| Slave to our tables, no, we don’t know why
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| Yeah we’re listing to the devil, no, we don’t know why
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| Oh naw, another prison system, no, we don’t know why, yeah
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| For you and me to live in, no, we don’t know why, mhm
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| Woo, yeah, no, we don’t know why
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| Woo, yeah, no, we don’t know why
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| Woo, yeah, no, we don’t know why
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| Woo, yeah, no, we don’t know why
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| Sitting in the courtroom, tune on the stand
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| Hoping that his story get believed by a man
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| Took his life from him he didn’t even understand
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| Victim of they system it was all in they plans
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| Police under oath but be lying on the stand
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| Say he shot him down seen a gun in his hand
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| Tell me how a cell phone look like a pistol
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| Swept under the rug as a up resolved issue
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| His momma wanting justice but she still gon' miss him
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| Wishing she can have him back just so she can kiss him
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| Federal conviction rate 98%
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| Meaning they can take your life with none of the evidence
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| If the state give you life boy you gotta do all that
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| Praying for appeal now you hoping you crawl back
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| Lynching with no rope, nigga, that’s what you call that
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| Our prisons obsolete, I just want to ask y’all that, yeah
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| Slave to our tables, no, we don’t know why
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| Yeah we’re listing to the devil, no, we don’t know why
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| Oh naw, another prison system, no, we don’t know why, yeah
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| For you and me to live in, no, we don’t know why, mhm
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| Attorney want to win like he trying to get a ring
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| Cut a nigga time but first they make him sing
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| Even paid lawyers playing on the same team as the DA and the judge nigga shit
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| ain’t what it seem
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| A public defender won’t get you shit a conviction
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| Ain’t trying to discredit them ones handeling they business
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| Cutting off your hair it ain’t gone change your complexion
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| I know you nigga lost let me give you some direction
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| Seen the face tatts now they making a connection
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| Cooperate for they crime pat em down then arrest em
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| We hate our own skin but this melanin a blessing
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| Judge give you 50 years call it teaching you a lesson
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| Doing all the labor they paying you a dollar
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| But they making mills read the message In the bottle
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| Educated scholar doing time in Angola
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| Tell 'em abolish the prisons and free all the soldiers yeah
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| Slave to our tables, no, we don’t know why
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| Yeah we’re listing to the devil, no, we don’t know why
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| Oh naw, another prison system, no, we don’t know why, yeah
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| For you and me to live in, no, we don’t know why, mhm
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| Say yo shit, my nigga
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| Say yo shit
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| We livin' in a time (No, we don’t know why)
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| Where the police killin' us (No, we don’t know why)
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| The things they teach us in school to brainwash the mind (No, we don’t know why)
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| Then tell, why we have a record before we ever have a degree (No,
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| we don’t know why)
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| Yeah |