When a black man can't walk certain streets
Without being ha**led by the pigs
When the youth are forced into a school system
Designed to break the will of the kids
When you don't feel safe walking the streets
Of your own f**ing hometown
Just cause you look different
People always try to push you around
So this is freedom?
Live in a capitalist system that says
You gotta work just to survive
But when you're stuck in a dead end job
Are you really alive?
Then they tax us on what we earn
To pay for their f**ing wars
The cold war, war on d**,
The secret war out on the poor
Go to school, learn a trade, do as I say you better behave
If this is freedom how come I feel like a f**ing slave?