Police Myself

[Verse 1: Open Mike Eagle]

'Cause brothers looking like a criminal is probable cause

So if you black, you need to know all the applicable laws

I got a cop in my head and he stay on the beat

On duty 24 hours every day of the week

And when he blow his little whistle, I restrict myself

And when I'm walkin' in New York, I stop and frisk myself

And when it's time to make arrests, I don't resist myself

'Cause if I saw me in a lineup, I might pick myself

I ride clean but I still feel like I'm filthy as sin

'Cause I was raised thinkin' brown is the guiltiest skin

I got a cop in my head, so all the laws are inside me

Put on my turn signal, ain't nobody behind me

I buy weed with my cop and that's his personal hell

'Cause weed legal but I still feel like I'm going to jail

I live alone, making noise so my presence is known

Hoping he don't think it's a gun when I answer my phone

Officer Me

[Chorus: Open Mike Eagle]

Scared of the police, so I police myself (Officer Me)

Scared of the police, so I police myself (Officer Me)

I'm in custody but when will I release myself? (Officer Me)

He say it once and I don't make him repeat himself (Officer Me)

[Verse 2: MF DOOM]

Black has no standing at law

Whack, billy club bat to the jaw

They got the dogs and the gats at your door

If you're smart, get your ass on the floor

Yeah, villain within reason

No consumption, it's pig grilling season

Trees in black, white, Indonesian

You lackin' with no heat and it's freezing

Now send the cop in your head on a beer run

To see him die when he jump out your eardrum

It's even better than using a machine gun

After all, been dukin' him so long, it's been a mean run

A fleet of cars and three cribs redone

Don't touch the lawn and then pay the kid with the green thumb

They nervous like first time in a threesome

And shoot too early like precum

Yeah, pause, seem dumb

Sell 'em to hell, no refund

Profiled for a Philly and a down coat

Run through your mind, shooting unarmed brown folk

Bullcrap, you couldn't get out with cow soap

Like a rapper selling his soul and don't sound dope

All for naught, in the mall, he got caught

Crowd gathered like, "Yes, yes, y'all," an onslaught

[Chorus: Open Mike Eagle]

Scared of the police, so I police myself (Officer Me)

Scared of the police, so I police myself (Officer Me)

I'm in custody but when will I release myself? (Officer Me)

He say it once and I don't make him repeat himself (Officer Me)