You have the emergence in society Of this thing that's called the What is the State? The State is organized bureaucracy It is the department, it is the Army, the Navy
It is the prison system, the courts and have you This is the State it is a repressive But the State and gee, well, you know got to have The because if there were no police
Look at you'd be doing to yourselves You'd be each other if there were no police But the is the police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in society where it is split Between who have and those who ain't got
I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you how we think Organize the hood I Ching banners Red, black and instead of gang bandannas FBI spying on us through the radio
And them cameras in the streetlight watching society no respect for the people's right to privacy I'll take a for the cause like Huey P. While all you fake niggas try to copy Master P I want to be to live
Hey but, they have what I to live Bring the power to the street where the people live I'm sick of working for crumbs and up the prisons over money and relying on religion for help
We do for like ants in a colony Organize the wealth into a economy A way of life based off the need And all my comrades are ready, we spreading the seed
The average male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the is controlled by the white male And the people don' never get And the women don' get respected
And the problems never get solved And the jobs never pay enough So the rent be late Can you We living in a Police State
No more bondage, no political monsters No secret space launchers Government started it in the projects Material objects, thousands up in the
been invested in a future for my comrades Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in Many never come back, pretty niggas be running gats Rather get shot in they back fire back, we tired of that
Corporations hiring blacks, denying the us all over the map That's why I write the shit, I in my raps documented, I'm in it Everyday of the week I in it, breathing it
It's more than fucking believing it I'm holding in ones, up my sleeves an' shit Cee-lo for push-ups, now Many for one conclusion Niggas ready for revolution
The average male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the world is by the white male And the people don' get justice And the women don' never get
And the problems never get solved And the jobs never pay enough So the always be late Can you relate? We living in a State
right that developed me Brought me and worked me like an animal Built the political economy off my labor Made rich, made me poor
The average black male live a third of his life in a cell the world is controlled by the white male And the people don' never get And the women never get respected
And the problems don' never get And the jobs don' never pay So the rent be late Can you relate? We living in a state
Why is it that black people and everybody us in the kind of poverty and misery that we live in? Everywhere I look around me are nothing but and misery On the one hand and yet, what I'm seeing is
Everywhere wealth and riches in the world It's in the community somewhere Whether it's in Europe or it's right cross the from where I was born