Cops Keep Firing

[Hook: Nas sample & Jay-Z sample]

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

(Green Lantern!)

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

I’d like to see them fall, guilty for doing raw

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

[Verse 1: Nas]

Now all you hypocrites, witness the injustice

Conversations taped illegally, then they cuff us

U.S. attorneys, public defenders send us off to hard prison time

Whether you innocent or did the crime

Say you come from Hooters, cops pursue you hard

Run your place, put guns in your face

Put you in the car for nothing (Green Lantern!)

Now you struggling, tied up, standing in line-ups

Call your lawyer, they charge you for murder

Why? ‘Cause these liars

Say you shot another man in his driveway

Guilty, just for being Black on a Friday

Polygraph test, you’re failing, because you’re nervous

Charged with murder you didn’t commit, then they serve ya

Fifteen years, maximum security

Slashing, stab wounds, broken bone, injuries

You were placed there intentionally

Either you bang or you miss me

Listen to me, this is true!

[Hook: Nas sample & Jay-Z sample]

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

I’d like to see them fall, guilty for doing raw

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

[Verse 2: Nas]

Death sentences is cold as see-your-own-breath temperatures (Invasion!)

When your old life and the ten-point program didn’t mix

Panthers, founded October ’66

Next year, police arrest the Minister of Defense

Newton, for shooting and killing a pig in Oakland

“Free Huey, the sky’s the limit!” became the slogan

Jail bars open, then Huey told ‘em:

“Let my brothers free with me and slam the jail bars closed then”

I go then to say today, “Where are those men?”

Slaughtered by COINTELPRO and coke, and

Heroin, this era we in, we think we chilling

In our Harry Winston, in our high-priced clothing

Some of these P.D.s is tired of us

They got they orders from they higher-ups to line us up

From age and up, then they fire on us

The inconvenient truth got them lying to us

The Evil Genius!

[Hook: Nas sample & Jay-Z sample]

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

Cops keep firing, in my environment

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

I’d like to see them fall, guilty for doing raw

Middle finger to the law, nigga, gripping my balls

[Outro: Nas & Paul Mooney sample]

You still wanna be a nigga too?

White folks shouldn’t’ve made up “nigga,” I didn’t make it up. It’s too bad. I say “nigga” a hundred times every morning. It makes my teeth white. “Nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga, nigga.” I ain’t scared of that word