Beef is not what Jay said to Nas,
beef is when working niggas can’t find jobs
so they’re trying to find niggas to rob;
trying to find bigger guns so they can finish the job.

Beef is when the crack kids can’t find moms,
’cause they’re in a pine box or locked behind bars.

Beef ain’t the “summer jam” for Hot-97,
beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic.

Beef don’t come with a radio edit, beef is when the judge is calling you “defendant”.
Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence handed down to you in a few short minutes.

Beef is when your girl come through for a visit talking bout “I’m pregnant by some other nigga”.

Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit,
need a loan for your home and you’re too broke to get it.
And all your little kids is doin is getting bigger;
you tryin not to raise them around these wild niggas.

Beef is when a gold digger got your seed in her;
a manicured hand out like “pay me nigga
or I’m telling your wife,
or starting up some foul rumor that’ll ruin your life.”

Beef is when a gangster ain’t doin it right,
and other gangsters done decided what to do with his life.

Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic,
beef is what George Bush would do in a fight.

Beef is not what Ja said to 50,
beef is Weldon Irv not bein here with me.

When a soldier ends his life with his own gun,
beef is trying to figure out what to tell his son.

Beef is oil prices and geopolitics;
beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip

Some beef is big and some beef is small
but what y’all call beef is not beef at all.

Beef is real life happening everyday,
and it’s realer than them songs that you get at Kay Slay.

This has been a Black Star PSA
From Mos Def, Pretty Flaco, Black Dante,
and the Black Star embassy, B to the K

Black Star – What’s Beef?