Police State (feat. Chairman Omali Yeshitela)

You have the emergence in human society

Of this thing that's called the state

What is the state?

The state is this organized bureaucracy

It is the police department

It is the Army, the Navy

It is the prison system, the courts and what have you

This is the State, it is a repressive organization

But the state "And gee, well, you know, you've got to have the police"

"Because if there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves"

"You'd be killing each other if there were no police!"

But the reality is the police become necessary in human society

Only at that junction in human society

Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct

You know how we think

Organize the hood under I Ching banners

Red, Black, and Green instead of gang bandannas

F.B.I. spying on us through the radio antennas

And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watching society

With no respect for the people's right to privacy

I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P

While all you fake **** try to copy Master P

I want to be free to live

Able to have what I need to live

Bring the power back to the street where the people live

I'm sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons

Dying over money and relying on religion for help

We do for self like ants in a colony

Organize the wealth into a socialist economy

A way of life based off the common needs

And all my comrades are ready

We just spreading the seed

The average black male

Live a third of his life in a jail cell

'Cause the world is controlled by the white male

And the people don't never get justice

And the women don't never get respected

And the problems don't never get solved

And the jobs don't never pay enough

So the rent always be late

Can you relate?

We living in a police state

No more bondage, no more political monsters

No more secret space launches

Government departments started it in the projects

Material objects, thousands up in the closets

Could've been invested in a future for my comrades

Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat

Many never come back

Pretty **** be running with gats

Rather get shot in they back than fire back

We tired of that

Corporations hiring Blacks, denying the facts

Exploiting us all over the map

That's why I write the shit I write in my raps

It's documented, I'm in it

Every day of the week I live in it, breathing it

It's more than just fucking believing it

I'm holding M-1's, rolling up my sleeves and shit

It's Cee-lo for push-ups now

Many headed for one conclusion

**** ain't ready for revolution

The average black male

Live a third of his life in a jail cell

'Cause the world is controlled by the white male

And the people don't never get justice

And the women don't never get respected

And the problems don't never get solved

And the jobs don't never pay enough

So the rent always be late

Can you relate?

We living in a police state

I am (I am) a revolutionary

And you're gonna have to keep on sayin' that

You're gonna have to say that "I am a proletariat"

"I am the people"

"I am not the pig"

Giuliani, you are full of shit!

And anybody that's down with you!

You could've made things better for us

And you cuttin' the welfare out

Knowin' damn well, when you cut the welfare out

A person gon' do crime