Gangland-Lecrae/Propaganda

[00:00.00]Gangland -Lecrae /Propaganda [00:00.330]We not playin'out here it's for real [00:02.910]We livin'out here for life we tryna to get it [00:05.400]Ain't nobody finna take our life [00:07.20]I keep my young homies out here with these things my big homies out keep handlin'me [00:10.577]And we keep it crackin' [00:13.677]My other name should've been Jesse James cause I stay with my cannon [00:17.597]I didn't have no choice I was raised right around the corner from where we stand [00:21.925]Hollow points in it and all of that I'm ready [00:24.205]We gang bangin' [00:25.135]My cousin beep was a killer [00:26.345]He done pulled a lot of triggers [00:27.445]He done made a lot of mothers drop [00:29.325]And if you ask him why he do it he'd just say I'm young and foolish [00:31.695]Bang only right before he made them bullets fly [00:33.345]He ain't have no sense of dignity his daddy was a mystery [00:35.45]He'll probably end up dead or sittin'in a penitentary [00:36.705]And tell the judge he can go to hell for the sentence [00:39.625]And it probably make no sense if you would listen to the history [00:41.735]The new Jim Crow or the old one [00:43.525]People out here fightin'for equality and honestly I think they owe some [00:45.975]Back and forth some [00:46.935]Cleaver got a message for the people [00:48.655]Bunch you with 'em and they tryna stop the evil [00:50.384]And they cliqued up with they fist up [00:52.444]The whole neighborhood feelin'like they meant somethin' [00:54.353]Then it was a mix-up fair's got 'em fixed up [00:56.173]End of the movement back to the bricks bruh [00:58.553]And Raymond Washington about to start the Crips up [01:00.862]They gettin'bigger every day and tryna fix stuff [01:02.852]They saw Geronimo Pratt dodgin'bullets from attacks [01:05.270]Guess they figure [01:06.60]We don't really want it this much [01:11.239]You know originally the gangs were created to protect everybody in the community [01:14.799]There was lynching and bombing going on and the gangs were there to protect [01:18.219]What people don't understand is that a lot of the leaders died [01:20.549]Medgar Evers （been shot）Bunchy Carter （been shot）Fred Hampton （been shot） [01:25.179]MLK （been shot in Memphis Tennessee） [01:28.18]These youngsters didn't have any direction [01:30.48]No leaders to look up to so they went rogue on 'em [01:31.626]They say that Crip stands for Community [01:33.376]Revolutionary and Interparty Service [01:35.136]Way before the genocide and the murders [01:37.386]A little after integration was the verdict [01:39.556]When bombs might go off at the Sunday service （ [01:42.06]They protectin'they community [01:43.406]Then it turn into diplomatic immunity [01:45.696]Then a fight against oppression was the pressin' [01:47.356]Now they keep on losin'battles and they started losin'unity [01:49.896]Now they beat each other blue-black [01:51.646]Force fed self hate 'till the truth crack [01:53.666]Got they own folks hidin'on the rooftops [01:55.706]They ain't finna take no more they finna shoot back （ [01:58.476]Now they bond like a family they all bloods [02:00.406]From the concrete jungle to the small hoods [02:02.506]Throwin'signs up now the crime's up [02:04.206]We was meant to kill oppression now we loadin'9's up [02:06.366]But never mind us grind us [02:08.145]Factory the clothes now a lot of people jobless [02:10.135]Now they got the drugs comin'in from Nicaragua [02:12.255]Government done turned a blind eye or they liars [02:15.25]It was a perfect storm [02:16.255]I mean we're talkin'post-segregation [02:17.284]And what are you gonna do [02:18.734]The factories have closed and no one's hiring anybody from the urban community [02:21.804]Because of what you look like [02:23.694]And now there's a war going on in Nicaragua and drugs are being imported into your community [02:27.934]Are you gonna to sell drugs or are you gonna be homeless [02:30.574]Cause the government's not paying attention [02:32.264]Huh man you tell me [02:33.584]What's a reasonable man to say [02:35.434]There's a high school in Alabama named after Robert E Lee And it's 89%black [02:39.953]You don't see the irony [02:41.373]What it do to a psyche it's simple you don't like me [02:44.283]What I'm 'posed to do now [02:46.63]Delusional calling that system criminal justice [02:48.572]Where the rich and the guilty are safer than the poor and the innocent [02:52.122]Why would we listen [02:53.682]When American churches scuff they Toms on our brother's dead bodies [02:57.182]As they march to stop gay marriage [02:59.372]We had issues with Planned Parenthood too [03:01.992]We just cared about black lives outside the womb just as much as in [03:06.792]Young man gon'find purpose somehow [03:08.942]And a nation was at least around [03:10.882]And when them vice lords told him he was of royal decent [03:13.472]And that war on drugs felt much more like war on the poor [03:16.562]He figured forget it [03:17.731]So why don't you come stay a while [03:20.161]Tell us that the son of man walked on Egyptian [03:22.561]And Eastern soil and wasn't just a Western construct [03:25.391]Or master used to control us [03:27.541]But what the master used to free us [03:30.121]And it was a crooked system just like this that left the King of Kings bloodless [03:34.651]Yeah we are truly a descendant of a King [03:37.441]Only his reign is infinite [03:39.380]And being right is a distant second to the joy or compassion [03:42.499]Why don't you come stay a while