[Verse 1: They just stop them and frisk, you move real lightly I heard they got a contest, ask Bill Afraid you'll get locked up, they'll throw the key They're free to across the sea, you ain't even free Still awaiting retrials, for drug deals, in New Louisiana, California it's sport Chicago is a wasteland, even colder in the No education, programs, now they each other Born into prisons, most ghetto buildings got When you live without shit, go and worship them cars The vista from the stoops, billboards, you bored And on the block, you got bars, dealers and whores Father might be gone, or he's two jobs Stay at home's an oxymoron, working too hard Latchkey kids, no role models, no No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get into some
AWKWORD] x2 They come with they cars, and they laws, and bars come at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, stay away from cops And your word and your balls, is all you got
2] I'm sorry Mr. President, I'm Mr. Senator I'm sorry Mr. Governor, we can't, her See this country of ours, see this world of Was really 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, none of us is goblins, that one guy And was just, one story, told a bunch of damn 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 I'm causing, gonna have the CIA watching I've seen them take the picture, I bleed for the orphans The sick and the starving, the lost ones, stuck no options It's awesome, like pulling people out of their coffins See we know, it's just us, no in this bitch Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever Elementary
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, away from them cops And your word and balls, is all that you got
3] So we gonna do, that's 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, create our own standard There are more locked up here, than anywhere Plus, most of them on drug charges, most dealt Most of them in jail, probably there 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 is enough, so come on Shit, ain't hard to tell, take a little look Feel like everyone in either black or they brown And it's kind of hard for me to be, all and proud But I been in the damn system, seen my friends go the wretched of the earth, hit me on the low And if anybody ask, I pay tax and don't
x2 They come with they cars, and they laws, and bars They come at you sideways, no way get off And your whole life, you heard, stay away them cops And your word and balls, is all that you got