[Talib Kweli]
Yo you sent out the signal right?
And this is what happened
The voice of Hip Hop got heard
Never comprimised this is how we put it down c'mon
[Kool G Rap]
Throughout my thug life I've seen the most trife
Like ??? fighting over the roll of dice
Flashing whole lights when killas on a hiest
So contight, get poltergiested over the bowl of Christ
Who pulled the slice from cats aiming gats at shoulder height
Told you right, G be the one that come and hold the mic
And aim it at the whole vice squad that's out patrolling nights
Rollin like every prototype was Dolomite
One man be cold as ice inside his gun hand he holds for life
[Rah Digga]
This for those who pose in they grave
Waitin for they piece when the law misbehave
I say we fall deep, watch 'em walk the beat
Like you can't cross streets make em all retreat
(now) Judges and the jury be a little too appointed
Ending up defendants when we supposed to be the plaintiffs
Laugh now cause soon the thrill stops when
Heads get it on and start to kill cops
[Sporty Theivz]
I'm sober they pulled me over
What I do yo? (what we do yo?)
Po-po go I'm drivin too slow (cool yo)
I torin' them explorin them (damn)
Four of em that's why I'm ignoring them (uh-oh)
Think quick, brain like, King skip
Before they bring this to some Rodney King shit
Forget them fools
Nah make no sudden moves
They reachin for they tools (let's move)
You buggin Dubez
Kirk you ran the stop, word them pigs frontin
Yo tell that kid something cousin we ain't did nothin
All they see is three blacks in a jeep with seats back
Lookin for G packs how the blood dog can eat that
They thirst to find a reason to blast you can't peep that?
Gats and a badge to match you can beat that so bounce 'em
[Mos Def]
My people unite and let's all get down
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
Do it right ya'll, keep it tight ya'll, do it right ya'll, just do it
[Shabaam Sahdeeq]
Blood on they hands, blood on my mans
Destroying the fam
More soldiers die, another mother cries
Anthony Baez, Eleanor Bumpurs, Diallo
Let it keep happenin and there's more to follow
It's even deeper then that penal shot in the back
Forever we fight and cuss but the world still injust
So many bullets just to stop one man
Is that the plan
To leave us all dead in the street
[Common]
I'm an opponent of violence
Too many of my guys have become moments of silence
Law takes lives and condone it through sirens
And night sticks I write quick
Hopin that
[Talib Kweli and Common]
I might hit somebody in the heart
[Talib Kweli]
Like an arrow with her eyes on a sparrow
Yo I feel my people pain all in my bone marrow
[Common]
I'm tellin Pharaoh to let my folks go
Monsters singin to law like they background vocals
[Talib Kweli]
Local, state, federal cops have been paid properly
To protect the property
How can I just stand by and watch a man die for nothin and not react
The way we spit on this track is how we bustin back
[Common]
Yo I pimp slap 5-0
Get behind them and make the marks drive slow
[Talib Kweli]
Yo, you wanna know how to improve on the quality life?
Try respectin it step in my zone with that madness and I'm checking it
[Pharoahe Monch]
Cops they transport me from Long island to Medina
With they fucked up demeanor
Dreamin of stickin it to me like Abner Louima
Pharoahe slash El-Hajj Malik Shabazz
In the flesh, with plans of retaliations for your coward ass
God please allow me to preach for 'em
A voiceless man through a spirit I speek for him
Step to city hall for delf, do it for dolo
With visions of cops inside the Public Enemy logo
[Posdnous]
All that scheming and plotting
The young absorb like cotton
Especially in my city where the poor is steady rotting
And you would thought 5-0 would cut it all short
But they play the biggest part in the art of living wrong
In our land cops guns clap more then hands
As if we don't deserve what they hear to preserve
We just tryin to do it right in these boroughs that we reppin in
While they trying to fill us with more Led then Zeppelin
[Everyone Lead by Mos Def]
My people unite and let's all get down
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
My people unite and let's all get down
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
My people unite and let's all get down
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
My people unite, hop up and do it right
We gotta have what? love peace and understandin
One god, One love, One light
One aim, One voice, One fight
