[ar:Immortal Technique] [ti:Harlem Streets] [00:03.79]Harlem Streets - Immortal Technique [00:21.08]Yeah Harlem streets stay flooded in white powder [00:25.69]Like those mother****ers running away from the Twin Towers [00:28.75]Gun shots rock the earth like a meteor shower [00:31.37]Bowling For Columbine fair giving the media power [00:34.38]Innocence devoured like a chicken spot snack box [00:37.11]Government cocaine cooked into ghetto crack rock [00:40.03]Corrupt cops false testimony at your arraignment [00:42.86]Check to check constant struggle to make the payments [00:45.78]Working your whole life wondering where the day went [00:48.42]The subway stays pakced like a multi-cultural slave ship [00:51.60]It's rush hour 2:30 to 8 non stoppin' [00:53.81]And people coming home after corporate share croppin [00:56.62]And **** flossin mothers are trying to feed children [01:00.05]But gentrification is kicking them out of their building [01:02.78]A generation of babies born without health care [01:05.59]Families homeless thrown the **** off of the welfare [01:12.09]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:17.76]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:23.51]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:29.07]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:31.04]It's like Cambodia the killing fields uptown [01:34.23]We live in distress and hang the flag upside down [01:37.10]The sound of conservative politicians on television [01:40.04]People in the hood are blind so they tell us to listen [01:43.04]They vote for us to go to war instantly [01:45.85]But none of their kids serving the infantry [01:48.65]The odds are stacked against us like a casino [01:51.40]Think about it most of the army is black and latino [01:54.26]And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words [01:57.14]You just another stupid mother ****er out on the curb [02:00.01]Trying to escape from the ghetto with your ignorant ways [02:02.46]But you can't read history at an illiterate stage [02:05.78]And you can't raise a family on minimum wage [02:08.69]Why the **** you think most of us are locked in a cage [02:11.43]I give niggaz the truth cause they pride is indigent [02:14.24]You better off rich and guilty than poor and innocent [02:17.18]But I'm sick of feeling impotent watching the world burn [02:20.24]In the era of apocalypse waiting my turn [02:22.97]I'm a Harlem nigga that's concerned with the future [02:25.65]And if your in my way it'd be an honor to shoot ya [02:28.65]Up root ya with the evil that grows in my people [02:31.22]Making them deceitful cannibalistic and lethal [02:34.22]But I see through the mentality implanted in us [02:37.18]And I educate my fam about who we should trust [02:43.42]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [02:49.03]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [02:54.77]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [03:00.45]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem