You have the emergence in society Of this thing called the State What is the State? The State is this organized It is the department, it is the Army, the Navy
It is the prison system, the and what have you This is the State it is a repressive But the and gee, well, you know you've got to have The police because if were no police
Look at what be doing to yourselves You'd be killing each other if there no police But the reality is the police become necessary in society Only at that in human society where it is split Between who have and those who ain't got
I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you how we think Organize the hood under I Ching Red, and green instead of gang bandannas FBI spying on us through the antennas
And them cameras in the streetlight watching society With no respect for the right to privacy I'll take a for the cause like Huey P. While all you fake niggas try to copy Master P I to be free to live
Hey but, they have I need to live Bring the power back to the where the people live I'm sick of for crumbs and filling up the prisons Dying over money and on religion for help
We do for self like ants in a the wealth into a socialist economy A way of life based off the common And all my comrades are ready, we just spreading the
The black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the is controlled by the white male And the people never get justice And the women never get respected
And the problems never get solved And the jobs never pay enough So the rent always be Can you relate? We in a Police State
No more bondage, no more political No more secret space Government started it in the projects Material objects, up in the closets
Could've invested in a future for my comrades Battle contacts, weapons out in combat Many never come back, niggas be running with gats Rather get shot in they back than back, we tired of that
Corporations hiring blacks, denying the us all over the map That's why I the shit, I write in my raps documented, I'm in it Everyday of the week I in it, breathing it
It's more than fucking believing it I'm holding in ones, rolling up my an' shit Cee-lo for push-ups, now Many for one conclusion Niggas ain't for revolution
The black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 'Cause the is controlled by the white male And the people don' never get And the don' never get respected
And the don' never get solved And the jobs never pay enough So the rent always be Can you relate? We living in a State
That's right that me Brought me and worked me like an animal the political economy off my stolen labor Made them rich, made me
The average black male live a third of his life in a jail 'Cause the world is controlled by the male And the people don' never get And the women never get respected
And the problems never get solved And the jobs don' never pay So the rent be late Can you We living in a police state
Why is it that black people and everybody us Live in the kind of poverty and misery we live in? Everywhere I look around me are nothing but and misery On the one hand and yet, what I'm seeing is
Everywhere there's and riches in the world It's in the white community Whether it's in Europe or whether it's cross the Street from I was born