[Verse 1: They just stop them and frisk, you better move lightly I they got a contest, ask Bill O'Reilly Afraid you'll get up, they'll throw away the key free to move across the sea, you ain't even free Still retrials, for drug deals, in New York Overcrowded Louisiana, California sport Chicago is a wasteland, colder in the summer No education, programs, now they murdering each Born into prisons, most ghetto got bars When you live without shit, go head and them cars The vista from the stoops, Marine billboards, you And on the block, you got bars, dealers and whores Father be gone, or he's working two jobs at home's an oxymoron, moms working too hard Latchkey kids, no models, no guidance No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get some violence
AWKWORD] x2 They come they cars, and they laws, and they bars come at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your life, you heard, stay away from them cops And your and your balls, is all that you got
2] I'm Mr. President, I'm sorry Mr. Senator I'm Mr. Governor, we can't, recover her See this country of ours, see world of ours Was never yours, we just got a little bored Nowadays, you got to deal, with all breeds, of all I guess you, the right, to type right, all uptight Pause, of us is goblins, except that one guy And that was just, one story, told a bunch of times On the real, call this the first hint of a And when I say some shit's a problem it's not industry The problem I'm causing, have the CIA watching I've seen them the damn picture, I bleed for the orphans The and the starving, the lost ones, stuck with no options It's awesome, like pulling people straight out of their See we know, it's just us, no in this bitch Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever Elementary
x2 They come with they cars, and they laws, and they 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
3] So we gonna do, that's the question of course A lot of beings, struggled over these thoughts You got the Rules for Radicals, The Handbook I threw it all away, create our own standard There are more up here, than anywhere else Plus, most of them on charges, most never dealt Most of them in jail, probably there cause they Weed crimes, a hell of a lot of the damn cells Stand still, we won't, we tall, we all Brave enough, to say is enough, so come on Shit, ain't to tell, take a little look around Feel like everyone in either black or they brown And it's kind of for me to be, all black and proud But I been in the damn system, seen my go down the wretched 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 life, you heard, stay away from them cops And your word and your balls, is all you got