You know they got me trapped in this prison of Happiness, living on the is a delusion Even a smooth criminal one day get caught up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about 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 pack of Too brothers daily heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off then when went in the years I done a lot of growin' 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 being trapped in this cycle If one cop harassed me I just might go psycho And I get 'em I'll hit 'em with the bum Only a lunatic would like to see his crushed Yo, if your smart you'll 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) They got me (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) (Naw, can't keep the black man down)
got me trapped Can barely walk the streets Without a cop me, searching me Then my identity Hands up, me up against the wall Didn't do a at all I'm tellin' you one day these gotta fall Cuffed up me on the concrete Coppers try to me But they didn't know this was the wrong Bang bang, down casualty But it's a cop 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 guilty 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 find a trace of equality Work me like a slave while they laid Homie don't that time I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid contact I can't hold back, it's to attack jack got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep 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 to stay use the phone '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 the devils friend Too late to be him He shot first and be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I was the ridicule 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 like a Ran through an lookin' for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or you'll be dead in a corner Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the and a better life do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd rather die be trapped in a living hell They got me
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) You know they got me (Naw, they can't keep the man down)