I take the needle off the and shove it in my arm I feel life is comin' on too strong They left me in a fulla cynical and mothafuckin' bureaucrats And other kinda ding bats, they're on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all depends which side the you're on
Tellin' me what to wear, tellin' me cut my And tryin' to convince me that they really care All my health and about my wealth But they built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just lookin' out for self So then I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, hell no that's
It's a crime to be in America And it's a crime to dank in America
Yeah, hit drums now, yeah They brother's in the poorhouse Who can't afford Moorhouse, nervous It's the only free they provide, you wanna go inside There's a hot meal waitin' for ya, a we can score ya On a bed for a night or two, or three or months
They say they us up in cells To protect us from It smells like they got anotha plan in house Or should I say warehouse fulla niggaz and other That turn tricks in the courthouse But a justice whorehouse
And it's a crime to be broke in And it's a crime to be black in America, on
But there's a on the bounty, in ever single county So, we remember Attica but don't to pat a few others On the back as a matter of Sister Shakur and Geronimo Pratt But Amnesty international is fightin' for But if your analytical, you know much more critical Than that black is really, really whack Can I a few facts, yes?
Six percent in college, from on the block Twenty percent in prison, the school of hard knocks Fifty percent in poverty is on the rocks Five hundred brothas on a row box The say, the punishment is For those who in capital Because a public defender can't the last time A brother wasn't treated like an
They say, they blame it on a song when someone a cop What music did they listen to when they bombed Well, me one example so I can take a sample No need to it backwards if you wanna hear the devil 'Cause not the problem, it didn't cause the bombin' But maybe should listen to the songs of people starving
'Cause it's a crime to be in America And it's a crime to dank in America
And a crime to be black in America And it's a crime to be in America, come on now
Keep on now, yeah a crime to be Puerto Rican It's a to be African Crime to be native A crime to be Asian, Hatian, a