Bob, you can pan over a little bit. Look at this right here, this is a suburban type Jeep with a sharp shooter peering outside of the sunroof with an automatic rifle. It appears to be a scene you might see in Desert Storm and we've been seeing this all night
It's a trap, it's a Why they ain't tell us red and don't matter when you black? Matter of we in blindfolds, bunch of lost souls Kids shot dead in the streets, now they eyes How you call the angels it's kings getting beat up? And Gil Garcetti in his office with his up No way to dodge police Sellin' cocaine, makin' a teacher's salary Mexicans the borders in the thousands Become cholos, one button Pendletons, stylin' Crips on the corner in Dodger with they gold chains Bloods sportin' corn and Chucks with the red strings Sun goin' so them Chevys 'bout to roll out Fiends themselves, stumblin' out the dope house tyin' bandanas, 'bout to put the drum on Kids tryna make it home street lights come on
The way we live is The way we live is The way we is savage The way we live is
So grab that gun, load that Grab that torch, light that shit, grab stick Grab that brick, throw it. time to riot If you don't see owned in the window, it's on fire Start here, end up over The smell of gun in the air And so we clear, this is pain and despair We burn our own shit and we and don't care the national guards to disappear We got guns too and we ain't So fuck the man, fuck the President Bush and his gotta change, we ain't waitin', fuck patience Cause the government corrupt, I can it Martin, Malcolm, P. Newton And that's why the whole out here lootin' How can we stand here and not do All this over the hood lookin' like low clouds Cars with no on fire, they broke down White people that they was at home frontin' like they business is black owned Far from stupid, we in the stores trippin' Runnin' in meets for they Jordans and they Pippins Crowbars, bats, anythin' break glass They fucked Rodney up and now it's they ass So it's bottle through the window that was never smokin' endo Fiends kickin' in doors, Nintendos robbin' liquor stores with taped up "Duck Hunt" guns City burnin' but fucked up fun National on the corner They know the hood, they foreigners We was at the cops before Chris Dorner Ghetto birds flyin' the hood, they see us Showin' the fuck out, cleanin' the out Niggas mobbin' down the streets pushin' big screens and Starin' straight the cameras, no ski mask Just pandemonium, lootin' what they homies in Runnin' around with guns like they was Tony and them Who, what, where, when, how the they gon' stop us? When the 50 years we accustomed to window shoppin' So we takin' to the tip of magazines Dip 'em in gasoline and set this on (fire)
The whole world watchin', Los is on (fire) Yeah, (fire) 1992, was you for the (fire?)
Standin' on the corner with a in my hand When my mother told me sit in the van, nah fuck Foot chained up, wire cutters cut that Niggas Crip where Reginald Denny's truck at Police cars, by niggas in slow mo If you white don't stop at the light, 'cause that's a Runnin' through the malls, us everything polo The first time niggas ain't have with the cholos '92, fire lit the skyline, and why we To capture that forbidden truth Adam never ate the fruit your blue suits, your badge, and them high beams We out here sellin' chronic, we ain't no Jimmy Iovines Shit burnin', you gon' need more than We makin' a better than anyone that I've seen Should be on Showtime, HBO, Get a match, we gon' make sure y'all remember that (fire)
The whole watchin', Los Angeles is on (fire) Yeah, (fire) 1992, was you for the (fire?)
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