Letras
The police the same way... they put their club upside your head
And then turn around and accuse you of attacking them
Every case of police brutality against
A Negro follows the same pattern
I tell you what I pledge allegiance to the people not the flag
The flag will never represent the people
'Til we all considered equal in the eyes of the law
Rich or poor, officers kill blacks with no remorse
Then ask what we're doin' it for
And wonder why the innocent ain't even snitchin' for 'em
You just as dangerous as criminals so pick your poison
Part of the problem that refuses to relate
Turn the hood to a trap very few can escape
Like the word that precedes it, labor
But if it ain't the cops it's somebody else's neighborhood watch
As the money turns your block from hot
To the new hot spot now it's someone else's neighborhood
Watch how police get along with them
The storm troopers think the whole hood is truant
Unless it's affluent but even if you fluent
In the language of the law with stacks of greenbacks
You can't reply or buyout the fact
If you're black there's a target on your back
Your front, your side, they blow down your front door
Where you reside, air out your ride
Whether hooptie or coupe, your hoodie or your suit
You're ugly or you're cute
A dentist or a son with a scholarship to hoop
Colin Powell or Snoop
Hands on the steering wheel, throw 'em for a loop
Hands up, wallet out, screamin' don't shoot
Without even so much as an oops
Armed to the teeth like troops
Fully automatic
Patrolling the war zones that we call home
Unless I'm breaking the law, leave me the fuck alone
In America, black people are treated very much as Vietnamese people
Or any other colonized people
Because we're used, we're brutalized
The police in our community occupy our area, our community
As a foreign troop occupies territory
And the police are there not to, in our community
Not to promote our welfare or for our security or our safety
But they're there to contain us, to brutalize us and murder us
Because they have their orders to do so
How you gonna serve and protect
A beat on a street that you don't even respect
Blaming the neglect on the neglected
Confounding the cause for the affected
Children, women and men subjected
To stop and frisk, puts pride and lives at risk
Heartbeats on pause if not stopped and probable cause
Is probably 'cause we black and y'all cops
No apologies, but apologists say not all police
Shhh, please when you're treated less than human by a beast
It doesn't matter if it's the whole beast or nothing but the beast
If it's systemic, pandemic
And you don't even have the decency to condemn it
It's bullshit, good constable
If I was hiding behind the same shield I should feel responsible
But when a black child of God is dead and you're dead wrong
Why you only able to respond defensive?
For beatin' the defenseless, senseless
When we mourn and protest pursuit is relentless
But what about pursuit of justice?
What happened to the people versus?
When it's police versus people like us
Victims are discussed with disdain and disgust
Fear, hate and distrust
Hard to win hearts and minds
When you lose 'em and you break 'em at the same damn time
How many hearts and minds and bodies are confined
Just for being indicted of the same exact crime
But can't afford the kind of defense
That's unionized, weaponized and never repents
The standards are devil-like sentences
Like what the fourth, eighth and thirteenth amendment is
Did you forget 'cause the facts don't add up to the stats
When the deck and the dice and the dealer is loaded and stacked
So when I say I am a black man or simply I am a man
You had me at black
The police in our community couldn't possibly be there
To protect our property because we own no property
They couldn't possibly be there to see
That we receive the due process of law
For the simple reason that the police
Themselves deny us the due process of law
And so it's very apparent that the police are only in our community
Not for our security but for the security
Of the business owners in the community
And also to see that the status quo is kept intact
They attack the victim
And then the criminal who attacked the victim
Accuses the victim of attacking him
This is American justice
This is American democracy
And those of you who are familiar with it
Know that in America, democracy is hypocrisy