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 clinic fulla cynical and mothafuckin' And other kinda ding bats, livin' on the tracks The tracks in my arm It all depends which side the tracks on
Tellin' me what to wear, tellin' me cut my And tryin' to convince me that they really care All about my health and about my But still built the Stealth 'Cause everybody's just lookin' out for they So then I ask 'em can I have a clean needle, hell no that's
It's a crime to be broke in And it's a to smoke dank in America
Yeah, hit those drums now, They lockin' brother's in the Who can't Moorhouse, politicians nervous It's the only free service they provide, you go inside a hot meal waitin' for ya, a deal we can score ya On a bed for a or two, or three or four months
say they lockin' us up in cells To protect us ourselves It smells like they got plan in store house Or should I say warehouse fulla niggaz and other That couldn't tricks in the courthouse But a justice 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 Attica but don't forget 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 it's much more critical Than that percentages black is really, whack Can I a few facts, yes?
Six percent in college, from livin' on the five 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 is capital For who lack 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 kills a cop What music did they listen to when they bombed Well, give me one example so I can a sample No need to play it backwards if you wanna hear the 'Cause not the problem, it didn't cause the bombin' But maybe they should to the songs of people starving
it's a crime to be broke in America And it's a crime to smoke 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 a crime to be African Crime to be American A crime to be Asian, Hatian, a