| I take the needle off the record
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| and shove it in my arm
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| whenever I feel life is comin’on too strong
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| they left me in a clinic fulla
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| cynical motha fuckin’bureaucrats
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| and other kinda ding bats
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| Livin on the tracks
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| the tracks in my arm said
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| it all depends which side the tracks your on.
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| tellin’me what to wear
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| tellin me cut my hair
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| and tryin to convince me that they
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| really really care
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| all about my health and about my wealth
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| but still they built the Stealth
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| 'cause everybody’s
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| just lookin out for they self
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| So then I ask 'em
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| can I have a clean needle
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| Hell no that’s illegal!
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| 'Cause it’s a crime to be broke in America!
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| and it’s a crime to smoke dank in America!
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| Yeah hit those drums now
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| they lockin’brother’s in the poorhouse
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| who can’t afford Moorhouse
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| politicians nervous
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| it’s the only free service they provide
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| you wanna go inside
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| there’s a hot meal waitin’for ya a deal we can score ya on a bed for a night or two
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| or three or four months.
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| They say they lockin’us up in cells
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| to protect us from ourselves
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| it smells like they got anotha
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| plan in store house
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| or should I say warehouse
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| fulla niggas and other misfits
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| that couldn’t turn tricks in the courthouse
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| it’s a justice whorehouse
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| It’s a crime to be broke in America!
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| and it’s a crime to be Black in America!
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| But there’s a mutiny on the bounty
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| in ever single county
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| we remember Attica
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| but don’t forget to pat a few
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| other on the back as a matter of fact
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| sister Asatta Shakur and Geronimo Pratt
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| 'cause Amnesty international
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| is fightin’for political
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| but if your analytical
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| you know it’s much more critical than that
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| percentages black is really, really whack
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| can I kick a few facts yes?
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| Sx percent in college
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| from livin on the block
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| twenty five percent in prison
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| the school of hard knocks
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| fifty percent in poverty
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| is livin on the rocks
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| five hundred brothas on a death row box
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| The punishment is capital
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| for those who lack in capital
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| because a public defender
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| can’t remember the last time
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| that a brother wasn’t treated like an animal.
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| They say they blame it on a song
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| when someone kills a cop
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| what music did they listen to when they bombed Iraq?
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| give me one example so I can take a sample
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| no need to play it backwards
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| if you wanna hear the devil
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| cause music’s not the problem
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| it didn’t cause the bombin'
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| but maybe they should listen
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| to the songs of people starving.
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| 'Cause it’s a Crime to be broke in America!
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| it’s a crime to smoke dank in America!
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| it’s a crime to be black in America!
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| it’s a crime to be black in America!
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| it’s a crime to be Puerto Rican
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| African
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| Native American
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| Asian Hatian
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| a Woman |