X] Being here in America doesn't make you an born here in America doesn't make you an American Why if birth made you an you wouldn't need any legislation You need any amendments to the Constitution I see any American dream, I see an American nightmare I'm one of the 42 million people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in together now, all in now Hard soldierin, hard truth soldier SHIT on servin 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, feel me I grip, and hit up the spot Flav as my dual pipes burn up the block We hardcore, heavyweight, b-boy blast On the they hear my beat, my 69 is fast Smash Lennox, head up to the 'View Some reporter wanna holla and I it was cool Wanna about the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla Funk is keepin it Breakin bread talkin politics, you how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty that we murder for Then the reporter asked a question, that I had to How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if every day I worried my family in this I'd be murdered on these in a puddle of piss Or if I would get some news that my brother had If they ran up in my house and my kids and my wife Or if we was looted and took all our thangs If my sister was abducted, heard from again I to compare it, so he could observe I made the parallels with how they livin abroad I can't ignore it, these pigs ride deep in the Cap a for his wallet, beat another for free And the cold part about it, is cheaper than that Down there people on the bottom kill each for scraps Imagine that, propoganda got the people Damned by the that keep 'em subdued I been around the world, seen a lot of in my life Same sirens, same ghetto swirlin at night Same racism, each of us all Same outsiders where we enforcin the law Gats clappin on the streets, gunplayin heat Same prisons full of brothers herded in like Same turncoats that'll burn for pay Same in communities we die everyday Same brutality and ignorance, now what will it to break the motherfuckin cycle, get the away? That's why I'm fresh out of for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my heart goes out, what the you cryin 'bout? Money for rebuilding but, about home? When the way we live is shitty where's the for our own? I decide it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe I'll be cause I hit you with truth See they for less than what we say on records to you Hear the message in the from a rebel to you, now listen
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