Police State Lyrics - Let's Get Free - Dead Prez

You have the emergence in human society 

Of this thing that's called the State 

What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy 

It is the police department, it is the Army, the Navy 

It is the prison system, the courts and what have you 

This is the State it is a repressive organization 

But the State and gee, well, you know you've got to have 

The police because if there were no police 

Look at what you'd be doing to yourselves 

You'd be killing each other if there were no police 

But the reality is the police become necessary in human society 

Only at that junction in human society where it is split 

Between those who have and those who ain't got 

I throw a Molotov cocktail at the precinct, you know how we think 

Organize the hood under I Ching banners 

Red, black and green instead of gang bandannas 

FBI spying on us through the radio antennas 

And them hidden cameras in the streetlight watching society 

With no respect for the people's right to privacy 

I'll take a slug for the cause like Huey P. 

While all you fake niggas try to copy Master P I want to be free to live 

Hey but, they have what I need to live 

Bring the power back to the street where the people live 

I'm sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons 

Dying over money and relying on religion for help 

We do for self like ants in a colony 

Organize the wealth into a socialist economy 

A way of life based off the common need 

And all my comrades are ready, we just spreading the seed 

The average black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 

'Cause the world is controlled by the white male 

And the people don' never get justice 

And the women don' never get respected 

And the problems don' never get solved 

And the jobs don' never pay enough 

So the rent always be late 

Can you relate? We living in a Police State 

No more bondage, no more political monsters 

No more secret space launchers 

Government departments started it in the projects 

Material objects, thousands up in the closets 

Could've been invested in a future for my comrades 

Battle contacts, primitive weapons out in combat 

Many never come back, pretty niggas be running with gats 

Rather get shot in they back than fire back, we tired of that 

Corporations hiring blacks, denying the facts 

Exploiting us all over the map 

That's why I write the shit, I write in my raps 

It's documented, I'm in it 

Everyday of the week I live in it, breathing it 

It's more than just fucking believing it 

I'm holding in ones, rolling up my sleeves an' shit 

It's Cee-lo for push-ups, now 

Many headed for one conclusion 

Niggas ain't ready for revolution 

The average black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 

'Cause the world is controlled by the white male 

And the people don' never get justice 

And the women don' never get respected 

And the problems don' never get solved 

And the jobs don' never pay enough 

So the rent always be late 

Can you relate? We living in a Police State 

That's right that developed me 

Brought me here and worked me like an animal 

Built the political economy off my stolen labor 

Made them rich, made me poor 

The average black male live a third of his life in a jail cell 

'Cause the world is controlled by the white male 

And the people don' never get justice 

And the women don' never get respected 

And the problems don' never get solved 

And the jobs don' never pay enough 

So the rent always be late 

Can you relate? We living in a police state 

Why is it that black people and everybody like us 

Live in the kind of poverty and misery that we live in? 

Everywhere I look around me are nothing but poverty and misery 

On the one hand and yet, what I'm seeing is that 

Everywhere there's wealth and riches in the world 

It's in the white community somewhere 

Whether it's in Europe or whether it's right cross the 

Street from where I was born