You know they got me trapped in this prison of Happiness, living on the streets is a Even a smooth criminal one day get caught Shot up or down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about what the do to me
'Cause they never talk peace in the black All we know is violence, do the job in Walk the streets like a rat pack of tyrants Too many daily heading for the big pen Niggas out worse off then when they went in Over the years I done a lot of up Gettin' thrown' up up Then I said I had There be another route, way out To and fame, I changed my name And played a different Tired of trapped in this vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I just might go And I get 'em I'll hit 'em the bum rush Only a lunatic would like to see his skull Yo, if your smart really let me go 'G' But keep me up in this ghetto and catch the Uzi got me trapped
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) got me trapped (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)
got me trapped Can barely walk the city Without a cop me, searching me Then asking my Hands up, throw me up the wall Didn't do a at all I'm tellin' you one day these gotta fall Cuffed up me on the concrete try to kill me But they didn't this was the wrong street 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 after all the things they did to me Sweated me, me Trapped in my own One day I'm gonna up on this society Why did ya lie to me? I find a trace of equality Work me a slave while they laid back Homie don't that It's time I 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to physical contact I can't hold back, it's to attack jack They got me
(Uh uh, they can't 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 keep the black man down)
Now I'm trapped and want to find a All I need is a 'G' and somewhere to stay Can't use the 'Cause I'm sure someone is in Did it Ain't scared to use my gat 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 damned if I run is done away I should of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is you" I fired my steppin' in the hurricane I got so I dropped Feelin' a burst of Got to my Couldn't see nothin' but blood Now I'm a to be hunted like 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 was the nine and a better life do I do? Live my in a prison cell I'd rather die then be in a living hell got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) They got me (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) You they got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down)