[Verse 1: They just stop and frisk, you better move real lightly I heard they got a contest, ask Bill Afraid you'll get up, they'll throw away the key They're free to move across the sea, you ain't free Still awaiting retrials, for drug deals, in New Louisiana, California it's sport Chicago is a wasteland, even in the summer No education, programs, now murdering each other Born into prisons, most buildings got bars When you live without shit, go head and worship cars The vista the stoops, Marine billboards, you bored And on the block, you got bars, dealers and whores might be gone, or he's working two jobs Stay at home's an oxymoron, working too hard Latchkey kids, no models, no guidance No homework, eat some Ds and get into some violence
AWKWORD] 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, stay away from cops And your and your balls, is all that you got
2] I'm sorry Mr. President, I'm Mr. Senator I'm Mr. Governor, we can't, recover her See this country of ours, see world of ours Was never really yours, we got a little bored Nowadays, you got to deal, all breeds, of all types 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 damn On the real, call this the first hint of a And when I say some shit's a problem not industry jargon The problem I'm causing, gonna have the CIA seen them take the damn picture, I bleed for the orphans The sick and the starving, the lost ones, stuck with no It's awesome, like pulling straight out of their coffins See we know, just us, no justice in this bitch Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever Elementary
x2 They come they cars, and they laws, and they bars They come at you sideways, no way get off And whole life, you heard, stay away from 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 Activist I threw it all away, let's our own standard There are more locked up here, than anywhere Plus, most of them on charges, most never dealt of them in jail, probably there cause they smelt Weed crimes, a hell of a lot of the damn cells still, we won't, we stand tall, we all Brave enough, to say enough is enough, so on Shit, hard to tell, take a little look around Feel everyone in prison's either black or they brown And kind of hard for me to be, all black and proud But I in the damn system, seen my friends go down the wretched of the earth, hit me on the low And if ask, I pay tax and don't smoke
x2 They come with they cars, and laws, and they bars They at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, stay from them cops And your and your balls, is all that you got