| Imagine walking out on the streets without cops blastin'
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| Imagine if Mike Brown ain’t never died
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| What if Goldman Sachs wasn’t running the Fed
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| I wonder, will we have a better chance to survive
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| Na na na, we from the bottom so we gotta stay alive
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| And they say, «Lock us in narcotics,»
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| Now the rules do not apply to them
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| Yea, we’re dying off their side effects
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| Antibiotics in our diets, the food should be prescribed to us
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| But how we living? |
| In and out of prison
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| But imagine if they treated addition like it’s a sickness
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| You go to jail, they make a record profit
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| But I wonder, what would happen when dollars follow tuition?
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| And it would be different, but they don’t wanna fix it
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| Cuz the more we suffer, the more that it get 'em richer
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| My homies got degrees but they still can’t make a livin'
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| Fuck wishin', now let’s go and get it.
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| Millions watch as Martin marches, (Still hear the chants.)
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| That led us through the dark and heartless
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| If I ruled (If I ruled. Imagine that.) I’d free all my sons, (Free 'em all
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| baby.)
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| At least give them a chance
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| What if the homies all had luxury sweats?
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| What if the drama didn’t come with the sex?
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| What if college didn’t put us in debt?
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| What if they let Obama do what he said?
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| And he did’t have to answer to the companies and lobbyists
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| Or them cops that caught them bodies up in Washington
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| What if sextapes wasn’t making women blow?
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| Would we be keeping up with women from a different show?
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| Now what you mean? |
| You don’t need no surgery
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| Girl you beautiful as hell, all you need is self-esteem
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| Now they wanna kill our people in the street
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| Cuz poverty’s like a disease that they cure with HIV
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| For the people that I’ve seen struggling and it’s humbling
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| The minute I get it, you better believe that I’m gonna come for them
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| Imagine if all our fathers stuck with our mothers, and maybe we would learn how
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| to love again
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| Millions watch as Martin marches, (Still hear the chants.)
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| That led us through the dark and heartless
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| If I ruled (If I ruled. Imagine that.) I’d free all my sons, (Free 'em all
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| baby.)
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| At least give them a chance
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| We all are living in a world so crazy
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| But these are my brother, I love 'em, love 'em, baby
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| If all the pain is just part of the plan
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| Then we’ll walk right up to the sun, hand in hand
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| Millions watch as Martin marches, (Still hear the chants.)
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| That led us through the dark and heartless
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| If I ruled (If I ruled. Imagine that.) I’d free all my sons, (Free 'em all
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| baby.)
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| At least give them a chance |