The Trap

[Intro: Speaking]

Judge not lest ye shall be judged. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

Until you have walked a mile in a man's shoes you can not judge a man

[Verse One]

What if that was you born to the left of the tracks?

The place where you grow up is infested with rats

The Army didn't segregate that

Everybody who could, left in a snap

And never looked back

And since they've been gone they haven't invested in jack

Left very few ways for you to generate scratch

Your school is under funded, your teachers over worked

And when it comes to text books you gotta settle for scraps

And seldom when trapped

The wall pressed to your back

Can we ever think of anything except to react

If you ain't Einstein, you just a regular cat

And your self preservation is a medical fact

Then done set you up a helluva trap

They put bait in your face and if you take it then you never get back

What kind of set up is that?

The justice is just that

Just us, a public defender, his head up his ass

You're headed to a place where slavery is legal

And you being a human ain't no relevant fact

And if you play nice

You might escape with your life

And get a release date but don't celebrate yet!

Cause they're sending you back

To where you fell threw the cracks

Except now it's harder because you got a felony rap

Might get an interview but your resume's jacked

And the second they find out you got an F it's a wrap

In the 70's cats, from the ghetto made rap

Unifying worldwide, we all felt the impact

But the company that stole out, they sellin' it back

Stripped all down to, really, the irrelevant crap

And the message is that

If you poor you black

Throw some shells up in the gat and go and sell you some crack

Then you'll have shiny things and money in stacks

And Destiny's Child will want to fuck you for that

Look how the fuckin' deck has been stacked

And the effect it can have on you feelin' you never had a chance

Don't be judging people in a second at a glance

Or act superior because the blessings that you had

God don't prefer you, He's testing your ass

With the benefit you're givin', you're expected to pass

Take a look in the mirror

Reflect on that

Just might be a hypocrite reflecting in the glass

With yo bitch ass!