Brother Ali - The Trap lyrics

Judge not lest ye shall be judged let he
Who is without sin cast the first stone
Until you have walked a mile in a man's
Shoes you can not judge a man

What if that was you born to
The left of the tracks?
The place where you grow up
Is infested with rats
The Army didn't segregate that
Everybody who could, left in a snap
And never looked back
And since they've been gone they
Haven't invested in jack
Left very few ways for
You to generate scratch
Your school is under funded
Your teachers over worked
And when it comes to text books
You gotta settle for scraps
And seldom when trapped
The wall pressed to your back
Can we ever think of anything except to react
If you ain't Einstein, you just a regular cat
And your self preservation is a medical fact
Then done set you up a helluva trap
They put bait in your face and if you
Take it then you never get back
What kind of set up is that?
The justice is just that
Just us, a public defender
His head up his ass you're headed to a place
Where slavery is legal
And you being a human ain't no relevant fact
And if you play nice
You might escape with your life
And get a release date
But don't celebrate yet!
Cause they're sending you back
To where you fell threw the cracks
Except now it's harder because you
Got a felony rap might get an interview but
Your resume's jacked
And the second they find out you
Got an F it's a wrap
In the 70's cats, from the ghetto made rap
Unifying worldwide, we all felt the impact
But the company that stole out
They sellin' it back
Stripped all down to, really
The irrelevant crap and the message is that
If you poor you black
Throw some shells up in the gat and
Go and sell you some crack
Then you'll have shiny things
And money in stacks
And Destiny's Child will want to
Fuck you for that
Look how the fuckin' deck has been stacked
And the effect it can have on you
Feelin' you never had a chance
Don't be judging people in a
Second at a glance
Or act superior because the
Blessings that you had
God don't prefer you, He's testing your ass
With the benefit you're givin'
You're expected to pass
Take a look in the mirror reflect on that
Just might be a hypocrite
Reflecting in the glass with yo bitch ass!