Prison-X-Clan

[ti:Prison] [ar:X-Clan] [al:Return From Mecca] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Prison (监狱) - X-Clan [00:01.20]Slavery is back In fact it was never abolished The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery Except in prison [00:10.50]At The current rate of incarceration By the year 2010 the majority of all African American men between 18 and 40 will be in prison The State as their captor [00:20.98] [00:21.73]It's gonna take people who are willing to fight [00:23.91]Not people who wanna negotiate with the enemy [00:26.66]Prison prison prison prison [00:27.73] [00:48.33]The pits of life contain men [00:50.14]Where reform and discipline unlabeled enslaved men [00:52.70]From rights of passage to stacking arraignments [00:55.38]To sporting the iron bars disgracing the pavements [00:58.26]It's just like cavemen from the pages of myth [01:00.87]Cohabiting in darkness while we wallow in filth [01:03.56]Generations of jewels who trickle down to abyss [01:06.18]As blood stains these prisons like the pyramid glyphs [01:08.92]Guilty or innocent agents of government [01:11.55]Treat our hoods like pickin grounds (schools to tenements) [01:14.11]All sag in uniform as thugs they represent [01:16.97]Racial stereotypes a profile for the oppressed [01:19.59]When you witness genocide everyday you get the hint [01:22.47]That the ghettos are cold like a lab experiment [01:25.10]As young women and men street hustle before they're ten [01:27.90]Graduating from juvenile halls then up the river to the [01:30.65]Prison prison prison prison [01:33.28] [01:41.69]Fear and oppression plague generation next [01:44.05]The house of regret locks down our street vets [01:46.74]Regroup and repair we lost sight of our mission [01:49.54]With honor we ride for justice we must remain out the [01:52.85]Prison prison prison prison [01:54.78] [02:02.81]We trade wisdom for greed we trade light for wealth [02:05.68]Fools wait for lock down to find knowledge of self [02:08.24]I bang hard on the left I never fiend for cream [02:10.92]If you borrow you owe it if you take it you know you're goin to the prison [02:14.74]The penalty for criminal states [02:16.04]If you're herb or bird man you're steady runnin from jakes [02:19.04]I circle with street soldiers that build and plant stakes [02:21.78]Free the land from Babylon my skills educate [02:24.40]In these United Snakes cause there's no debate [02:27.22]With these restrictions of law makes us communists of hate [02:29.90]New world of new focus the streets need to deal with new purpose [02:33.51]The eldership is lacking the cirus of guidance it's deep [02:36.57]The prison state of mind will have you dead in the street yelling P I M P [02:40.13] [02:40.86]If you're stressed fake playa cards to rest [02:43.34]Tell youths to stay in school research and manifest [02:46.28]Avoid [02:46.66]Slave ways from the whip to the gauge [02:48.90]From streets to the cage we stand judged cloak and dagger [02:51.78]Let twelve heads decide if you keep you're street swagger [02:54.40]Or be between bars as this crazed world gets madder [02:57.02]Come and heed funkin' lesson wise dome the mad hatter [02:59.70]Rock an onk off my dome cause I deal with life matters [03:02.50]It's straight genocide of my people and what's sadder [03:05.00]We bake devil's pie and put our heads in the batter [03:08.06]Prison prison prison prison