You know they got me trapped in prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the streets is a Even a smooth criminal one day must get up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' about what the streets do to me
they never talk peace in the black community All we know is violence, do the job in the city streets like a rat pack of tyrants Too brothers daily heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out off then when they went in Over the years I a lot of growin' up drunk thrown' up up Then I said I had There must be route, way out To money and fame, I my name And played a game Tired of being in this vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I might go psycho And I get 'em hit 'em with the bum rush Only a lunatic would like to see his crushed Yo, if smart you'll really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in this ghetto and the Uzi got me trapped
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) (Naw, can't keep the black man down)
They got me Can barely the city streets Without a cop me, searching me Then asking my Hands up, throw me up against the do a thing at all I'm you one day these suckers gotta fall Cuffed up me on the concrete try to kill me But they didn't know this was the wrong Bang bang, another casualty But it's a cop who's shot there's Who do you a shame because the mans slain He got caught in the of his own game How can I feel guilty after all the things did to me Sweated me, me in my own community One day I'm bust up on this society Why did ya lie to me? I find a trace of equality me like a slave while they laid back Homie don't that It's time I lett 'em suffer the I'm tryin' to avoid physical I can't hold back, it's to attack jack got me trapped
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
Now I'm trapped and want to find a All I need is a 'G' and safe to stay use the phone 'Cause I'm sure is tappin' in Did it Ain't scared to use my gat I look back at the fight was irrelevant But now the devils friend Too to be tellin' him He shot first and be damned if I run away Homie is done I should of put my gun away I thinkin' all I heard was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup "Damn homies is dissin' you" I fired my Started steppin' in the I got shot so I Feelin' a burst of Got to my Couldn't see nothin' but bloody Now I'm a to be hunted like a murderer Ran an alley lookin' for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or you'll be today Trapped in a Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my was the nine and a better life do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd die then be trapped in a living hell got me trapped
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) You know they got me (Naw, can't keep the black man down)