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Prisoner 1 & 2
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Lupe Fiasco
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Produced By: MoeZ'art
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feat. Ayesha Jaco
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[Prisoner 1 starts here]
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[Intro]
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Pre-paid collect call from [?], an inmate at [?] correctional center. This call is subject to recording and monitoring
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To accept charges, press 1
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To reduce charges, press 2
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If you would like to permanently block your number from receiving calls from this facility, press 6
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For balance and rate quotes, press 7
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*button press*
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Thank you for using Securus. You may start the conversation now
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[Fela Kuti]
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King... We are kings of African music, we are kings. Because music...is the king of all professions
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No music
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[Verse 1]
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Mislaid plan make a mess made
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Damnation, let's play hands and spades
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That's without, a boycott and a sit-out
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Afro-Black pick in with a fist out
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From the "welcome home" to the kick out
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Reach into a rabbit, pull a trick out
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Preacher preaching to a faggot with his dick out
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Hard times call for [?] time
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Sick, sick, sick eyes from the nose pressure
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Police snip, zip ties on the protesters
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Six wives in the fry of a molester
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Met him at a caviar bar out in Odessa
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Dirty needles breaking all the old records
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A hundred hoes, one shovel and some old treasure
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[?] use thief as a gold tester
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Finger rolls, finger waves, closet full of old leathers
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Old sweaters, old boots, that's a whole suit for some cold weather
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New sale, two L's and some old letters
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Now he doing double life, while she lead a double life
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Man, he need another wife
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New approach might help a nigga bowl better
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New hoes might help a nigga hold together
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Or will the new lane lead em' to the same pen
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And the hunger strike in em' to the same tin
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[Hook 1]
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Love is looking over various errors
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And hate is habitually accelerating terror
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[?] I just wanna' be collected when I call God damn
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I don't wanna' be accepted; not as all as I am
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Visitor, visitor, prisoner, prisoner, land
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[Verse 2]
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Getting slammed from the protest, no food
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Force fed him like OB with a nose tube
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Visions say consult the yogi with the gold shoes
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With the Rollie going bowling for the old school
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I need more for the Michaels
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That's a loss for the class, and a score for the rifles
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Three hots and a cot, and some cops
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Trying to find dinosaurs in the Bible
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It's all quiet in the jail-house
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Then they ride in to find the empty cells out
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They was looking for the swords, they was looking for the swords
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I'm just looking at they feet, cause I'm looking for the lord
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Looking in the library, looking at the law
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10 years deep, now I'm looking at the bar
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[?] sovereignty, because I'm hooking with the [?]
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They degenerate, they ain't looking at the game
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They just looking at the scores, they be putting on my books
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Cause I'm looking at the stars, trade a shank for some crank
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Now I'm looking at a war, BGF got the yard
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AV got the kitchen snitches on PC
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Eminem on a mission, but CO's got the prison
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God got us all, God set us free
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God is the key, but the guards got the doors
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[Hook]
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[Verse 3]
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Punching on the glass, stare at some killer
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Might fuck him in the ass
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Staff getting rigid, wasn't gonna take away the visits
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Segregate niggas by theyself and make 'em stay with it
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Wicked, swung the shank around on a mop string
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They had to pull him out the cell with a SWAT Team
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That's a cop team, they sent hella cops, to stop, the helicoptering
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Man, he thought that he'd fly away, like a kite, take flight
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Like a letter on a string, like propellers on a wing
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But they can't find the key
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They made electric chairs for his dying days
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Last meals, no appeals for him to try and stay
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On Death Row like Suge and the late Pac
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Maybe he could dig a tunnel out of A Block
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And wear gloves for the razor-wired gate top
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Scared thugs going crazy in a caged box
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Looking at the world through the TV
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And they gone, rapping over beats from the tabletops
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Ay! That's how it is in a police state
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When your life is just a number and release date
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When you're rehabilitated so correctly
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And let's hope that's how you're living when you're set free
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[Hook]
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[Prisoner 1 ends]
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[Prisoner 2 begins here]
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[Intro ]
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To accept charges, press 1
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To reduce charges, press 2
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If you would like to permanently block your number from receiving calls from this facility, press 6
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For balance and rate quotes, press 7
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*button press*
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Thank you for using Securus. You may start the conversation now
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[Bridge: Ayesha Jaco]
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[?] of the new Jim Crow are [?] clansmen, [?], and court papers
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Dreadlocks [?] to hang from his neck as new Jim Crow
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Corporations feed him seeds yet unborn
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He'll be captured by Mya[?], in a ruby-encrusted cage
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I see the light at the end of the tunnel, and answers that I leave in empty pages to be written. Where is your pen? The new Jim Crow
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(The new Jim Crow)x2
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[Verse 4]
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They sell they souls
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They sell their selves
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They ain't twelve, they old
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Niggas old as hell
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Old as jail, old as cells
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Sold so much salt, ain't no more salt on the shelves
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You a prisoner too, you living here too
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You just like us, til' your shift get through
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You could look like us, you know shit get through
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You should be in cuffs like us, you should get strike 2
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You should get like life, you should get like woo!
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You should get that twice! You should get refused
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The open road, that's no parole, and no control
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Over your own soul, so control, your own remote control, that your folks can hold
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[Hook]x2
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You better watch these niggas (un garde)
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If it was up to me, I would never unlock these niggas
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Wouldn't rehabilitate, man, I would just box these niggas and throw away the key, I'd throw away the key like the coast guard watching me
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(I'd throw away the keys)x3
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Better watch these niggas (un guarde)
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[Verse 5]
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5th year with the DOC
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You can see what's COC
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Robocop opt his COP
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3 hots and a C-O-T
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Lived in a small town, his whole life
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Never left like [?]
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Either working at the prison, or it's no lights
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In the system working with the pol-ice
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In the prison stripping niggas for rights
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Got a malice, on the other side of the bars
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Watching niggas get smart, watching niggas get strong
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Watching niggas get home, he jealous
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But deep down he jealous
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With each sweep down, he tell us
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With each peep down, he help us
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Wrong one gon' knock his ass out though
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It's why he gotta lock all the niggas out for
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Warden told the boy he better calm down
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Step back from the brink and put the bomb down
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But how the whole world in your palm sound?
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It's why they treat niggas like shit
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Writing raps to the taps, keep the face [?] on your knees cause these niggas might snap![?]
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[Hook]
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[Prisoner 2 ends]
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