[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, throw away the key They're free to move across the sea, you even free Still awaiting retrials, for 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 buildings got When you live without shit, go head and worship cars The vista from the stoops, Marine billboards, you And on the block, you got bars, drug and whores Father might be gone, or working two jobs Stay at home's an oxymoron, moms working too kids, no role models, no guidance No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get into some
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 them 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 country of ours, see this world of ours Was never really yours, we 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, except one guy And was just, one story, told a bunch of damn times On the real, call this the hint of a problem And when I say shit's a problem it's not industry jargon The I'm causing, gonna have the CIA watching I've seen them the damn picture, I bleed for the orphans The sick and the starving, the lost ones, stuck no options awesome, like pulling people straight out of their coffins See we know, it's just us, no in this bitch Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever rich
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 and your balls, is all that you got
3] So what we do, that's the question of course A lot of human beings, over these thoughts You got the Rules for Radicals, The Activist I threw it all away, let's create our own There are locked up here, than anywhere else Plus, most of them on drug charges, most never Most of them in jail, probably there cause they Weed crimes, fill a hell of a lot of the cells still, we won't, we stand tall, we all Brave enough, to say enough is enough, so on Shit, ain't hard to tell, take a little look Feel like everyone in prison's black or they brown And it's 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 anybody ask, I pay tax and smoke
x2 They come with they cars, and they laws, and they come at you sideways, no way you'll get off And your whole life, you heard, stay from them cops And your word and your balls, is all you got