| «I've heard whispers… about the financial support your government receives
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| from the drug industry?»
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| «Well, the irony of this, of course, is that this money, which is in the
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| billions, is coming from your country. |
| You see, you are the major purchaser of
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| our national product, which is, of course, cocaína.»
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| «Cocaine. |
| On one hand, you’re saying the United States government is spending
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| millions of dollars to eliminate the flow of drugs onto our streets.
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| At the same time, we are doing business with the very same government that is
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| flooding our streets with cocaine?»
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| «Mm, mm, si, si. |
| Let me show you a few of the other characters that are
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| involved in this… tragicomedy.»
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| «Oigan ustedes ahi! |
| Ustedes trabajando! |
| Sigan trabajando carajo!»
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| «Oye Luis, ¿Cuándo van a terminar?»
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| «Ahorita.»
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| «Bueno que se apuren los burros. |
| Ahorita viene el camión, apúra, diles!»
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| «Ahorita van a venir para recoger los productos, apúrate!»
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| I’m on the border of Bolivia, working for pennies
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| Treated like a slave, the coca fields have to be ready
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| The spirit of my people is starving, broken and sweaty
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| Dreaming about revolution (
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| «¡Revolucion!»
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| ) looking at my machete
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| But the workload is too heavy to rise up in arms
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| And if I ran away, I know they’d probably murder my moms
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| So I pray to Jesú Cristo when I go to the mission
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| Process the cocaine paste, and play my position
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| Ok, listen, Juan Valdez, just get me my product
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| Before we chop off your hands for worker’s misconduct
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| I got the power to shoot a copper, and not get charged
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| And it would be sad to see your family in front of a firing squad
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| So, to feed your kids? |
| I need these bricks
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| Forty tons in total, let me test it, indeed, I…
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| Shit, this is good. |
| Pass me a tissue
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| And don’t worry about them, I paid off the official
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| Yo, it don’t come as a challenge, I’m the son of some of the foulest
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| Elected by my people, the only one on the ballot
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| Born and bred to consult with feds, I laugh at fate
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| And assassinate my predecessor to have his place
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| In a Third World fascist state, lock the nation
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| With 90% of the wealth in 10% of the population
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| The Central Intelligence Agency takes weight faithfully
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| The finest type of China white and cocaine, you’ll see
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| Honey, I’m home! |
| Never mind why your bank account’s suddenly grown. |
| It’s
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| Funny we’re
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| so
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| out of this debt from this money we owe! |
| Would you
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| Run if I told you that I had two governments overthrown
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| To keep our son enrolled in a private school and to keep our tummies swollen?
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| Come on, our fucking home was built on a foundation
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| Of bloody throats. |
| The hungry stolen of their souls. |
| Of course this country’s
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| Running coke. |
| I took a stunted oath to hush the ones who know
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| The CIA conducts the flow for these young hustlers that lust for dough
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| I don’t work in the hood. |
| Hit my connect. |
| That’s
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| What’s really good. |
| They supply work to the hood
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| These dudes fucking crack me up. |
| Scrutinized like
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| We inferior.
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| Petrified when we meet in my area (Calm down)
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| My dudes don’t shoot until I say so. |
| You got the loot?
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| Give me the «Yay-Yay!» |
| like Ice Cube, so don’t play with
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| My llello
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| . |
| We won’t stop for you bastards
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| My street scramblers chop it and bag it
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| Taking pictures and tapping phones, debating snitches and
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| Cracking codes. |
| Fast to cuff or blast the fo' on any
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| Hustler stacking dough. |
| There’s probably crack or blow
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| And my overtime is where your taxes go. |
| I’ll gain your trust
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| Get you to hand weight to us ‘cause we paid up front
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| On the low with cameras taping ya. |
| Getting popped
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| With weight? |
| The prison sentence is due. |
| Make the call
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| And then leave with two kis out the evidence room
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| With my fame. |
| Truck, boat, or plane, they’re watching you
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| You think you got work? |
| They’re copping too!
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| We control blocks. |
| They lock countries and own
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| Companies. |
| We had nice cars and sneaker money!
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| Now there’s players out there talking 'bout they holding
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| With bugs in their house like they down South with windows open
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| Your dough ain’t long—you wrong—you take shorts and soon
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| Feds’ll be up in your mouth like forks and spoons
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| So enjoy the rush, live plush off coke bread. |
| Soon |
| You’ll be in a cell with me like Jenny Lopez
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| In a school, I was a bully. |
| Now life is fully a joke
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| I’ll keep afloat on a boat for Peruvian coke
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| Players do favors for governors and tax makers
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| Fat Quakers smoke crack and sex acts with bad mayors
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| The walls got ears. |
| You bigmouths probably scared
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| Not prepared to do years like Javier
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| «The story just told is an example of the path that drugs take on their way to
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| every neighborhood, in every state, of this country. |
| It’s a lot deeper than the
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| niggas on your block.
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| So when they point the finger at you, brother man?
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| This
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| is what you’ve got to tell them.»
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| «I'm not guilty.
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| You’re
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| the one that’s guilty. |
| The lawmakers, the politicians, the Columbian drug lords.
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| . |
| all you who lobby against making drugs legal, just like you did with alcohol
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| during the prohibition!
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| You’re
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| the one who’s guilty. |
| I mean, c’mon, let’s kick the ballistics here:
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| ain’t no Uzis made in Harlem! |
| Not one of us in here owns a poppy field!
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| This thing is bigger than Immortal Technique. |
| This is big business.
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| This is the American way.» |