You know they got me trapped in prison of seclusion Happiness, on the streets is a delusion Even a smooth criminal one day must get Shot up or shot down with the bullet that he millimeter kickin' thinking about what the streets do to me
'Cause they never peace in the black community All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the city like a rat pack of tyrants Too many daily heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off when they went in Over the years I done a lot of up Gettin' drunk up up Then I said I had There be another route, way out To money and fame, I my name And a different game Tired of being trapped in vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I just go psycho And I get 'em I'll hit 'em with the bum a lunatic would like to see his skull crushed Yo, if your smart really let me go 'G' But me cooped up in this ghetto and catch the Uzi They got me
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) They got me (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
They got me Can barely walk the streets Without a cop harassing me, me asking my identity Hands up, throw me up against the do a thing at all I'm you one day these suckers gotta fall up throw me on the concrete Coppers try to me But they didn't know this was the wrong Bang bang, down another But it's a cop who's there's brutality Who do you It's a shame the mans slain He got caught in the chains of his own How can I feel guilty all the things they did to me Sweated me, me Trapped in my own One day I'm gonna Blow up on this Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't a trace of equality Work me a slave while they laid back don't play that It's I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid physical I can't hold back, it's time to attack They got me
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
Now I'm trapped and to find a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay use the phone 'Cause I'm sure someone is in Did it Ain't to use my gat again I look back at the fight was irrelevant But now he's the friend Too to be tellin' him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is you" I fired my steppin' in the hurricane I got shot so I a burst of pain Got to my see nothin' but bloody blood Now I'm a to be hunted like a murderer Ran an alley lookin' for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or you'll be today in a corner Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a life do I do? Live my in a prison cell I'd rather die then be in a living hell got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) You they got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down)