featuring Tae

[Talib Kweli talking]

The other day I was walking passing when you was on the way to

meet my pops you know and this white boy stops me talking

'bout he be in the National Socialist something or other

trying to sell me a paper and give me some uh Free Mumia

pamphlets. So you know I'm in a hurry right and i told him

right and he tried to check me like 'Have you ever even heard

of the Black Panthers, and Mumia was fighting so you could go to

college, and...' All this, and I'm like, "dude, you don't even know

me, man. I don't even fucking go here, man. I know who the

fuck Mumia is, man. Innocent niggas get locked up every day, man.

That ain't nothing new..."

But, yo, on the other hand, you tell some brothers Mumia's on

death row, and they think he's making records with Suge Knight.

I don't know, man, I guess it just really where you at, you know

what I'm sayin'...Bust it.

[Talib Kweli]

Niggas on the street running like slaves

Trying to eat, yo, we averages

Twenty one years from the graves, back to baby carriages

The same hypocrites screaming pro-life and marriages

Be using religion to justify our savageness

'How bad is this?'

You and the creator need a mediator

Your priest is human

Your relationship with God is greater

The men who think they hard

Steady issuing death penalties

The people got no right to life cause they all slaves mentally

You turned'Thou Shall Not Kill' into a sham of a commandment

Your interpretation I cram to understand it

Like light

So if America is majority white

The the prison's another country like James Baldwin

Blacks and latinos all in the system