X] Being in America doesn't make you an American Being born here in America doesn't make you an 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 black people who are the victims of America
Aiyyo we all in now, all in together now Hard truth soldierin, hard truth soldier on servin 'em, cause you know we do work Mashin in my down the streets of New York, they feel me I smooth grip, and hit up the Snatch Flav as my dual pipes burn up the We bumpin hardcore, heavyweight, blast On the street they my beat, my 69 is fast down Lennox, head up to the 'View Some reporter wanna holla and I it was cool know about the album and the Enemy's new How P.E. and Funk is keepin it movin Breakin bread politics, you know how it go 'Bout the war and how it's shitty we murder for dough Then the reporter asked a question, I had to mash How, I act if every day was maybe my last How if day I worried 'bout my family in this I'd be murdered on these street in a of piss Or if I would get some that my brother had died If ran up in my house and held 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 When I made the parallels with how they livin 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 cheaper that Down there people on the bottom kill each other for Imagine that, propoganda got the confused Damned by the that keep 'em subdued I been around the world, seen a lot of shit in my Same sirens, same ghetto swirlin at night racism, profilin each of us all Same outsiders where we live the law Gats clappin on the streets, with heat Same prisons full of brothers herded in 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? That's why I'm out of tears for 'em, all out of tears for 'em Even though my goes out, what the fuck you cryin 'bout? Money for but, what about home? When the way we live is shitty where's the love for our I can't decide it, it's real, I hit you with Maybe be suicided cause I hit you with truth See kill for less than what we say on records to you Hear the message in the music a rebel to you, now listen
x6 to end] Save my life you gotta, save my life you gotta us, save us