Niggaz get locked down and always wanna make this shit look like

vacation or some shit (frontin ass niggaz) like they enjoyed theyself

Frontin ass niggaz, yo, yo, yo

Jump off the train and the first thing that I see

when I see the daylight, is a prison

I guess the government is tryin to plant negative seeds

Could it be my destiny's in the prison..

I keep awareness, cause that's where they want us

They put us in the projects, so projects become us

Don't believe me? Peep the bars on the windows

The intercoms, why we gotta live so close?

Cops beat us up often, like C.O.'s do

Got a problem? See the warden, when your rent is due

We got, workout spots now built on blocks

and ballcourts often watched by, housing cops

I guess the streets are the teachers, the elementaries

Then we graduate to college, get the prison degree

That's why jails are built so, close to us

Cause we never protest what's opposed to us

We went from pyramids to projects

Treated like unidentified objects

Life's a game and the devil's makin side bets

Drug us up but the seeds feel the side effects

Put our backs against the wall so we can't achieve

Pack us in so tight that we can barely breathe

Make us feel comfortable and we don't wanna leave

Throw us a bone, and no more do we feel the need

to have our own, tryin to seperate our familes and

broken homes, growin up with no identies it's - unknown

Put us back in this world, institutionalized

Not a pot to piss in, no solution arise

Out the pit evadin the rent son we was born to lose

In this world we livin in it make it hard to choose

right from wrong if doin wrong is what pays the dues

Life's a big mystery until we find the clues