You know they got me trapped in this prison of Happiness, living on the streets is a a smooth criminal one day must get caught Shot up or shot down with the that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about the streets do to me
'Cause they never talk peace in the black All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the streets like a rat pack of tyrants Too many brothers heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off when they went in Over the years I done a lot of up Gettin' thrown' up up Then I said I had must be another route, way out To money and fame, I my name And played a game of being trapped in this vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I might go psycho And I get 'em I'll hit 'em the bum rush a lunatic would like to see his skull crushed Yo, if smart you'll really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in this ghetto and the Uzi got me trapped
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
They got me Can barely walk the city Without a cop harassing me, me Then asking my Hands up, throw me up against the Didn't do a at all I'm you one day these suckers gotta fall Cuffed up me on the concrete Coppers try to me But didn't know this was the wrong street Bang bang, another casualty But it's a cop who's shot brutality Who do you It's a shame the mans slain He got caught in the of his own game How can I feel guilty after all the they did to me Sweated me, me in my own community One day I'm bust up on this society Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me a slave while they laid back Homie don't play It's I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid physical I can't hold back, it's time to attack got me trapped
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
Now I'm trapped and to find a getaway All I need is a 'G' and somewhere to stay use the phone 'Cause I'm sure someone is in Did it Ain't scared to use my gat I look back at hindsight the was irrelevant But now he's the devils Too to be tellin' him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I thinkin' all I heard was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn is dissin' you" I fired my Started steppin' in the I got so I dropped Feelin' a burst of Got to my see nothin' but bloody blood Now I'm a fugitive to be hunted a murderer Ran through an Still lookin' for my Coppers Freeze, or you'll be dead today Trapped in a Dark and I couldn't see the in my mind was the nine and a better life do I do? Live my life in a prison I'd rather die then be trapped in a living They got me
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) You they got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the man down)