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[00:21.00]Yeah, Harlem streets stay flooded in white powder
[00:25.14]Like those mother******s runnin' away from the Twin Towers
[00:28.23]Gunshots rock the Earth like a meteor shower
[00:30.83]Bowlin' For Columbine, fear givin' the media power
[00:33.67]Innocence devoured like a chicken spot snack box
[00:36.71]Government ************* cooked into ghetto crack rock
[00:39.41]Corrupt cops' false testimony at your arraignment
[00:42.20]Check to check, constant struggle to make the payments
[00:45.03]Workin' your whole life, wonderin' where the day went
[00:47.99]The subway stays packed like a multi-cultural slave *************p
[00:51.13]It's rush hour, 2:30 to 8, non stoppin'
[00:53.82]And people comin' home after corporate sharecroppin'
[00:56.87]And ************* flossin'! Mothers are tryin' to feed children
[00:59.51]But gentrification is kickin' them out of their buildin'
[01:02.29]A generation of babies born without healthcare
[01:05.04]Families homeless, thrown the ************* off the welfare
[01:08.28]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[01:14.33]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[01:19.71]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[01:25.69]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[01:30.79]It's like Cambodia, "The Killing Fields" uptown
[01:33.44]We live in distress and hang the flag upside down
[01:36.27]The sound of conservative politicians on television
[01:39.27]People in the hood are blind, so they tell us to listen
[01:42.01]They vote for us to go to war instantly
[01:44.81]But none of their kids serve in the infantry
[01:47.75]The odds are stacked against us, like a casino
[01:50.60]Think about it: most of the Army is black and Latino
[01:53.28]And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words
[01:56.28]You just another stupid mother****** out on the curb
[01:59.13]Tryin' to escape from the ghetto with your ignorant ways
[02:01.87]But you can't read history at an illiterate stage
[02:04.71]And you can't raise a family on minimum wage
[02:07.56]Why the ************* you think most of us are locked in a cage?
[02:11.01]I give *************s the truth, 'cause their pride is indigent
[02:13.92]You better off rich and guilty than poor and innocent
[02:16.55]But I'm sick of feelin' impotent watchin' the world burn
[02:19.64]In the era of apocalypse, waitin' my turn
[02:22.35]I'm a Harlem ************* that's concerned with the future
[02:25.48]And if you're in my way it'd be an honor to shoot ya
[02:28.42]Uproot ya with the evil that grows in my people
[02:30.67]Makin' them deceitful, cannibalistic, and lethal
[02:33.70]But I see through the mentality implanted in us
[02:36.55]And I educate my fam about who we should trust
[02:39.65]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[02:45.63]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[02:51.17]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[02:56.90]Homicide Harlem, blaow! What's the problem?
[03:03.24]Blaow!