Lockdown

You should've been downtown Yeah The people are risin' Yeah We thought it was a lockdown What They opened the fire Damn Them bullets was flyin' Ooh Who said it was a lockdown Goddamn lie Oh my Time heals all but you out of time now Now Judge gotta watch us from the clock tower True Lil' tear gas cleared the whole place out I'll be back with the hazmat for the next round We was tryna protest then the fires broke out Look out for the secret agents they be planted in the crowd Said It's civil unrest but you sleep so sound Like you don't hear the screams when we catchin' beatdowns Stayin' quiet when they killin' niggas but you speak loud When we riot got opinions comin' from a place of privilege Sicker than the COVID how they did him on the ground Speakin' of the COVID is it still goin' around And won't you tell me 'bout the lootin' What's that really all about 'Cause they throw away black lives like paper towels Plus unemployment rate what forty million now Killed a man in broad day might never see a trial We just wanna break chains like slaves in the South Started in the North End but we in the downtown Riot cops tried to block now we got a showdown Citizens of Los Angeles Down I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly And in the name of the people of the State of California You should've been downtown Command all those assembled The people are risin' Right here We thought it was a lockdown They opened the fire Ooh Them bullets was flyin' Lockdown we ain't gotta stop because they tell us to Who said it was a lockdown Goddamn lie And downtown where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound got it in my name now I'ma shoot it Uh okay Never understand why they do it Someone cut the channel off the news 'fore I lose it Nah I ain't even trippin' if you wit' it then we lootin' Nah Help me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki Ooh o he Had to break it down so smoothly Smooth They gon' say It's not about race but we movin' Fuckin' ho power Copped the tre pound had to put that in my name Wish a nigga play now Yeah Any given day I'll be headed to the pulpits Yeah Say a lil' prayer matter fact I need two of 'em ooh Won't he do it Won't he do it Ooh this ain't '92 so we into new rules Niggas got hip so we don't loot the projects 'Bout to hit Rodeo with my lil' cousin Marcus Someone threw a whole brick in the Neiman Marcus Ah Help me put the whole mannequin in the Charger You should've been downtown Down The people are risin' Look around We thought it was a lockdown Lockdown They opened the fire Had to get low fire Them bullets was flyin' Down down Who said it was a lockdown Goddamn lie Ooh wee Lockdown we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound Uh got it in my name now I'ma shoot it Lockdown we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown