Dead prez - Police State lyrics

You have the emergence in
Human society of this
Thing that's called the State what is the
State? The State is this
Organized bureaucracy: it is
The police department it is the Army
The Navy it is the
Prison system, the courts
And what have you this is the State
It is a repressive organization but the
State and gee well, you know
You've got to have
The police because if there were no police
Look at what you'd be doing to yourselves
- you'd be killing each other
If there were no police! But the
Reality is the police become
Necessary in human society only at that
Juncture in human society where it
Is split between those who have
And those who ain't got



I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct
You know how we think:
Organize the hood under I Ching banners
Red, Black
And Green instead of gang bandanas
FBI spying on us through the radio antennas
And them hidden cameras in
The streetlight watching society
With no respect for the
People's right to privacy
I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P
While all you fake niggas try
To copy Master P i want to be free to live
Able to have what I need to live
Bring the power back to the
Street where the people live
We sick of working for crumbs
And filling up the prisons
Dying over money and relying on religion
For help we do for self like ants in a colony
Organize the wealth into a socialist economy
A way of life based off the common need
And all my comrades is ready
We're just spreading the seed

The average Black male
Live a third of his life in a jail cell
'Cause the world is controlled
By the white male
And the people don't never get justice
And the women don't never get respected
And the problems don't never get solved
And the jobs don' never pay enough
So the rent always be late can you relate?
We living in a police state

No more bondage, no more political monsters
No more secret space launchers
Government departments started it
In the projects
Material objects, thousands up in the closets
Could've been invested in a
Future for my comrades battle contacts
Primitive weapons out in combat
Many never come back
Pretty niggas be running with gats
Rather get shot in they back than fire back
We tired of that, corporations hiring Blacks
Denying the facts exploiting us
All over the map that's why I write the shit
I write in my raps
It's documented, I'm in it
Every day of the week I live in it
Breathing it
It's more than just fucking believing it
I'm holding M1's
Rolling up my sleeves n' shit
It's Cee-lo for push-ups now
Many headed for one conclusion
Niggas ain't ready for revolution

The average Black male
Live a third of his life in a jail cell
'Cause the world is controlled
By the white male
And the people don't never get justice
And the women don't never get respected
And the problems don't never get solved
And the jobs don' never pay enough
So the rent always be late can you relate?
We living in a police state

I am a revolutionary
And you’re gonna have to keep on sayin' that
You’re gonna have to say that
‘I am the proletariat’ ‘I am the people’
‘I am not the pig’
Giuliani you are full of shit!
And anybody that’s down with you!
You could man make things better for us
And you cuttin' the welfare
Knowin' damn well when you cut the welfare
A person gon' do crime