How is it they can win a war against terror when In the ghetto we losing a war against h**n If you don't believe me look at some of those war veterans Fought for this country and still can't afford medicine President Nixon declared a war on d** In retrospect it was more like a war on us The drug enforcement agents are given an occupation Of making sure they inflating the prison population Since 85% of it is Black and Hispanic It's safe to say it might be a result of the crack epidemic isn't it I think it is ____ And I can give examples of just how big that it is Today it's easier to get blow than 40 years ago If there's a war on d** then were did it go They found 2 terrorists all in a row But can't find who's sneaking d** past the border patrol Do you expect me to believe this yo I mean the ma**es might do but me .. no You see some call it genocide, some call it hatred I just call it something that everyone should relate with [Hook] Let's keep real Sometimes the sun don't shine Let's keep it real Sometime a poem don't rhyme Let's keep it real Its like we living in a time we can't even make up our own mind Let's keep it real Unless a change gon come Let's keep it real It'll be the same ol song Let's keep it real
If there's a war on d** We don't win til there ain't no more With Rockefeller lost knocked a lot of fellas off Trying to get a slice bread mozzarella sauce I know none that won but hell that lost That old drug came with a hell of a cost You ever stop to think where is the source Like where are they turning this cocoa leaf into something you can snort How the hell is it coming to New York and every ghetto in America Who's this letting this new war I mean you would of think with all this counterintelligence They'd be smarter in hiding this mountain of evidence But they ain't got not even one intention of stopping it Half of it is politics half is somebody profiting The war on d** is really the opposite Should be called d** on war Because somebody getting they pockets hit So that coke on my street and that weed on your street Is only there cause they eat off it on wall street [Hook] I'm clearly a lyricist not a conspiracy theorist I just need motherf**ers to hear this I'm clearly a lyricist not a conspiracy theorist I just need motherf**ers to hear this Yes, see to go to war on something is to combat something And yo I don't see no combat or fight on d** against America [Hook]