Arrested Development]
I am everyday people
You see, I am everyday people

[Verse 2: Speech, Aerle Taree, Speech & Aerle Taree]
I told the n***as please let us pass, friend (Let us pass, friend)
I said please 'cause I don't like killin' Africans
But he wouldn't stop, and I ain't Ice Cube (Who?)
But I had to take the brother out for bein' rude (Hey)
And like I said before (Said before), I was mad by then (I was mad by then)
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him (What? They pulled me off of him)
But that's the story, y'all (Story, y'all), of a Black man (Black man)
Actin' like a n***a (N***a) and get stomped (Stomped) by an African, you see

[Chorus: Arrested Development]
I am everyday people
You see, I am everyday people

[Outro: Aerle Taree]
The moral of the story is you never know who you steppin' to
You might be stabbed, shot, killed, or hurt
It's not even worth it
Hey, you know, you know, you know, you know, hit it