Harlem Streets-Immortal Technique

[ti:Harlem Streets] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:Revolutionary Vol.2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Harlem Streets - Immortal Technique [00:21.08]Yeah Harlem streets stay flooded in white powder [00:25.70]Like those motherf**kers running away from the Twin Towers [00:28.75]Gun shots rock the earth like a meteor shower [00:31.38]Bowling For Columbine fair giving the media power [00:33.62] [00:34.38]Innocence devoured like a chicken spot snack box [00:37.12]Government coc*ine cooked into ghetto crack rock [00:40.04]Corrupt cops false testimony at your arraignment [00:42.23] [00:42.87]Check to check constant struggle to make the payments [00:45.79]Working your whole life wondering where the day went [00:48.42]The subway stays pakced like a multi-cultural slave ship [00:50.90] [00:51.60]It's rush hour 2:30 to 8 non stoppin' [00:53.06] [00:53.81]And people coming home after corporate share croppin [00:56.62]And f**k flossin mothers are trying to feed children [01:00.05]But gentrification is kicking them out of their building [01:02.17] [01:02.79]A generation of babies born without health care [01:05.60]Families homeless thrown the f**k off of the welfare [01:08.16] [01:12.09]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:14.28] [01:17.77]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:20.02] [01:23.51]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:25.76] [01:29.08]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [01:30.53] [01:31.04]It's like Cambodia the killing fields uptown [01:33.54] [01:34.24]We live in distress and hang the flag upside down [01:36.55] [01:37.11]The sound of conservative politicians on television [01:38.98] [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 [01:44.98] [01:45.85]But none of their kids serving the infantry [01:47.59] [01:48.66]The odds are stacked against us like a casino [01:50.77] [01:51.40]Think about it most of the army is black and latino [01:53.71] [01:54.27]And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words [01:56.45] [01:57.14]You just another stupid mother f**ker 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 [02:04.72] [02:05.78]And you can't raise a family on minimum wage [02:08.70]Why the f**k you think most of us are locked in a cage [02:11.44]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 [02:19.68] [02:20.24]In the era of apocalypse waiting my turn [02:22.42] [02:22.98]I'm a Harlem ni**a that's concerned with the future [02:25.66]And if your in my way it'd be an honor to shoot ya [02:28.66]Up root ya with the evil that grows in my people [02:31.23]Making them deceitful cannibalistic and lethal [02:33.42] [02:34.23]But I see through the mentality implanted in us [02:36.24] [02:37.18]And I educate my fam about who we should trust [02:39.56] [02:43.42]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [02:45.23] [02:49.03]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [02:51.47] [02:54.77]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem [02:57.08] [03:00.45]Homicide Harlem BLAOW what's the problem