Intro: Michelle Alexander interview clip 1

Easy Lee: if I told u prison numbers you would think I was lying / but no Pinocchio I'm rebel I was born to collide / with the stars & the stripes / burning like Bob every night / pick up a gun or a mic / I picked up Tyson I fight / vicious the message might bite / stitches and ice get you right / called up some righteous emcees to bounce ideas and co-write / then do like Johnny Cash in Folsom spit this song in the pen / right where they piling us in / yea yea we at it again / the remix

Hook: they want you locked up / so pay attention where you shop, where you cop and where you drop off / they want you locked up / Ridin’ Dirty was a classic but be smarter out in traffic these days / locked up / so pay attention where you shop, where you cop and where you drop off / they want you locked up / locked up / they want us locked up

Bavu Blakes: they want you Akon'd / can't get away unless you some kinda McGyver / maybe liver like a James Bond / nonfiction genre / felons write memoirs / autobiography in rap form -- prison bars / flamboyant as Rick Ross blowin' freely / set up for free labor where my baby can barely see me / my lady can rarely see me on their handheld device / look how I've handled my life / look now they handed me life / my appeal ain’t appealing since my paper disappeared / wood without veneer I want jury to hear / how they flippin' government cash / turning coloreds to billions of buckets abundant with cash / callin’ it caste / callin’ it class / callin’ by race ethnic and socio-economics so toxic with waste, wait … / one with the bass the bottom / poor in the pocket rich with potential and faith … Blakes

IQ: I can’t help it I’m a hopeless romantic / man I sleep with my money / it broke my world when them people was taking it from me / what about my girl I call her daddy’s world I promise I’ll be faithful / fuck the world let my case prevail I promise I’ll be grateful / I know more felons than fathers / I see more jackas than jobs / what’s with these laws just trying to get what was ours / what about the RICO what about the feds / what about the crooked cops that keep spraying / what about the dead what am I saying / why they never make the bed that they lay in … Jim Crow

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Greezo: I see the crooked cops and politicians politicking / scheming see they dreaming just to keep us all locked up in prison / I got a proposition my proposal isn’t normal treat em like they treat us cuz my nigga fuck being cordial / I inherited skin color like Harriet / black and arrogant / them crackers say that’s the very end / Miranda rights ain’t read somehow they bury it / red and blue lights keep flashing behind my chariot

MexStep: we’re still making less and we’re still losing cases / black and brown natives face mass incarceration / from racial profiling car truck or SUV / targeting the young dark skinned human beings / searching person vehicle and property / ask for name and ID then sold into slavery / no vote no voice / felon on release / blocked by institutions / hunted by police

D.O.S.: hard times duckin the rollers / but we ain’t have no quarters man we wasn’t even holding / just posted on a Sunday afternoon playing tunes when / we got scolded by some uniformed goons / was told to freeze / stop and frisk / they rough you up if you resist / wrong move will have a young brother on the news / and it’s fatal / they label us criminal since prenatal / stay locking us away let’s do society a favor

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Michelle Alexander interview clip 2

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