[Hook: Juicy J] They don't wanna see us up, they just wanna lock us all down And we tell em let us go, but they just wanna see us on our legs We just tryna get some money Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe We just tryna feed our family Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe
[Verse 1: Juicy J] They gunning niggas down on the street People scared to call the police so they copping up some heat We ain't scared of going to jail, we ain't hiding from police They don't give a fuck about us, dropping bodies on TV Black man on arm, shot down in black Jordan 1's They got this shit on tape, they go to trial they won We can't catch a break, I pray to god with my chopp Just to keep some faith, I pray the angels is watching I feel like we the target and who the hell is safe When the neighborhood watch poking out taking shots Niggas caught with the work, they get 40 years Cops killing left and right, they get no years
[Hook: Juicy J] They don't wanna see us up, they just wanna lock us all down And we tell em let us go, but they just wanna see us on our legs We just tryna get some money Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe We just tryna feed our family Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe
[Verse 2: GOD] Uh, I just been trying to get paid I'm trying to find different ways We ain't been able to breathe since back in the days when we was all slaves I used to answer the [?] Now [?] I'm bout to take them to church, get hit with the verse You gonna think I'm a pastor Revelation or the revolution They can't hold us with a prosecution I'm a rolling nigga in my institution I'ma school em all on a new solution If they haters then let em hate Cause they gonna hate on us anyways They wanna lock us in the petition When they let us out we gonna penetrate Pay attention let me demonstrate Police hop out, gun in my face Hands up, I ain't got it on me, I have it on me any other day But I had a bag of loud on me, some shit I had from the other day I took off and tried to run, he shot me in my back tryna get away
[Hook: Juicy J] They don't wanna see us up, they just wanna lock us all down And we tell em let us go, but they just wanna see us on our legs We just tryna get some money Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe We just tryna feed our family Let us breathe, let us breathe, let us breathe
[Verse 3: Juicy J] I got a lot of people I ride for People I die for Real niggas never change After all the pain in the game I done lost so many niggas I forgot who I cry for Damn shame change Memphis ain't change Everywhere in the world, the hood is the same Racist police, niggas killin' niggas Drug wars, makin' millions Hustle to survive, we don't know no difference Imagine being us, out here no one to trust Every time I hear the news, another nigga in the dust Prosecute his work, to keep us all in that bus All in them trains til somebody turn state witness And fuck up the game