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 ding bats, livin' on the tracks The in my arm said It all depends which side the tracks on
me what to wear, tellin' me cut my hair And tryin' to convince me that they really care All about my health and about my But they built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just out for they self So I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, hell no that's illegal
It's a crime to be broke in And a crime to smoke dank in America
Yeah, hit drums now, yeah They lockin' in the poorhouse Who can't afford Moorhouse, nervous 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 or two, or three or four months
They say they us up in cells 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 tricks in the courthouse But a justice whorehouse
And it's a crime to be in America And it's a to be black in America, come on
But there's a mutiny on the bounty, in ever county So, we Attica but don't forget to pat a few others On the back as a matter of Sister Asatta and Geronimo Pratt But international is fightin' for political But if analytical, you know it's much more critical Than that percentages black is really, really Can I kick a few facts,
Six percent in college, from on the block Twenty five percent in prison, the school of knocks Fifty percent in poverty is on the rocks hundred brothas on a death row box The say, the is capital For who lack in capital Because a defender can't remember the last time A brother wasn't treated an animal
They say, blame it on a song when someone kills a cop What did they listen to when they bombed Iraq? Well, me one example so I can take a sample 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 people
'Cause it's a crime to be broke in And it's a crime to dank in America
And it's a crime to be in America And it's a crime to be in America, come on now
Keep on now, yeah It's a crime to be Puerto a crime to be African Crime to be American A to be Asian, Hatian, a woman