Police State

[Chairman Omali Yeshitela]

You have the emergence in human society

Of this thing that's called the State

What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy

It is the po-lice department. It is the Army, the Navy

It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you

This is the State -- it is a repressive organization

But the state -- and gee, well, you know

You've got to have the police, cause

If there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves!

You'd be killing each other if there were no police!

But the reality is

The police become necessary in human society

Only at that junction in human society

Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

[Dead Prez]

I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think

Organize the hood under I Ching banners

Red, Black and Green instead of gang bandanas

F.B.I. spyin on us through the radio antennas

And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watchin society

With no respect for the people's right to privacy

I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P

While all you fake niggaz try to copy Master P

I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live

Bring the power back to the street, where the people live

We sick of workin for crumbs and fillin up the prisons

Dyin over money and relyin on religion for help

We do for self like ants in a colony

Organize the wealth into a socialist economy

A way of life based off the common need

And all my comrades is ready, we just spreadin the seed

The average Black male

Live a third of his life in a jail cell

Cause the world is controlled by the white male

And the people don't never get justice

And the women don't never get respected

And the problems don't never get solved

And the jobs don't never pay enough

So the rent always be late; can you relate?

We livin in a police state

No more bondage, no more political monsters

No more secret space launchers

Government departments started it in the projects

Material objects, thousands up in the closets

Could've been invested in a future for my comrades

Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat

Many never come back

Pretty niggaz be runnin with gats

Rather get shot in they back than fire back

We tired of that - corporations hirin blacks

Denyin the facts, exploitin us all over the map

That's why I write the shit I write in my raps

It's documented, I meant it

Every day of the week, I live in it; breathin it

It's more than just fuckin believin it

I'm holdin them ones, rollin up my sleeves an' shit

It's cee-lo for push-ups now, many headed for one conclusion

Niggaz ain't ready for revolution

The average Black male

Live a third of his life in a jail cell

Cause the world is controlled by the white male

And the people don't never get justice

And the women don't never get respected

And the problems don't never get solved

And the jobs don't never pay enough

So the rent always be late; can you relate?

We livin in a police state

[Fred Hampton]

I am a revolutionary

And you're gonna have to keep on sayin that

You're gonna have to say that I am a proletariat

I am the people, I'm not the pig

[Another speaker]

Guiliani you are full of shit!

And anybody that's down with you!

You could man-make things better for us

And you cuttin the welfare

Knowin damn well when you cut the welfare

A person gon' do crime