I take the needle off the record and it in my arm Whenever I feel life is comin' on too They left me in a clinic fulla cynical and bureaucrats And other kinda ding bats, livin' on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all which side the tracks you're on
me what to wear, tellin' me cut my hair And tryin' to convince me that they really care All my health and about my wealth But still built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just lookin' out for self So then I ask 'em can I have a needle, hell no that's illegal
a crime to be broke in America And it's a 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 they provide, you wanna go There's a hot meal for ya, a deal we can score ya On a bed for a night or two, or or four months
say they lockin' us up in cells To us from 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 crime to be broke in And a crime to be black in America, come on
But a mutiny on the bounty, in ever single county So, we remember Attica but don't forget to pat a few On the back as a matter of Sister 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, really Can I a few facts, yes?
Six in college, from livin' on the block Twenty five percent in prison, the school of knocks Fifty percent in poverty is livin' on the Five hundred on a death row box The say, the punishment is For who lack in capital a public defender can't remember the last time A brother treated like an animal
They say, they it on a song when someone kills a cop music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq? Well, give me one example so I can a sample No to play it backwards if you wanna hear the devil 'Cause music's not the problem, it didn't cause the But maybe they should listen to the songs of people
'Cause it's a to be broke in America And a crime to smoke dank in America
And a crime to be black in America And it's a crime to be black in America, on now
on comin' now, yeah It's a crime to be Rican It's a to be African to be native American A crime to be Asian, Hatian, a