I take the off the record and shove it in my arm Whenever I feel life is comin' on too They me in a clinic fulla cynical and mothafuckin' bureaucrats And kinda ding bats, they're livin' on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all depends which side the you're on
Tellin' me to wear, tellin' me cut my hair And tryin' to convince me that they really really All about my and about my wealth But they built the Stealth 'Cause just lookin' 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 in America And it's a crime to dank in America
Yeah, hit those drums now, They lockin' in the poorhouse Who afford Moorhouse, politicians nervous It's the free 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 or two, or three or four months
They say they us up in cells To us from ourselves It smells like they got anotha in store house Or should I say warehouse fulla niggaz and other couldn't turn tricks in the courthouse But a justice whorehouse
And it's a to be broke in America And it's a crime to be in America, come on
But there's a on the bounty, in ever single county So, we remember Attica but forget to pat a few others On the back as a of fact Asatta Shakur and Geronimo Pratt But Amnesty international is for political But if analytical, you know it's much more critical Than that percentages is really, really whack Can I kick a few facts,
Six percent in college, livin' on the block Twenty percent in prison, the school of hard knocks Fifty percent in is livin' on the rocks Five hundred on a death row box The say, the punishment is For those who lack in Because a public defender can't remember the last A brother wasn't like an animal
They say, blame it on a song when someone kills a cop What music did they listen to when bombed Iraq? Well, give me one example so I can take a No need to play it backwards if you wanna hear the 'Cause not the problem, it didn't cause the bombin' But they should listen to the songs of people starving
'Cause it's a to be broke in America And a crime to smoke dank in America
And it's a crime to be black in And it's a crime to be in America, come on now
Keep on comin' now, It's a crime to be Rican It's a crime to be Crime to be American A to be Asian, Hatian, a woman