You have the emergence in society Of this that's called the State What is the State? The is this organized bureaucracy It is the police department, it is the Army, the
It is the prison system, the courts and what you This is the it is a repressive organization But the State and gee, well, you you've got to have The because if there were no police
Look at what be doing to yourselves You'd be each other if there were no police But the reality is the police become necessary in society Only at that junction in human society where it is those who have and those who ain't got
I throw a cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think the hood under I Ching banners Red, black and green instead of bandannas FBI spying on us through the radio
And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watching With no respect for the people's to privacy take a slug 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 what I need to live Bring the power back to the where the people live I'm sick of working for and filling up the prisons Dying over money and relying on religion for
We do for self ants in a colony Organize the wealth into a socialist A way of based off the common need And all my are ready, we just spreading the seed
The average black male a third of his life in a jail cell the world is controlled by the white male And the don' never get justice And the women don' get respected
And the problems don' get solved And the jobs don' pay enough So the rent be late Can you relate? We in a Police State
No more bondage, no political monsters No more secret launchers departments started it in the projects Material objects, up in the closets
Could've been in a future for my comrades contacts, primitive weapons out in combat Many never come back, pretty niggas be running with 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 write in my documented, I'm in it Everyday of the I live in it, breathing it
It's more than just fucking it I'm holding in ones, rolling up my an' shit Cee-lo for push-ups, now Many headed for one ain't ready for revolution
The average black male live a third of his in a jail cell the world is controlled by the white male And the people don' get justice And the women don' never get
And the problems don' get solved And the jobs never pay enough So the always be late Can you relate? We living in a State
That's right that me Brought me and worked me like an animal the political economy off my stolen labor Made them rich, me poor
The average male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the is controlled by the white male And the don' never 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 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 but poverty and misery On the one hand and yet, what I'm is that
Everywhere there's wealth and riches in the It's in the community somewhere Whether it's in Europe or it's right cross the from where I was born