You know they got me in this prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the streets is a Even a smooth criminal one day get caught up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about what the do to me
they never talk peace in the black community All we know is violence, do the job in Walk the city like a rat pack of tyrants Too brothers daily heading for the big pen commin' out worse off then when they went in Over the I done a lot of growin' up Gettin' drunk up up Then I I had enough There must be route, way out To and fame, I changed my name And a different game of being trapped in this vicious cycle If one more cop harassed me I might go psycho And I get 'em I'll hit 'em the bum rush Only a lunatic would to see his skull crushed Yo, if smart you'll really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in this and catch the Uzi got me trapped
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) (Naw, can't keep the black man down)
They got me Can walk the city streets Without a cop harassing me, me Then asking my Hands up, throw me up against the Didn't do a at all I'm you one day these suckers gotta fall Cuffed up throw me on the try to kill me But they didn't know this was the street Bang bang, down another But it's a cop who's shot there's Who do you It's a shame because the mans 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 gonna Blow up on this Why did ya lie to me? I couldn't find a of equality Work me like a slave while they laid Homie play that It's I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to physical contact I can't hold back, it's to attack jack got me trapped
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the man down)
Now I'm trapped and want to a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay Can't use the 'Cause I'm sure is tappin' in Did it Ain't to use my gat again I look back at hindsight the fight was But now the devils friend Too late to be him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I thinkin' all I heard was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn is dissin' you" I fired my Started in the hurricane I got shot so I Feelin' a of pain Got to my see nothin' but bloody blood Now I'm a fugitive to be like a murderer Ran through an Still for my getaway Coppers said Freeze, or you'll be today Trapped in a Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a better do I do? Live my in a prison cell I'd rather die then be trapped in a living They got me
(Uh uh, they keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they keep the black man down) You know got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down)