You know they got me trapped in this prison of Happiness, living on the streets is a Even a smooth one day must get caught up or shot down with the bullet that he bought Nine millimeter kickin' thinking about the streets do to me
'Cause they never talk in the black community All we is violence, do the job in silence Walk the city like a rat pack of tyrants Too many brothers heading for the big pen Niggas commin' out worse off then when went in the years I done a lot of growin' up Gettin' drunk up up Then I said I had There be another route, way out To money and fame, I changed my And played a different Tired of being trapped in this cycle If one more cop harassed me I just go psycho And I get 'em hit 'em with the bum rush Only a lunatic would to see his skull crushed Yo, if your smart really let me go 'G' But keep me cooped up in ghetto and catch the Uzi got me trapped
(Uh uh, can't keep the black man down) got me trapped (Naw, they can't the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) (Naw, can't keep the black man down)
got me trapped Can barely the city streets Without a cop harassing me, me asking my identity Hands up, throw me up the wall do a thing at all I'm tellin' you one day suckers gotta fall Cuffed up me on the concrete Coppers try to me But they know this was the wrong street Bang bang, another casualty But a cop who's shot there's brutality Who do you It's a shame because the slain He got in the chains of his own game How can I feel guilty all the things they did to me me, hunted me Trapped in my own One day I'm gonna Blow up on society Why did ya lie to me? I find a trace of equality Work me like a slave while they back Homie don't play time I lett 'em suffer the payback I'm tryin' to avoid contact I can't hold back, time to attack jack They got me
(Uh uh, they can't keep the man down) They got me (Naw, can't keep the black man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) (Naw, they can't the black man down)
Now I'm trapped and to find a getaway All I is a 'G' and somewhere safe to stay Can't use the I'm sure someone is tappin' in Did it Ain't scared to use my gat I look at hindsight the fight was irrelevant But now he's the devils Too late to be him He shot and I'll be damned if I run away is done away I should of put my gun away I wasn't thinkin' all I was the ridicule Girlies was laughin', Tup sayin' "Damn is dissin' you" I fired my Started steppin' in the I got shot so I a burst of pain Got to my Couldn't see nothin' but blood Now I'm a fugitive to be like a murderer Ran an alley Still for my getaway Coppers Freeze, or you'll be dead today in a corner Dark and I couldn't see the Thoughts in my mind was the nine and a better do I do? Live my life in a cell I'd rather die then be trapped in a hell They got me
(Uh uh, they can't the black man down) They got me (Naw, they can't keep the man down) (Uh uh, they can't the black man down) You know they got me (Naw, they keep the black man down)