[Verse 1: They just stop them and frisk, you better move real I heard got a contest, ask Bill O'Reilly Afraid get locked 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 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 might be gone, or he's two jobs Stay at an oxymoron, moms 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 they They 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 sorry Mr. President, I'm sorry Mr. I'm sorry Mr. Governor, we can't, her See this country of ours, see this world of Was never really yours, we just got a little 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, told a bunch of times On the real, call this the first hint of a And when I say shit's a problem it's not industry jargon The problem I'm causing, gonna the CIA watching I've seen them take the damn picture, I for the orphans The sick and the starving, the lost ones, with no options It's awesome, like pulling straight out of their coffins See we know, it's just us, no justice in 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 your word and your balls, is all you got
3] So what we gonna do, that's the question of A lot of human beings, struggled over 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 else Plus, most of them on drug charges, never dealt Most of them in jail, probably 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 is enough, so come on Shit, ain't hard to tell, a little look around Feel like everyone in prison's either black or they And kind of hard for me to be, all black and proud But I been in the damn system, my friends go down Smell the 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 they laws, and bars come at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, stay away from them And your word and your balls, is all you got