Jedi Mind Tricks - Shadow Business lyrics

"When you were over in American Samoa
What surprised you the most?"
"I guess what hit me the
Most was the condition
Of the factory that the workers were in
The factory was surrounded by a fence
And barbed wire on top, and on the bottom
And they have a chain linked
Fence around the whole factory
And military compound
The gate has a guard shack where the guard
Sit there and control the worker movement
In and out of the factory, the factory
Made of tin panels, tin roof
It's really hot
The temperature over there is
Regularly ninety degrees
And inside the factory
It reach way over a hundred degrees"

Yeah, it's a contemporary form of slavery


They call it slave labor
But they don't prosecute them cause
It's how they make paper
When you rocking that fly shit
That's made in China
By an eight year old child
Trying to feed his mama
He exposed to contamination and disease
And only fifty-five percent of
Them will get degrees
And the women have to try to placate the boss
Because of sex discrimination in
The labor force
The slave master only let them
Speak in sign language
And they suffering from lung
Disease and eye damage
Fourteen hour shifts, seven days a week
Two shitty meals a day, very little sleep
Human life only worth three cents an hour
All human rights lost, no sense of power
Working for a hundred years
In the grave passes
Only the improved cleverness of slave masters

Is life worth living if you living in Hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
And the lies they devise and the system
It fail but I expect the system to fail
Is life worth living if you living in Hell?
When the mind is confined to a prisoner cell?
And the lies they devise and the system
It fail but I expect the system to fail

"Many Chinese workers are forced
To sign secret agreements
Known as "Shadow contracts" before
They leave China severely, and in some ways
Illegally restricting their activities
While on american soil
Workers are forbidden to participate in
Any religious or political activities
Or to ask for a salary increase
Or even to fall in love or get married"

It's 16 million people locked in jail
They the new slave labor force
Trapped in Hell they generate over a billion
Dollars worth of power
And only gettin' paid twenty cents an hour
They make clothes for McDonald's
And for Applebee's
And working forty-hour shifts
In prison factories
And while we sit around debating
Who the wack MC's
They have to work when arthritic
Pain attack the knees
Slavery's not illegal, that's a fucking lie
It's illegal
Unless it's for conviction of a crime
The main objective is to get
You in your fucking prime
And keep the prison full and not
Give you a fucking dime
But they the real criminal
Keeping you confined for a petty crime
But they give you two-to-nine
And ain't nobody there to protect ya
Except a bunch of incompetent
Human rights inspectors

"The sweatshop situation kind of conveys it
And kind of take advantage of
The people that are poor and
At an economic disadvantage"
"This Chinese woman made t-shirts and
Pants at the factory
Until she became pregnant says she
Refused to have the abortion
And has now been barred
From entering the factory"
"Allowing them to bring that onto US
Soil is a very big concern
We've now documented the fact that
Management coerces female workers
Who become pregnant into having abortions"
"Human rights workers say
It's common practice"
"Inside that factory, Chinese law applies
And Chinese law is supreme"
"Even though it's the United
States of America?"
"The flag doesn't fly inside there"