I the needle off the record and shove it in my arm Whenever I feel life is comin' on too They left me in a clinic cynical and mothafuckin' bureaucrats And other kinda ding bats, they're on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all which side the tracks you're on
Tellin' me to wear, tellin' me cut my hair And tryin' to convince me they really really care All about my health and about my But still they the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just lookin' out for self So then I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, hell no illegal
It's a crime to be in America And it's a crime to smoke dank in
Yeah, hit those drums now, They lockin' brother's in the Who afford Moorhouse, politicians nervous It's the only service they 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 or four months
They say they lockin' us up in To protect us ourselves It smells like they got plan in store house Or should I say warehouse niggaz and other misfits That couldn't turn in the courthouse But it's a whorehouse
And it's a crime to be broke in And it's a crime to be in America, come on
But there's a mutiny on the bounty, in ever county So, we remember Attica but don't to pat a few others On the back as a matter of Asatta Shakur and Geronimo Pratt But international is fightin' for political But if your analytical, you know it's much critical Than that percentages black is really, whack Can I kick a few facts,
Six percent in college, from livin' on the Twenty five percent in prison, the of hard knocks percent in poverty is livin' on the rocks Five brothas on a death row box The say, the is capital For those who in capital Because a public defender can't remember the last A brother wasn't like an animal
They say, they blame it on a song someone kills a cop What music did they listen to when they Iraq? Well, give me one example so I can take a No need to play it backwards if you wanna the devil 'Cause music's not the problem, it didn't the bombin' But maybe they should listen to the songs of 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 a crime to be black in America, come on now
on comin' now, yeah It's a crime to be Puerto It's a crime to be Crime to be American A to be Asian, Hatian, a woman