X] Being here in America doesn't make you an Being born 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 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 Hard truth soldierin, truth soldier SHIT Keep on servin 'em, you know we do work Mashin in my Chevy down the streets of New York, they me I smooth grip, and hit up the Snatch Flav as my pipes burn up the block We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, blast On the street they my beat, my 69 is fast Smash down Lennox, head up to the Some reporter wanna holla and I said it was know about the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Guerilla is keepin it movin Breakin bread talkin politics, you how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty we murder for dough Then the reporter a question, that I had to mash 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 street in a puddle of Or if I would get news that my brother had died If they ran up in my house and held my and my wife Or if we was looted and somebody took all our If my sister was abducted, never heard again I began to compare it, so he could When I made the parallels with how they abroad I can't it, these pigs ride deep in the streets Cap a nigga for his wallet, another for free And the cold part about it, life is than that Down people on the bottom kill each other for scraps Imagine that, got the people confused Damned by the media that 'em subdued I around the world, seen a lot of shit in my life Same sirens, same birds swirlin at night Same racism, profilin of us all Same where we live enforcin the law clappin on the streets, gunplayin with heat Same full of brothers herded in like sheep Same turncoats burn folks for pay conditions 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, the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for but, what about home? the way we live is shitty where's the love for our own? I can't it, it's real, I hit you with proof Maybe I'll be suicided cause I hit you truth See they kill for than what we say on records to you Hear the message in the music a rebel to you, now listen
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