Candid Camera

Cameras are always watching so there is nothing private when you are out in public The average citizen in New York is videotaped or photographed 100 to 200 times a day, and We clearly understand that this is just a part of our reality But the NYPD's facial recognition technology takes being on camera a step further And exactly where the department's cameras are placed is raising concern Hustlers occupied with hazardous waste Catch a case, never see the signals To run his plot and to snatch a base Never make it home, his money low He may take a loan, assignments for his own Break his bones or clap his plates He don't have that profit back Archie asking where Malcolm at Never show your back to the door These are facts in a war You getting dragged like it's slacks on the floor We need our bags, I ain't asking for more But you don't hear me though I'm the spook by the door If you ain't clearly know a couple shockwaves for decor And I sincerely show Home is where the hatred is, pedophiles in the Satanist Collaborate where neighbors live I don't know what to make of this, it's trouble We need a huddle I'm calling plays and building castles In the sky out of rubble I feed a couple of strays that muffle Let it ricochet in the darkness They are targets, regardless of where the mark is Children grow up fast and wish They could sift through the trash and gifts These fiends sit on ass and piss Cameras gotta capture the cast and clips Action, play it back, cut it though Next scene, move from reality shows It's just another screen With a single player option Motherfuck a team And you ain't got no time to reset This as far as we get Captured in a box Im Red like Fox The page turns, native mounds buried The elders worried, no sage burned Shackled to an institution A couple of slaves learned Some of them rebelled and brought them hell And stayed firm I just have an issue with hypocrites Don Rickle this We roast motherfuckers with missiles and non-fickleness Girls idolized and manufactured And pussy poppers Objectified googly eyes From all the cookie monsters And this is just the world we gotta live in I'm grateful for my blessings But my lessons been forbidden, who kidding I see human trash daily But a comet like Haley waving its tail in I'd rather scale 10 Than sell it to a frail friend None of us think about the jail then And post up on the block like the mailman But niggas fucking kids Skipping bins, splitting wigs, spitting fibs And they wishing that you fell then Children grow up fast and wish They can sip through the trash and gifts These fiends sit on ass and piss Cameras gotta capture the cast And clips, action Play it back, cut it though, next scene Move from reality shows It's just another screen With a single player option, motherfuck a team And you ain't got no time to reset This is as far as we get More than 15,000 NYPD cameras are across neighborhoods of color In Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn highlighted in this map, in East New York alone More than 570 cameras were found at intersections the study suggesting the NYPD is Using this Technology to amplify racist policing