You have the in human society Of thing that's called the State 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 and what have you is the State it is a repressive organization But the and gee, well, you know you've got to have The police if there were no police
Look at what you'd be to yourselves be killing each other if there were no police But the is the police become necessary in human society at that junction in human society where it is split Between those who have and those who got
I throw a cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think the hood under I Ching banners Red, and green instead of gang bandannas FBI on us through the radio antennas
And them hidden cameras in the watching society With no respect for the people's right to I'll take a slug for the like Huey P. all you fake niggas try to copy Master P I want to be free to live
Hey but, have what I need to live Bring the power to the street where the people live I'm of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons Dying over money and on religion for help
We do for self ants in a colony Organize the wealth into a socialist A way of life off the common need And all my comrades are ready, we just the seed
The black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the world is controlled by the male And the people don' get justice And the women never get respected
And the problems don' get solved And the jobs don' pay enough So the rent always be Can you relate? We living in a State
No more bondage, no more monsters No more secret launchers Government started it in the projects Material objects, up in the closets
Could've been in a future for my comrades Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in Many never back, pretty niggas be running with gats Rather get shot in they back than fire back, we tired of
Corporations hiring blacks, the facts us all over the map That's why I write the shit, I in my raps documented, I'm in it Everyday of the I live in it, breathing it
It's than just fucking believing it I'm holding in ones, rolling up my sleeves an' It's for push-ups, now Many headed for one Niggas ain't ready for
The average black live a third of his life in a jail cell the world is controlled by the white male And the people never get justice And the women never get respected
And the problems don' get solved And the jobs don' never pay So the rent be late Can you We living in a Police State
That's that developed me Brought me and worked me like an animal Built the political economy off my stolen Made them rich, made me
The average black male live a third of his life in a jail 'Cause the world is by the white male And the people don' get justice And the women never get respected
And the problems don' get solved And the don' never pay enough So the rent be late Can you We living in a police state
Why is it that black people and everybody us in the kind of poverty and misery that we live in? Everywhere I look me are nothing but poverty and misery On the one and yet, what I'm seeing is that
Everywhere there's wealth and in the world It's in the white somewhere Whether it's in or whether it's right cross the Street from I was born