KXNG Crooked - I Can't Breathe lyrics

[Intro] As you can see right now, Times Square is covered with protestors. There's about 20 riot cops over there. Other groups have joined and are converging here in Times Square. Today is the ceremony for the lighting of the Rockefeller tree and there's police officers swarming everywhere to make sure the protestors do not disrupt that ceremony that they're having. There's hundreds and hundreds of protestors right now, in the streets right now, blocking all traffic, a huge number. An announcement that the cop who k**ed Eric Garner was not indicted by the police department [Hook] They tell me I'm resistin' arrest But I'm only protectin' my breath, I can't breathe The cops hate a black man to d**h They tell me that mentality left, it didn't leave See bein' black come with a price Sometimes we gotta pay with our life, our family grieves The grand jury never indicts The grand dragon's wearin' his white, true indeed [Verse] No justice, no peace again I won't trust the police again Another black man murdered In the streets by police, he won't hug his own niece again So what's a black mom tell her son? "They might hate the mere sight of you So no, I can't buy that pellet gun They might try to Tamir Rice you" I guess the Devil's job is never done Respect the value of my life too For me change may never come Cause I can't change into a white dude Cops workin' with the prosecutor Prosecutor manipulate the grand jury Grand jury say it's no indictment Send the community into levels past fury Protestors on the sidewalk They say Eric Garner was choked here I say we burn this whole sh** down But won't nothin' change when the smoke clear That's cause the system is broken Another victim of a chokin' By a modern day lynch mob The cops probably wished they could've roped him How many tears gotta fall? How many peers gotta fall? The cops k** instead of capture A black man of that stature How many fears were involved? How many cheered what they saw? See, equality's the problem How many years 'til it's solved? I think somebody want a race riot But hip-hop isn't swayed by it Too many black rappers sellin' out You white rappers shouldn't stay quiet [Interlude] (Put your hands behind your back) I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe, I can't breathe [Hook] [Outro] I can't breathe I can't breathe I can't breathe I can't breathe