Police State-Dead Prez

[00:00.000] 作词 : Lavonne Alford/Khnum M. Ibomu/Omali Yeshitela [00:00.033] 作曲 : Lavonne Alford/Khnum M. Ibomu/Omali Yeshitela [00:00.066]You have the emergence in human society of this thing that's called the State [00:05.760]What is the State? [00:07.119]The State is this organized bureaucracy [00:10.724]It is the police department [00:13.597]It is the Army, the Navy [00:15.321]It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you [00:18.430]This is the State [00:19.475]It is a repressive organization [00:21.878]But the state and gee well, you know [00:24.464]You've got to have the police because if there were no police [00:27.364]Look at what you'd be doing to yourselves [00:29.976]You'd be killing each other if there were no police! [00:32.222]But the reality is the police become necessary in human society [00:36.689]Only at that juncture in human society [00:39.902]Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got [00:43.978]I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct [00:46.668]You know how we think: [00:47.582]Organize the hood under I Ching banners [00:50.247]Red, Black, and Green instead of gang bandanas [00:52.729]FBI spying on us through the radio antennas [00:55.471]And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watching society [00:58.267]With no respect for the people's right to privacy [01:00.957]I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P [01:03.334]While all you fake n*ggas try to copy Master P [01:06.051]I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live [01:09.055]Bring the power back to the street where the people live [01:11.641]I'm sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons [01:13.992]Dying over money and relying on religion [01:17.179]For help. We do for self like ants in a colony [01:19.556]Organize the wealth into a socialist economy [01:22.142]A way of life based off the common need [01:24.389]And all my comrades are ready, we're just spreading the seed [01:27.315]The average Black male [01:28.490]Live a third of his life in a jail cell [01:31.207]Cause the world is controlled by the white male [01:33.871]And the people don't never get justice [01:36.536]And the women don't never get respected [01:39.331]And the problems don't never get solved [01:41.891]And the jobs don' never pay enough [01:44.529]So the rent always be late [01:46.828]Can you relate? [01:48.134]We living in a police state [01:48.918]No more bondage, no more political monsters [01:52.183]No more secret space launchers [01:54.325]Government departments started it in the projects [01:56.833]Material objects, thousands up in the closets [01:59.602]Could've been invested in a future for my comrades [02:02.240]Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat [02:04.931]Many never come back, pretty n*ggas be running with gats [02:07.752]Rather get shot in they back than fire back [02:10.103]We tired of that, corporations hiring Blacks [02:12.480]Denying the facts exploiting us all over the map [02:15.249]That's why I write the sh*t I write in my raps [02:17.182]It's documented, I'm in it, every day of the week I live in it [02:20.735]Breathing it, it's more than just f*cking believing it [02:23.347]I'm holding M1's, rolling up my sleeves an' sh*t [02:26.116]It's Cee-lo for push-ups now [02:27.893]Many headed for one conclusion [02:29.277]N*ggas ain't ready for revolution [02:31.445]The average Black male [02:32.621]Live a third of his life in a jail cell [02:35.285]Cause the world is controlled by the white male [02:37.976]And the people don't never get justice [02:40.536]And the women don't never get respected [02:43.279]And the problems don't never get solved [02:45.996]And the jobs don' never pay enough [02:48.529]So the rent always be late [02:50.750]Can you relate? [02:51.899]We living in a police state