You know they got me in this prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the is a delusion Even a smooth criminal one day must get up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' about what the streets do to me
'Cause they never talk peace in the community All we know is violence, do the job in Walk the city streets like a rat of tyrants Too many daily heading for the big pen commin' out worse off then when they went in Over the years I done a lot of up Gettin' drunk up up Then I I had enough must be another route, way out To money and fame, I changed my And played a game Tired of being trapped in vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I just might go And I get 'em hit 'em with the bum rush Only a would like to see his skull crushed Yo, if your you'll really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in ghetto and catch the Uzi They got me
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they keep the black man down)
They got me Can barely walk the city Without a cop me, searching me Then my identity up, throw me up against the wall Didn't do a at all I'm tellin' you one day these suckers fall Cuffed up me on the concrete try to kill me But they didn't know this was the wrong Bang bang, another casualty But it's a cop who's shot there's Who do you It's a shame because the mans He got caught in the chains of his own How can I feel guilty all the things they did to me me, hunted me Trapped in my own One day I'm bust Blow up on this Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me like a slave while they back Homie don't that It's time I lett 'em the payback I'm tryin' to physical contact I can't hold back, time to attack jack They got me
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
Now I'm trapped and want to a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay Can't use the 'Cause I'm sure someone is in Did it Ain't to use my gat again I back at hindsight the fight was irrelevant But now he's the friend Too late to be him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away Homie is done I should of put my gun away I thinkin' all I heard was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is you" I fired my Started steppin' in the I got so I dropped a burst of pain Got to my Couldn't see but bloody blood Now I'm a to be hunted like a murderer Ran through an Still for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or be dead today in a corner Dark and I see the light Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a better do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd die then be trapped in a living hell They got me
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) You know they got me (Naw, they can't the black man down)