You know they got me trapped in prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the is a delusion Even a smooth one day must get caught up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter thinking about what the streets do to me
'Cause 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 many daily heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off then they went in Over the I done a lot of growin' up drunk thrown' up up Then I I had enough must 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 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, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) (Naw, they keep the black man down)
They got me Can barely walk the city a cop harassing me, searching me Then my identity Hands up, throw me up against the 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 know this was the wrong street bang, down another casualty But a cop who's shot there's brutality Who do you a shame because the mans slain He got caught in the chains of his own How can I feel guilty all the things they did to me me, hunted 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 like a slave while they laid Homie don't play It's I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid physical I hold back, it's time 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, can't keep the black 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 I'm sure someone is tappin' in Did it Ain't to use my gat again I look back at the fight was irrelevant But now he's the devils Too to be tellin' him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away Homie is done away I should of put my gun I wasn't thinkin' all I heard was the Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn homies is you" I my weapon steppin' in the hurricane I got shot so I Feelin' a burst of 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 be dead today in a corner Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a better do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd die then be trapped in a living hell They got me
(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) You know got me trapped (Naw, they can't keep the man down)