[Verse 1: They just stop them and frisk, you better move lightly I heard they got a contest, ask Bill Afraid you'll get locked up, they'll throw the key They're free to move across the sea, you ain't free Still retrials, for drug deals, in New York Overcrowded Louisiana, California it's Chicago is a wasteland, even in the summer No education, programs, now they each other Born into prisons, most buildings got bars When you live shit, go head and worship them cars The vista from the stoops, Marine billboards, you And on the block, you got bars, drug and whores Father might be gone, or he's working two Stay at home's an oxymoron, moms too hard Latchkey kids, no role models, no No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get into violence
AWKWORD] 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 from cops And word and your balls, is all that 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 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 type right, to right, all uptight Pause, none of us is goblins, that one guy And that was just, one story, told a bunch of times On the real, this the first hint of a problem And when I say some shit's a it's not industry jargon The I'm causing, gonna have the CIA watching I've seen them take the picture, I bleed for the orphans The and the starving, the lost ones, stuck with no options It's awesome, like pulling straight out of their coffins See we know, just us, no justice in this bitch Rest in Ron Arm, forever Elementary rich
x2 They come with they cars, and laws, and they bars They at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your life, you heard, stay 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 these thoughts You got the Rules for Radicals, The Handbook I threw it all away, create our own standard There are more locked up here, anywhere else Plus, most of them on drug charges, most dealt of them in jail, probably there cause they smelt Weed crimes, fill a 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 to tell, take a little look around Feel like everyone in prison's either or they brown And kind of hard 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 they cars, and they laws, and bars They at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, stay away from them And your and your balls, is all that you got