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You should've been downtown (Yeah) The people are risin' (Yeah) We thought it was a lockdown (What? Yeah) They opened the fire (Damn) Them bullets was flyin' (Ooh) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Uh, look) It's a war goin' on outside, I swear to God I'm on the front line, no front, no cap, no fun size Sunshine, cinnamon skin, people blend in together and ride Side by side, organize, we bust guns at the same time, harmonize Form a line, pick a lead, take a leap, leap with love Please, you sound like Dr. King People tired of takin' beatings from beasts covered in sheets I love niggas but we too forgivin' for how they treated us Reparations, though, we tryna get even Just run the paper, maybe then we can start the conversation Common ground, prison compounds full of my fuckin' people How you still sleepin'? Have you had your coffee this evening? You care? 'Cause you seem a little off All the black girls missin' and endin' up inside the coffins But you mad when there's "#BlackLivesMatter" on front your sidewalks Diabolical thoughts, die, trial from dialogues Damagin' images of men and women who died off fightin' for civil rights A simple necessity given when you given life Letras de cancionesBut we been trippin'? Right (Skrrt) You should've been downtown (Ooh) The people are risin' (Ah) We thought it was a lockdown They opened the fire (Bah, bah, ooh-wee) Them bullets was flyin' (Lockdown) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (We ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to) Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound, got it in my name now, I'ma shoot it Uh, maybe this round two Government cinematic, American drive-through Eat their apple pie in the mornin' and bury the strange fruit Then marry the strange fruit and call it the Black love So when he bleeds, I bleed the sacred riddle Had no money I can make some so the cops get little We seen 'em murder in vision, has the past [?] The Constitution, a life for a bag of Skittles? So when we bleed I load the sacred pistol And if you need, I'll be aside on wit' you And if you're rich, I pray to God, forgive you You're supposed to share the garden, grow the Holy in you Maybe everything is a metaphor, one God And African liberation is ready to take on They tellin' you, "Stay calm," and double barrel the shotty And stand on a graveyard and tell you to, "Slave on" Downtown (Down) The people are risin' (Look around) We thought it was a lockdown (Lockdown) They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire) Them bullets was flyin' (Down, down) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ooh-wee) Turn on your tube, dawg, look how they do us Knee on our necks, bullets in backs Stimulus checks strictly for blacks? History repeatin', people scared to eat a chicken Everybody goin' vegan, what they put in it? Look at the world we livin' in, they got us shook in it And then you go on your jog Then your colour might get you took in it Man in the mirror, can’t look away, you gotta look at it Black Lives Matter, so what it means when they shoot at it? Generation, genocide, what happened to enterprise? Heard the man infiltrated, Black Panther, re-energize Nothin' to figure out, they tryna kill us out If I take a kneel, see my fist? I’m a killer now Just think, bullshit, you gotta filter out Are you really ready for the smoke like a Swisher house? Ready for the revolution, who ready to ride? It won’t be televised, so tell me, who ready to die? Know the difference from a plan and a pandemic Just a bunch of bullshit, how we land in it? You either fall for anything or you stand in it It's a lot goin' on in this damn mission Big BG used to sell Michael chips Now he out here pushin' vaccines? It's about to be another lockdown Feelin' like D.C., fuck you mean? Lockdown (Down) The people are risin' (Look around) We thought it was a lockdown (Lockdown) They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire) Them bullets was flyin' (Down, down) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ooh-wee) Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound (Uh), got it in my name now, I'ma shoot it Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown (Citizens of Los Angeles I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly And in the name of the people of the State of California Command all those assembled Right here) From Letras Mania