X] Being here in America doesn't you an American Being born here in America doesn't make you an Why if birth you an American you wouldn't need any legislation You wouldn't need any amendments to the I don't see any dream, I see an American nightmare I'm one of the 42 million black people who are the of America
Aiyyo we all in now, all in together now truth soldierin, hard truth soldier SHIT Keep on 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my Chevy the streets of New York, they feel me I grip, and hit up the spot Snatch Flav as my dual pipes up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy On the street hear my beat, my 69 is fast Smash down Lennox, head up to the Some reporter wanna holla and I said it was Wanna know about the and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla Funk is keepin it Breakin bread politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty we murder for dough the reporter asked a question, that I had to mash How, I would act if day was maybe my last How if every day I worried 'bout my family in I'd be murdered on these in a puddle of piss Or if I would get news that my brother had died If they ran up in my and held my kids and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody all our thangs If my sister was abducted, never from again I to compare it, so he could observe When I made the parallels with how they livin I can't ignore it, these ride deep in the streets Cap a nigga for his wallet, beat another for And the cold part about it, life is cheaper that Down there people on the bottom kill each for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the confused Damned by the that keep 'em subdued I been the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same ghetto birds at night Same racism, profilin of us all outsiders where we live enforcin the law Gats on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same prisons full of herded in like sheep Same that'll burn folks for pay Same in communities we die everyday Same brutality and ignorance, now what will it to break the cycle, get the people away? why I'm fresh out of tears for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my heart out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for but, what about home? When the way we live is shitty where's the for our own? I can't decide it, it's real, I hit you proof Maybe I'll be cause I hit you with truth See they kill for less what we say on records to you the message in the music from a rebel to you, now listen
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