[00:15.07]Can't you see we livin' in a war zone?
[00:17.86]Guess you don't notice when you livin' in it
[00:20.31]Like every weekend it's a man down
[00:23.17]Ain't got no pity for the innocent so I'ma represent it
[00:26.38]Dedicated, tell 'em,"Hands up, can't breathe
[00:29.81]Hands up, can't breathe
[00:32.42]Hands up, can't breathe"
[00:35.21]Hands up, can't you see we livin' in a war zone?
[00:39.11]They left his body swangin' down in Piedmont
[00:40.95]At a Klan rally the day before, but that ain’t mean nothing
[00:43.80]Witness say a suicide, I say it's genocide
[00:46.56]Hey what you got a gun for? Boy you ain’t finna ride
[00:49.49]They run up on you like Baton Rouge, bet you finna hide
[00:51.90]That's the difference 'tween us, I'll die to save a million lives
[00:54.50]Appointed leader when nobody couldn't think of ****
[00:57.37]I'll be a martyr if my great grandaughter benefit
[01:00.22]They pull you over, ask you where your license at
[01:02.86]Be careful reachin' for it, you know you can die for that
[01:05.86]And this ain't nothin' new, just got cameras so you can see the ****
[01:08.36]Got Dr. King and Abe Lincoln askin' where the freedom at
[01:11.75]This ain't no equality
[01:13.90]Man you ain't have no justice on your mind when you shot at me
[01:16.80]But **** it, this the way it gotta be
[01:18.92]Hey listen, you won't shoot at them then shoot at me?
[01:21.17]Boy you are not a G
[01:22.92]Imagine Trayvon askin' why you followed me
[01:24.92]Feel threatened, hit him and whip him, that’s when he shot him down
[01:27.54]Do that to a grown ******' man, drop where you stand
[01:31.24]Tell my grandma go on with all that prayin'
[01:32.98]If it's a God and he in the sky, he looking down, he understand
[01:35.68]I'm just a man, and I'm wrong for revenge
[01:37.73]But I don't get 'em it's like tellin' him to gon' kill again
[01:40.84]Keep ******* around, it’s going to be on in a minute
[01:44.70]Boy we livin' in a war zone
[01:45.85]Guess you don't notice when you livin' in it
[01:48.35]Like every weekend it's a man down
[01:51.06]Ain't got no pity for the innocent so I'ma represent it
[01:54.45]Dedicated, tell 'em,"Hands up, can't breathe
[01:57.61]Hands up, can't breathe
[02:00.30]Hands up, can't breathe"
[02:03.22]Hands up, can't you see we livin' in a war zone?
[02:06.47]This goes to the white boy that ran in the old church
[02:08.66]I hope you get slow murked, and they torture you slow first
[02:11.41]Ran in our place of worship to slaughter our grandma
[02:14.01]Won't go kamikaze for that, well what would you die for?
[02:17.26]Hold up... I'll wait, I'll wait
[02:19.71]Heard it from buddy who took for the fall for Watergate
[02:22.62]The war on drugs was just a war on us
[02:25.01]Give us all these guns, give us all this dust
[02:27.81]Change all them laws, lock all of us up
[02:30.46]Went from Freeway Ricky, on to BMF (free Meech)
[02:33.31]Then hip hop came, that's when we got rich
[02:35.97]Cause white kids gravitated to it like all us did
[02:38.76]And that's when they got slick
[02:40.21]Invented the technology to take our ****
[02:42.21]Diluted all of the artistry
[02:44.31]Pardon me, somebody tell me what happened to Alton
[02:46.91]Sterling, killed Philando right in front of the girl
[02:49.65]And the world saw
[02:50.76]Everybody's reaction was, "Hell naw"
[02:52.65]This modern day slavery, the prison publicly traded
[02:55.09]And the jig's up
[02:56.29]The Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation's just a ******' piece of paper
[03:00.02]Can't you see we livin' in a war zone?
[03:02.41]Guess you don't notice when you livin' in it
[03:05.20]Like every weekend it's a man down
[03:08.00]Ain't got no pity for the innocent so I'ma represent it
[03:11.08]Dedicated, tell 'em,"Hands up, can't breathe
[03:14.47]Hands up, can't breathe
[03:17.26]Hands up, can't breathe"
[03:20.27]Hands up, can't you see we livin' in a war zone?