I the needle off the record and shove it in my arm Whenever I feel life is on too strong They me in a clinic fulla cynical and mothafuckin' bureaucrats And other ding bats, they're livin' on the tracks The in my arm said It all which side the tracks you're on
me what to wear, tellin' me cut my hair And to convince me that they really really care All my health and about my wealth But they built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just out for they self So then I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, no that's illegal
It's a crime to be in America And it's a crime to dank in America
Yeah, hit those now, yeah lockin' brother's in the poorhouse Who can't afford Moorhouse, politicians the only free service they provide, you wanna go inside There's a hot meal waitin' for ya, a we can score ya On a bed for a or two, or three or four months
They say they us up in cells To protect us from It smells like they got plan in store house Or I say warehouse fulla niggaz and other misfits That couldn't turn in the courthouse But it's a justice
And a crime to be broke in America And it's a crime to be in America, come on
But a mutiny on the bounty, in ever single county So, we remember Attica but don't to pat a few others On the as a matter of fact Asatta Shakur and Geronimo Pratt But Amnesty is fightin' for political But if your analytical, you know it's more critical Than that percentages black is really, whack Can I a few facts, yes?
Six percent in college, from on the block five percent in prison, the school of hard knocks Fifty percent in poverty is livin' on the Five hundred on a death row box The say, the punishment is For those who lack in Because a public defender can't the last time A brother wasn't like an animal
They say, they blame it on a when someone kills a cop What music did listen to when they bombed Iraq? Well, give me one example so I can a sample No need to play it backwards if you hear the devil 'Cause not the problem, it didn't cause the bombin' But maybe they should listen to the songs of starving
'Cause it's a to be broke in America And a crime to smoke dank in America
And it's a crime to be black in And it's a to be black in America, come on now
on comin' now, yeah It's a crime to be Rican It's a to be African to be native American A to be Asian, Hatian, a woman