(chorus 2x) know your enemy overstand y'all overstand y'all know your enemy
They got extraterrestrials livin in Arizona They got food so they-gats a bodegas in Corona They got media teli-vision locked down too brother hoodin snakes simplism lower channel two They got millions of dollers invested in crack not to mention cigarrets and alcohol on top of which they tax They got professors teaching only half the story nineteen-seventy five they created AIDS inside a laboratory They got me feelin like I'm on parole They got excuses for the people that they killed in the land they stole They got us thinkin we're players but their the pimps They got my dick inside they mouth and they all fulla shit
They got computer chips filled with secret manuscripts They got olympic games symbolic for howard's reign They got my fifteen sisters and brothers different brothers in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico on a search for one another They got me thinkin porn from like dusk till dawn They got my crew spelled out non phi-xi-on They got mobile phones that we purchase on a rental so they tap it to our lines and cause tumors on our temples They got mersionaries crooked crook in submarines They got us feelin dope is a way to self esteem They got fucked up leaders actin like disciplinaries But what they aint got is us hip hop evolutionaries