Yo, the Brooklyn Bridge is to collapse yo Yo, this is Wyclef Jean the Refugee up in here The CNN for the Yo what's I here about the police in Brooklyn? Turn jam up yo Yo this is the of jam that be getting No Airplay I the whole world to hear this joint right here (apocalypse baby) Yo this is the type of jam that be getting No You for it buddy, here it comes...
- Hook] - 2x One, two ; out for the man in blue Three, four; I keep it raw and Five, six; you're beating us nightsticks Seven, eight; I'm to pack a thirty-eight Nine, you put me in a pen if I could do it all again, I'd probably your chin
- Verse One] I'm a land of black bats, alley rats and cats Scratch up my car, set me up for the pressure, I've got a legal gat Two straps, a of sixteen caps Say something More positivity positivity, more police brutality Thugs get angry, the violence You want peace, make Wyclef chief of Riding through the it's the same old story It's you play ball or you drug dealy-dealy Standing on the block when the spot hot to get set up, by a crooked cop So I'm back, rhyming on instrumentals I touch, it turns monumental Me and Wonder, we keep it credible for the streets At the same we've gotta eat When we commercialize to enterprise guaranteed to sell a hundred mil before we die But is broke, that's the situation Nine-seven, it's like no eviction No more war milk, no more cheese Police keep on shooting at our Bentleys
Yo this is the type of jam that be No Airplay The Bridge is about to collapse, apocalypse the type of jam that be getting No Airplay The ghetto is fed up, we got the in the air
- 1x
[Wyclef - Two]
Hey yo, on Earth, the party's still at the Tunnel on the side of the river, what man quiver Rats get fed to the Gun blasts equivalent to the bombs in Harbor Rescue choppers, Brooklyn turned to I'm driving to to escape the terror I was on the highway a black Viper A car up, is he a jack or a sniper? A blue Range Rover, he pull over I know he was a DT undercover I out my lungs, 'This is discrimination! What's the He said, 'You robbed a gas station' 'Who me? Not me! It be, I was at the Grammy's with L-Boogie, you see me on TV?' 'B.S.!, you're all in the same He ran me off the road, like he was Pe-col-trane I stayed calm, gave him a hell of a Cause if it's time to go, all I gotta press is turbo Heard him on his walkie, road on 280 West Things got serious, that's when I bust a U-Turn, my tires burn, my concern, was the head-on collision waited a second, changed position Close one heh, I almost went up in a Running from what appeared to be a You know the story, the same old math In Brooklyn, police put a up a man's ass!
This is the of jam that be getting No Airplay The Brooklyn Bridge will son! This is the type of kam that be No Airplay Police brutality to stop!!!
I'm out! Wyclef Jean, CNN...CNN...CNN! (Where at?! Where Brooklyn at?) Can't Jersey though baby! Police is all around the whole world, we need to chill all of that out...