I Can't Understand

I can't understand, I can't understand

I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned

I just destroyed another phony ass rapper again

She wasn't causin' it

She must be stupid as a fiend

They should have told the child, "You don't step to the Queen!"

Perplexed and I'm vexed 'cause everywhere I go

People be flexin' expectin' me to wanna flow

I don't play that, the only way that

I would be playing is if I pay back

And run the playback, so whatcha sayin'?

You don't wanna be a sista' in the name of rap

Yet you wanna talk shit and your style is wack

I would have squashed it before and made the whole issue dead

But now I'm fed, so it's off with your head

Now

The moral of the verse is your career is through

And don't be fuckin' with nobody who ain't fuckin' with you

If I was in yo' shoes I'd let the BS start walkin'

Next time there might not be no talkin'

I can't understand, I can't understand

I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

A brotha pushed up on me at the movies one weekend

He was on a quest and I was who he was seekin'

And although I am Black and he was a Puerto Rican

Ain't make no diff to me, so we continued to speak and

We hit it right off and everything was on a roll

Before I knew it, I fell in love with his soul

"Aye papi, aye!" was the cry as he made love to me

I was freaked by the way he used to do me

And then one day when I was washin' our clothes

A number fell outta his pocket and her name was Rose

A girl's number? Hmm, that struck me kinda funny

I lost my grip, I had to call up the honey

"There was a chick on the side!" Oh no it couldn't be!

"There was a chick on the side!" He's down with OPP?

I gave you the whole shebang

Just to find another woman hittin' my thang

I can't understand, I can't understand

I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

Why the negative vibes? And why the people take bribes?

I don't understand it yo (I don't know)

Why do bad people live? And why do good people die?

Somebody gotta tell me why (I don't know)

Why do people smoke crack? And why do White fight Black?

What's the scenario? (I don't know)

Why do hearts get broken? Why the chumps get choked?

They know I ain't no joke (I don't know)

Now, with the drums to the bass to the piano to the horn

It's a crazy ass life and that's my word, it's bond

I'm tryin' to be as logical as I possibly can

But for the life of me, you know I just can't understand

What's goin' on sometimes

So situations like this come out in my rhymes

But Queen Latifah ain't gone just yet

'Cause when it comes to masterin' confusion I'm a vet

I can't understand, I can't understand

I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(Things are goin' crazy) I can't understand, I can't understand

(It's got me goin')