You know they got me trapped in this of seclusion Happiness, living on the streets is a Even a criminal one day must get caught Shot up or shot down with the bullet that he Nine millimeter thinking about what the streets do to me
they never talk peace in the black community All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the city like a rat pack of tyrants Too brothers 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 be another route, way out To money and fame, I my name And a different 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 skull Yo, if your you'll really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in this and catch the Uzi They got me
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
They got me Can barely the city streets Without a cop harassing me, me asking my identity Hands up, me up against the wall do a thing at all I'm tellin' you one day suckers gotta fall up throw me on the concrete Coppers try to me But didn't know this was the wrong street Bang bang, down casualty But a cop who's shot 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 in my own community One day I'm bust up on this society Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me a slave while they laid back don't play that It's time I lett 'em suffer the I'm tryin' to physical contact I hold back, it's time to attack jack got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
Now I'm trapped and want to a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay use the phone 'Cause I'm sure is tappin' in Did it Ain't to use my gat again I look back at hindsight the fight was But now the devils friend Too to be tellin' him He shot first and I'll be if I run away Homie is done away I of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I heard was the was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is dissin' you" I my weapon Started in the hurricane I got so I dropped 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 lookin' for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or be dead today in a corner Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a life do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd rather die then be trapped in a hell got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) They got me (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) You they got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down)