I the needle off the record and shove it in my arm I feel life is comin' on too strong They me in a clinic fulla cynical and mothafuckin' bureaucrats And other kinda bats, they're livin' on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all depends side the tracks you're on
Tellin' me what to wear, me cut my hair And tryin' to convince me that they really really All about my health and about my But still built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just lookin' out for self So then I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, hell no illegal
a crime to be broke in America And it's a to smoke dank in America
Yeah, hit drums now, yeah They brother's in the poorhouse Who can't afford Moorhouse, politicians It's the only free service provide, you wanna go inside There's a hot meal waitin' for ya, a deal we can ya On a bed for a night or two, or three or months
say they lockin' us up in cells To protect us ourselves It smells like they got anotha in store house Or I say warehouse fulla niggaz and other misfits couldn't turn tricks in the courthouse But it's a justice
And it's a to be broke in America And a crime to be black in America, come on
But there's a mutiny on the bounty, in ever single So, we remember but don't forget to pat a few others On the back as a of fact Sister Shakur and Geronimo Pratt But Amnesty international is for political But if your analytical, you know it's much critical Than that percentages black is really, really Can I a few facts, yes?
Six percent in college, from livin' on the Twenty five in prison, the school of hard knocks Fifty in poverty is livin' on the rocks hundred brothas on a death row box The say, the is capital For who lack in capital a public defender can't remember the last time A brother wasn't like an animal
They say, blame it on a song when someone kills a cop music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq? Well, give me one so I can take a sample No need to it backwards if you wanna hear the devil music's not the problem, it didn't cause the bombin' But maybe they should listen to the of people starving
'Cause it's a to be broke in America And it's a crime to smoke in America
And it's a crime to be black in And it's a crime to be black in America, on now
on comin' now, yeah It's a crime to be Rican a crime to be African Crime to be American A to be Asian, Hatian, a woman