I stand like a sentinel Steeped in the streetlight, savagery's conventional Ma** riots and protests the minimal Dominant culture, they k**ing off my kin and you Sit and watch the profile, the program Media, they manipulate, they go ham Selling cigarettes they shove down a brotha's neck No respect for the spirit or the intellect Survivor to the most apocalyptic Conspiracy in history, living out a mystery Who done it, the shots come in, the cops gun it Fill your melon with gun shellings, you not running Best make peace with the holy ghost When the po po roll, they keep the 40 close Blow a hole back through the homie's coat There's no love for my peeps, that's why they gang so Blood clot, blood red, no joke We need the Panthers back to protect the poor folk Less talk, more action need to be about Uniform my people before they see us out [Hook:]X2 My people unite, and let's all get down I gotta ha ha have it I gotta ha ha have it I gotta ha ha have that love System, systematic way of k**ing Judges giving leniency to a public lynching Hands to the ceiling, men, women, children Gaza to the Philippines, California to Ferguson Living like it's the last, there's a target on my back When the man who on patrol don't know the place where he at Cause he live about five towns away They buried Michael Brown today And this ill force sittin' on a coroner's bin Neither boy had a weapon just melanin in the skin They trippin' that we trippin', that we're visibly pissed Like they ain't out here k**ing our kids Ga**ing the air that we breathe This ain't a warzone, this is our home, you leave And you can add another gallon of tear gas it's fine Cause I've been cryin' over the children out here dyin' We weren't at war with them but they will murder I Hand to the most high when they murder I [Hook]X2 They tryin' to k** us slow Tryin' to get rid of a billion Africans or more Secret society laws they don't abide It's wild outside and AIDS is genocide Understand it's a plan of combat The uniform, the badge, the gun, the contract Matter fact, what does POLICE stand for? Protection of Life in Civil Establishment or not? Murder us everyday, none on the news or channel 4 Take one of us out hoping that triggers us for war I can see your fear mask, like a near d**h Lady on a baby pa** throwing teargas Us against them, or how they make it appear as They said you had a look like you had a gat, and had a blast Cops shot him walking out the store on his way to cla** Didn't resist, hands in the air, stayed clam 2 in head, 2 in the chest, unarmed Get a life sentence for drug and gun charge They say the rest at large, you under oath And use lieutenant Johnson as a scapegoat [Hook]X2 [Outro]