[Verse 1: They just them and frisk, you better move real lightly I heard they got a contest, ask Bill Afraid get locked up, they'll throw away the key They're free to move across the sea, you even free awaiting retrials, for drug deals, in New York Overcrowded Louisiana, it's sport Chicago is a wasteland, even colder in the No education, programs, now they each other Born prisons, most ghetto buildings got bars When you live without shit, go and worship them cars The vista the stoops, Marine billboards, you bored And on the block, you got bars, drug dealers and Father might be gone, or he's two jobs Stay at an oxymoron, moms working too hard Latchkey kids, no models, no guidance No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get into some
[Hook: x2 They come they cars, and they laws, and they bars They come at you sideways, no way get off And your whole life, you heard, stay from them cops And your word and balls, is all that you got
2] I'm Mr. President, I'm sorry Mr. Senator I'm sorry Mr. Governor, we can't, her See country of ours, see this world of ours Was never really yours, we got a little bored Nowadays, you got to deal, all breeds, of all types I you, the type right, to type right, all uptight Pause, none of us is goblins, that one guy And that was just, one story, a bunch of damn times On the real, this the first hint of a problem And when I say shit's a problem it's not industry jargon The problem I'm causing, have the CIA watching I've them take the damn picture, I bleed for the orphans The sick and the starving, the lost ones, stuck no options It's awesome, like people straight out of their coffins See we know, it's just us, no justice in this Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever Elementary
x2 They come with cars, and they laws, and they bars They at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, away from them cops And word and your balls, is all that you got
3] So what we gonna do, the question of course A lot of human beings, struggled over these You got the for Radicals, The Activist Handbook I threw it all away, let's create our own There are more locked up here, anywhere else Plus, most of on drug charges, most never dealt of them in jail, probably there cause they smelt Weed crimes, fill a hell of a lot of the cells Stand still, we won't, we tall, we all Brave enough, to say enough is enough, so on Shit, ain't hard to tell, take a look around Feel everyone in prison's either black or they brown And it's kind of for me to be, all black and proud But I in the damn system, seen my friends go down Smell the of the earth, hit me on the low And if anybody ask, I pay tax and don't
x2 They come with cars, and they laws, and they bars They come at you sideways, no way get off And your whole life, you heard, stay away them cops And word and your balls, is all that you got