[Verse 1]
I don't know no lies, I don't owe no truth
But both come through every time I'm in the booth like
(1, 2) Check who
Spit on the riddim and I bless you
Unless you think great then you might stagnate
On a champagne rampage for your campaign
Brothers barely win but they still wanna celebrate
With great choice thinking they getting freed? Damn shame
Emancipate my faith when prison cells replicate like cancer rates?
Educate my name – we in hell without having to respirate
Don't ask if I know my place
In the eyes of the Lord I can show my face
So far I make it ‘fore I can't ignore my hate
Take it back to the day's way before my shame
[Chorus]
This shame is all I feel
Try so hard to keep it real
(But you will never understand what we go through to be a man in the land of the underhand)
So what's the deal?
[Verse 2]
f** hooks
New generation be like “f** books”
Gwarn like some coked-up crooks
It don't make sense if it don't make waves
Plus Po-Po push ‘til you don't behave – oh, what a shame
s**s like shucks when you're stuck in a world this way
Feeling more like it's a cage
Time's out
Too bad guess you never got to find out
Got you jacked up/backed up/slapped around
Come through bet they pat you down, look ask around
‘cos it sounds like war to me, if I could know I would act accordingly
Could if I would but I can't so I shan't
Can't believe you think I'm leaving it to chance