| I stand like a sentinel
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| Steeped in the streetlight, savagery’s conventional
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| Mass riots and protests the minimal
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| Dominant culture, they killing off my kin and you
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| Sit and watch the profile, the program
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| Media, they manipulate, they go ham
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| Selling cigarettes they shove down a brotha’s neck
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| No respect for the spirit or the intellect
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| Survivor to the most apocalyptic
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| Conspiracy in history, living out a mystery
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| Who done it, the shots come in, the cops gun it
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| Fill your melon with gun shellings, you not running
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| Best make peace with the holy ghost
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| When the po po roll, they keep the 40 close
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| Blow a hole back through the homie’s coat
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| There’s no love for my peeps, that’s why they gang so
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| Blood clot, blood red, no joke
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| We need the Panthers back to protect the poor folk
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| Less talk, more action need to be about
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| Uniform my people before they see us out
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| My people unite, and let’s all get down
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| I gotta ha ha have it
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| I gotta ha ha have it
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| I gotta ha ha have that love
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| System, systematic way of killing
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| Judges giving leniency to a public lynching
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| Hands to the ceiling, men, women, children
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| Gaza to the Philippines, California to Ferguson
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| Living like it’s the last, there’s a target on my back
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| When the man who on patrol don’t know the place where he at
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| Cause he live about five towns away
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| They buried Michael Brown today
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| And this ill force sittin' on a coroner’s bin
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| Neither boy had a weapon just melanin in the skin
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| They trippin' that we trippin', that we’re visibly pissed
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| Like they ain’t out here killing our kids
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| Gassing the air that we breathe
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| This ain’t a warzone, this is our home, you leave
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| And you can add another gallon of tear gas it’s fine
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| Cause I’ve been cryin' over the children out here dyin'
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| We weren’t at war with them but they will murder I
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| Hand to the most high when they murder I
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| They tryin' to kill us slow
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| Tryin' to get rid of a billion Africans or more
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| Secret society laws they don’t abide
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| It’s wild outside and AIDS is genocide
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| Understand it’s a plan of combat
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| The uniform, the badge, the gun, the contract
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| Matter fact, what does POLICE stand for?
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| Protection of Life in Civil Establishment or not?
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| Murder us everyday, none on the news or channel 4
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| Take one of us out hoping that triggers us for war
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| I can see your fear mask, like a near death
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| Lady on a baby pass throwing teargas
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| Us against them, or how they make it appear as
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| They said you had a look like you had a gat, and had a blast
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| Cops shot him walking out the store on his way to class
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| Didn’t resist, hands in the air, stayed clam
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| 2 in head, 2 in the chest, unarmed
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| Get a life sentence for drug and gun charge
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| They say the rest at large, you under oath
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| And use lieutenant Johnson as a scapegoat |