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weight damn near breaking my legs
Any chance of change i collect
Reinvest my pain in my pen
This pent up frustrations a debt
This systems a cycle of sin

I just wanna, ah
I need good news, yeah
Aye, I need soul food, yeah
What, I just wanna
Look
Ever since May when I saw sirens
And the boys in the blue

I hit a nerve with one of my songs
It has to do with incarceration in the United States
And the inherent racism in our judicial system
And much

Another black man in America
Dead in the streets by the hands of police
I can’t even tell you what is scarier
They sworn to protect but they leave my

Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food
Clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that
That philosophising

the youths dem born
GMO food a farm
Depopulate with biological weapon
Pandemic plan to systematic racism
We tell them we can’t breathe and
Yet no one is

the noose eat the corporation food instead of eating fruits evidence confirms that we living among terestrial sperm and we are not included in this truce

I walk in the store
Try to buy my family food
They follow me I call them out
And somehow I'm the one who's rude
My father served the nation
So me I

Everyone got their own demons
Doing an evil thing for dumb reasons

What is love?
What is love?
What is love?

Can't believe racism  exists in this century

the system's screwing everyone exactly the same
I just wanna spend Thanksgiving Day with food and my family
Without being accused of celebrating native

Slumdog millionaire my father really made it out the sand
God bless grandma she stash it in the living room
No food till the day came ripped the couch
No

harder than most, people selling to float
To keep their head above water, eventually they go ghost
We're living in a museo, I know I said it before

black the story of my life
That's why they told me take the program
No faith in the system to do right
Though evidence suggest my charge a scam
I can't

of buying healthy food, we buy new phones
It's time to do the work, and look within
Uplifting one another is how we'll win
Learn the system, learn how

we can enforce some reconstruction
Before we blow up self destruction
They've consumed us digested
Made food out of us splendid
Dipped us in tea we're

of spinach
I'm not here for your opinions
They just all get omitted

I'm just doing my auditions
Storytelling in just minutes
It's a given I'm great, all I

From the Cradle to the Grave

Subhumans

From the Cradle to the Grave

1983

Animals don't wear uniforms but they kill as much as you
But the army kills for money and animals kill for food
It's the basest degradation in the name

Tired of Being Stepped On

The Click

Down and Dirty

1994

gotta compete so 
But you can't beat no case 

When you're trapped in the system 
The government, want you to diss them 
Now I'm back on the bed,

much envy
System fully against me
I try not to complain while my breath leaves
Maybe this is destiny
From conception to rest in peace
I shouldn't expect

None of That

Killah Priest

Exorcist

2009

In large U.S. cities
Millions of people live a life of poverty in old rundown apartment dwellings
The poor tenants trapped in these buildings
Must

the climate, we're not united, and I don't like that 
Racism on Asians in states getting more violent 
Found out some parents didn't retain elementary knowledge

the climate, we're not united, and I don't like that
Racism on Asians in states getting more violent
Found out some parents didn't retain elementary knowledge 
I

abiding
He justifies his actions with his silence
So we hashtag, we’re in Phoenix he’s in flagstaff
Same state of different minds, watch him backtrack
Like

I put in work yall just rap bout it. You lane “vehicle for change” but it lacks milage/
Your “pro Black mentality” — just a phase
Yall complain; time