You know they got me trapped in this prison of Happiness, on the streets is a delusion Even a smooth criminal one day get caught Shot up or shot down with the bullet that he Nine millimeter thinking about what the streets do to me
'Cause they never talk in the black community All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the city streets like a rat of tyrants Too many daily heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off then they went in the years I done a lot of growin' up Gettin' thrown' up up Then I I had enough There must be route, way out To money and fame, I changed my And played a different Tired of being in this vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I just might go And I get 'em I'll hit 'em with the bum 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 ghetto and catch the Uzi They got me
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
They got me Can walk the city streets a cop harassing me, searching me Then my identity Hands up, me up against the wall do a thing at all I'm tellin' you one day these suckers gotta Cuffed up throw me on the Coppers try to me But they didn't know this was the street Bang bang, another casualty But it's a cop who's there's brutality Who do you a shame because the mans slain He got caught in the of his own game How can I feel after all the things they did to me Sweated me, me Trapped in my own One day I'm gonna Blow up on society Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me like a slave they laid back Homie don't that It's time I lett 'em suffer the I'm tryin' to avoid contact I can't hold back, it's to attack jack They got me
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the 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 a getaway All I need is a 'G' and somewhere safe to Can't use the 'Cause I'm sure someone is in Did it Ain't scared to use my gat I look back at the fight was irrelevant But now he's the friend Too late to be him He shot first and be damned if I run away Homie is done away I of put my gun away I thinkin' all I heard was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup "Damn homies is dissin' you" I my weapon steppin' in the hurricane I got shot so I Feelin' a of pain Got to my see nothin' but bloody blood Now I'm a fugitive to be hunted a murderer Ran through an Still lookin' for my Coppers said Freeze, or be dead today Trapped in a Dark and I see the light in my mind was the nine and a better life do I do? Live my in a prison cell I'd rather die then be trapped in a hell got me trapped
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) You know got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down)