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[Verse 1: AWKWORD]
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They just stop them and frisk, you better move real lightly
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I heard they got a contest, ask Bill O'Reilly
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Afraid you'll get locked up, they'll throw away the key
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They're free to move across the sea, you ain't even free
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Still awaiting retrials, for drug deals, in New York
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Overcrowded Louisiana, California it's sport
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Chicago is a wasteland, even colder in the summer
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No education, programs, now they murdering each other
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Born into prisons, most ghetto buildings got bars
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When you live without shit, go head and worship them cars
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The vista from the stoops, Marine billboards, you bored
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And on the block, you got bars, drug dealers and whores
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Father might be gone, or he's working two jobs
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Stay at home's an oxymoron, moms working too hard
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Latchkey kids, no role models, no guidance
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No homework, eat some Mickey Ds and get into some violence
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[Hook: AWKWORD] x2
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They come with they cars, and they laws, and they bars
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They come at you sideways, no way you'll get off
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And your whole life, you heard, stay away from them cops
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And your word and your balls, is all that you got
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[Verse 2]
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I'm sorry Mr. President, I'm sorry Mr. Senator
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I'm sorry Mr. Governor, we can't, recover her
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See this country of ours, see this world of ours
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Was never really yours, we just got a little bored
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Nowadays, you got to deal, with all breeds, of all types
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I guess you, the type right, to type right, all uptight
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Pause, none of us is goblins, except that one guy
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And that was just, one story, told a bunch of damn times
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On the real, call this the first hint of a problem
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And when I say some shit's a problem it's not industry jargon
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The problem I'm causing, gonna have the CIA watching
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I've seen them take the damn picture, I bleed for the orphans
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The sick and the starving, the lost ones, stuck with no options
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It's awesome, like pulling people straight out of their coffins
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See we know, it's just us, no justice in this bitch
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Rest in peace Ron Arm, forever Elementary rich
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[Hook] x2
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[Verse 3]
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So what we gonna do, that's the question of course
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A lot of human beings, struggled over these thoughts
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You got the Rules for Radicals, The Activist Handbook
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I threw it all away, let's create our own standard
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There are more locked up here, than anywhere else
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Plus, most of them on drug charges, most never dealt
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Most of them in jail, probably there cause they smelt
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Weed crimes, fill a hell of a lot of the damn cells
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Stand still, we won't, we stand tall, we all
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Brave enough, to say enough is enough, so come on
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Shit, ain't hard to tell, take a little look around
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Feel like everyone in prison's either black or they brown
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And it's kind of hard for me to be, all black and proud
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But I been in the damn system, seen my friends go down
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Smell the wretched of the earth, hit me on the low
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And if anybody ask, I pay tax and don't smoke
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[Hook] x2
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