Anderson .Paak - Lockdown lyrics

You should've been downtown (Word)
The people are risin' (For real?)
We thought it was a lockdown  (What?)
They opened the fire  (Man)
Them bullets was flyin' (O oh)
Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie

Oh my
Time heals all, but you out of time now (Now)
Judge gotta watch us from the clock tower
(True)
Lil' tear gas cleared the whole place out
I'll be back with the hazmat
For the next round we was tryna protest
Then the fires broke out
Look out for the secret agents
They be planted in the crowd
Said, "It's civil unrest
" but you sleep so sound
Like you don't hear the screams
When we catchin' beatdowns?
Stayin' quiet when they killin' niggas
But you speak loud when we riot
Got opinions comin' from a place of privilege
Sicker than the COVID how they
Did him on the ground speakin' of the COVID
Is it still goin' around?
And won't you tell me 'bout the
Lootin'? What's that really all about?
'Cause they throw away black
Lives like paper towels
Plus unemployment rate, what
Forty million now?
Killed a man in broad day
Might never see a trial
We just wanna break chains like
Slaves in the South
Started in the North End but
We in the downtown riot cops tried to block
Now we got a showdown
(Citizens of Los Angeles) Down
(I hereby declare this to
Be an unlawful assembly)
(And in the name of the people
Of the State of California)

You should've been downtown
(Command all those assembled)
The people are risin' (Right here)
We thought it was a lockdown
They opened the fire (O oh)
Them bullets was flyin'
(Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop because
They tell us to)
Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie

Downtown, where I got popped
With the rubber bullet
Trey-pound, got it in my name now
I'ma shoot it

Uh, okay, never understand why they do it
Someone cut the channel off the
News 'fore I lose it (Nah)
I ain't even trippin', if you wit' it
Then we lootin' (Nah)
Help me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki
(O oh) , o he
Had to break it down so smoothly (Smooth)
They gon' say, "It's not about race
" but we movin' (Fuckin') ho, power
Copped the trey-pound
Had to put that in my name
Wish a nigga play now (yeah)
Any given day, I'll be headed to the pulpit's
(yeah) say a lil' prayer, matter fact
I need two of 'em, ooh
Won't he do it? Won't he do it?
Ooh, this ain't '92 so we into new rules
Niggas got hip, so we don't loot the projects
'Bout to hit Rodeo with my lil' cousin Marcus
Someone threw a whole brick
In the Neiman Marcus (Ah)
Help me put the whole
Mannequin in the Charger

You should've been downtown (Down)
The people are risin' (Look around)
We thought it was a lockdown (Shit, lockdown)
They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire)
Them bullets was flyin' (Down, down)
Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie
(Ooh-wee)

Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause
They tell us to downtown, where I got popped
With the rubber bullet
Trey-pound, got it in my name now
(Uh) , I'ma shoot it
Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause
They tell us to downtown