Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Yes
We're here to talk about
Those who are considered to be an elected official
Who said it was official
That when they was elected
That everything that they dealt with
Had me in mind
As a human being, as a man
But not as a slave or three fifths human
I have the right to bear arms
What makes you think I respect you?
[Verse 2]
Hello Mr. President, residents of the White House
Excuse me, I'd like to know
Have you ever enjoyed an old-time gangster movie?
With the white man ringing shots on blocks
With their clean shave and pin stripe suits?
Bootlegging, whiskey raping black women and having a fat stack of loot
Undercover David Duke
Isn't it true the gangster movement started long before my time?
Long before the hair rag
Gangster sag, finger signs, and love for nines?
Damn, in your minds and in your hearts
Is the hate really that deep
What's truly going on?
Knocking me for the words I write
For writing movie scripts by whites like Mr. Al Capone
[Verse 3]
Yeah, America
A land that made Christopher Columbus
A historian for bringing madmen
White slaves and rapists
Kennedy, his dad was a bootlegger for Al Capone
Became President
Isn't it evident
That those who sit in the resident
Are not President?
[Verse 4]
Now oh, why you want to try to knock me 'cause I'm black?
Got a Gat, twist my hat and all
Listen to Mr. Scarface think about the way
The government wants to hold us back
As a matter of fact
I believe the whole system is a huge crime scene
And everyday they're doing the dirty work
And laying it on us ****, if you know what I mean
So don't corrupt your own minds, fooling yourself
Trying to lay it on the black man
I'm a young G, trying to leave poverty
With a gat in my black hand
So white heathen, taken straight out of the crate
Of a mouth of a babe
Yeah, a honkey can't stop what a honkey started
And the ghetto's what you honkeys made
[Verse 5]
That's right, sitting up there in the White House
With your homosexual mentalities and female persuasions
Yeah, I'm talking to all the J. Edgar Hoovers
That are still left in there
All the big brothers that are watching
I hope you're listening
'Cause the bad shit you put on criminals
Have made the citizens take control
[Verse 6]
Now Sergeant hit you, get with you
Let's get back to the issue
Continue dissing my way of living
So a little **** like me gots to go and diss you
This mission hoping that the message that I'm sending
Gets through to you and your people
Devil, look at your own dirty past
Before you come to me with your blue-eyed evil
If I kill thirty innocent
Would you write a movie about me and spare
My life, or would you lock me up with triple life
And strap me down in the electric chair?
See, it's not about the sign I throw up
Or where I roam
Or what a **** wear
See cracker, it's all about respect for your hood
Your clique, and all of those whose pain which you share
[Verse 7]
That's right, pain
The pain that I feel
Is the pain from shame
The shame that you've caused to me
For over four hundred years of protection
The pain that I have within me
The rage that is flaming
Makes me want to say the things that I say
Do the things that I do
And let you know
That when you look at me
Or look down at me
Or look across from your side
Of the world to my side
That what you have failed to realize
Is that you've put me in projects
I realize it was an experiment
So when you put me in jail
I realize I just made it through the maze
I'm just another rat that made my cheese
And you couldn't stand it
But what can all the big cats do
When all the rats want to get fat
But try to cut down on the cheese
What you don't realize is that you're
Jerking yourself
Killing your own existence
You're all walking dead men
Who don't know it
With book sense and street dense
But if you had street intelligence
You would really know
That you're one footstep between life and death
That the mouth is a open grave
And you've offered me the right
To elect you to a bullet
Which is a straight shot to the top, right?
And what goes up must come down
That's why it's going down right now
You can smell the smoke
See the flames
And see the bodies that are left on the ground
Because the flag
Red, white, and blue
And the stars from all the years
That you've whipped me and mine
I still see
Written by: Shawn Phillips