“…reports on a new kind of cocaine called ‘crack.’
It’s going nationwide, especially among the young. A drug so pure and so strong it might just as well be called ‘crack of doom’…”
“…in the nation’s biggest cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago…”
[Verse 1: Truth]
At the end of Jim Crow
Who would have thought that the outcome...
They took out Martin King and Malcolm
Left was the Hueys, the Fred Hampton, Jr
They found him
Shots to the head, no guns was around him
Astounding
They felt the nation was browning
Currents that could make an impact, so they ground them
Counter Intel
Had the Intel
Had the men jailed
We was hanging on by a pin nail
Broken
Black boy searching for income
Then come crack cocaine. Man, it’s been one
The Contras and CIA, they sent some
Dissolved in sodium bi
That’s where the scent from
Murder
And the gang banging the byproduct
Killing niggas by the thousands, so why stop it?
President Reagan
Played his best role being Satan
The whole administration
Facilitating crack in the eighties
Crack
[Hook: Truth]
Crack in the eighties
Crack in the eighties
A, yo, crack
And a nigga with a Mac acting crazy
Leave the stash with his lady
Now it’s crack in the babies
Crack in the eighties
Crack in the eighties...
Nigga with a Mac acting crazy
“…in the nation’s biggest cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago…”
[Verse 2: A.D. Carson]
In this New Jim Crow
My bro got a mandatory minimum—
And it wasn’t for him selling Ritalin
New slaves—same thing as the old slaves
Better check the 13th Amendment
Same benefits, different percentages, same business
Big house where the niggas live
They still locking niggas down without a share
So black boys move white like Obama care
He just tell ‘em pull they pants up and don’t loot
In the street they yelling “Hands up. Don’t shoot.”
But we still getting shot on the spot. You ain’t safe if a
Cop is a modern-day slave catcher
He just there to oversee the plantation
To help facilitate the damn nation’s
Plan, which seems to be the man made into
Labor for slave wages, or sell base like
Crack in the eighties
[Hook]
Crack in the eighties
Crack in the eighties
A, yo, crack
And a nigga with a Mac acting crazy
Leave the stash with his lady
Now it’s crack in the babies
Crack in the eighties
Crack in the eighties...
Nigga with a Mac acting crazy
“…in the nation’s biggest cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Chicago…”
“…crimes with not-so-happy endings are criminals who need money to buy drugs or who are on drugs
In the alphabet of illegal drugs, few have become so popular, so potent, so addictive, so fast
As what’s known on the street as crack
Since CBS New reporter Harry Smith first investigated this the Crack Problem has become the Crack Crisis…”