Styles P, Talib Kweli - In the Field lyrics

Yeah it's black on black crime but
It's blue on black crime
Police killin' the brown man
And doing no time
The judge is a Nazi, but he ain't in the Klan
The jail's the plantation they spread
It across the land
I'm thinkin' what will that change?
If big industry money pays for campaigns
(think about it)
I know the 1 percenters lovin' that
The gov run the people
But people should run the government
The day of reckonin' is when
The sleep wakes up
And the 99 percenters can really cake up
I ain't go to Harvard or Yale, I went to jail
Behold a horse that's pale
And the slave ship sails it ain't on water
But I know who's steerin' it
The reptilians hid the truth


About the pyramids, damn
My genetics is kinetic, the devil is a lie
His agenda is pathetic

I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field but, I ain't a slave
I'm a king and that's real
I be in the field, I be in the field
(house nigga)
I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field if we ain't got freedom
We ain't got free will
I be in the field, I be in the field

Yeah there's black on black crime
But there's white on white crime
When you adjust for population all
The numbers they align
So why we never hear white on
White on the nightly news?
Ain't no profit in
Over-criminalizin' white dudes
Poverty breeds criminals but watch
What you call me
Because if I'm a criminal what
About bankers on Wall Street?
Or the fast food industry that
Be feeding us horse meat?
Been this way since in the fields
Picking sugar or coffee nigga
I ain't no house nigga, I be in the field
Probably with the steel now they
Got me on the wheel with the ghost
Too confident to be cocky to keep it real
We veto that phony shit and
Block it like a bill
Whether Bobby by the pound
Or Whitney by the ki
We movin' weight it's a mistake to
Get money and make it free
They'll lock up Jesus when they see
Wooly hair and burnt feet
If you a felon you a
Slave, remember the thirteenth, nigga

I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field but, I ain't a slave
I'm a king and that's real
I be in the field, I be in the field
(house nigga)
I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field if we ain't got freedom
We ain't got free will
I be in the field, I be in the field

I thought Barack could have been a
Spook who sat by the door
But he signed a dark act
Middle finger to the law
Now I gotta get a foreign plan to eat raw
But, I wouldn't be surprised if
They killed me on tour
Life is a bitch, America is a whore
Get sick and try to see
This little picture I draw
You can have a gun but need
Bullets to go to war
You already half-dead from the food
That's in the stores

Ghost these rappers ain't better
Tellin' tales so tall
A whole industry of employees pretendin'
That they the boss
Niggas that you thought was
Official is fallin' off
Shit ain't been the same since the '95 Source
Every breath that we take is a threat
They pissed off if we alive we get put in
The system and get lost
My mother scared for us
Prepared for the loss
But sayin' shit like if you die make
Sure you got on clean drawers

I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field but, I ain't a slave
I'm a king and that's real
I be in the field, I be in the field
(house nigga)
I ain't no house nigga, I be in
The field, I be in the field
I be in the field if we ain't got freedom
We ain't got free will
I be in the field, I be in the field

I'm a field negro just as the
Slave master of that day used
Tom, the house negro, to keep
The field negroes in check
The same old slave master today has
Negroes who are nothing but
Modern Uncle Tom's to keep you
And me in check
Keep us passive and peaceful it's
Like when you go to the dentist, and the man
Is gon' take your tooth
You gon' fight him when he start pulling so
They squirt some stuff in your jaw called
Novocaine, to make you think they not doing
Anything to you so you sit
There and cause you got all that
Novocaine in your jaw you suffer, peacefully