Can You Feel It

Now can you feel it, why my people left out in the streets Ain't got no shoes on they feet, that baby ain't got nothing to eat Now can you feel it, she got three babies, now daddy's a lifer, over drug money Now it's no money for them diapers, that's f*ck up Now can you feel it, you ask me why I'm mad Cause building prisons is a new industry and 95% of the inmates look like me Now can you feel it, you understand Now can you feel that shit, man, that's fucked up Got me in tears, how could we be so fooled Why for so many years, why could you know a lie Holding inside , and let so many died What kind of world is this Run from the police and they just might shoot ya And these schools start these kids out with no future Show love in the hood it ain't mutual A lot of times people wanna hate ya, despite ya That's a problem we gotta deal with and that's major When I wake up in the morning, grab my blessings Wanna take em to the hood and just spread em Wanna smoke a little bit of that reefer Cause I know that my niggas be stressed Hold up, let me take a little time out To show y'all what I really rhyme bout Gotta mix a little truth with the bullshit Just to make em really wanna go and find out Behold a pale horse blew my mind out Jeff K, eat the cake, bitch, Anna may Pick a president who got no say and he pimped out on us every day Now can you feel it, be united or die Now can you hear me Revolution won't be won with a gun Ain't got a community, better build you one Ain't got a gun, better get you one Got no land, better get you some To the cold hearted , if you can feel this shit Man, than my job here done Now can you feel it Why my people left out in the streets Ain't got no shoes on they feet That baby ain't got nothing to eat Now can you feel it She got three babies, now daddy is a lifer Over drug money, now it's no money for them diapers That's fucked up Now can you feel it You ask me why I'm mad Cause building prisons is a new industry And 95% of the inmates look like me Now can you feel it Huh You understand Can you feel that shit Man, that's fucked up Where's your compassion I'm looking for a glimpse of hope, that's all I'm asking I just wanna see some concern The house on fire, don't let it burn As the world turned, the world turned against us We went from plantations to penitentiaries History books distorting my memory This can't be life I know this ain't what it's supposed to be like Hanging young brothers from the streetlights Just cause we look like what we look like The truth's so strange, don't seem right Right in front of your face, but you can't see right Can't see right, cause you've been blinded Like I was, since I was knee high Now can you feel me Hurtn an only truth can heal me To the nation inside of the nation Come up out of her if you can hear me Now can you feel me For the men that ain't got no family Find a boy that ain't got no daddy And teach the little one to be manly Understand me Now can you feel me Alarm clock, you better wake up Steady trying to figure out the lie Better figure out why that lie was made up Shit, I'm kicking bricks But, i might as well grab some accers A dollar ain't worth shit, but I might as well stack some paper Stack some paper Now can you feel it Why my people left out in the streets Ain't got no shoes on they feet That baby ain't got nothing to eat Now can you feel it She got three babies Now daddy is a lifer Overdrug money Now it's no money for them diapers That's fucked up Now can you feel it You ask me why I'm mad Cause building prisons is a new industry And 95% of the inmates look like me Now can you feel it Huh You don't understand Can you feel that shit Man, that's fucked up