"Many Black voters claim the mistrust that lingers

Coincides with a widespread belief

That people do make deliberate attempts

Either to thwart African-American attempts to vote

Or to miscount the ballots once passed"

[Akir]

I don't follow the news, they just add to my blues

Politicians and they big feets could never fill my shoes

They don't care, think we all live off welfare, it's hell here

Why should I vote like it's ever been fair?

My people in despair, they still balance, we hit hard like steel mallets

Smile intentions of the founders and they still countin

No child left behind, read between the lines

Tryin to control, they precious minds, zombies in the school line

Ridiculed, for tryin Ritalin junkies

What a powerful country, that keeps promotin off flunkies

18 years old and your brain is like lunch meat

Programmed to follow these dummies 'til the suburbs and slums meet

Pull us over soon as they see blacks in the front seat

So I'mma run streets, fuck freaks and causin dumb beats

Me and mine is gonna be fine, fuck standin in the picket line

I'm tryin to get these dollar signs dodgin time

"As it turns out, about half of the votes which are thrown out and spoiled

For technical reasons passed by African-Americans, why?

African-Americans get the crappy schools, they get the crappy hospitals

They get the bad police protection, they get the bad voting machines

The main thing is, there is no coverage on American television

And American radio about the MASSIVE disenfranchisement of, Black voters."

[Akir]

Yo, politicians that be garglin that garbage shit

Bargain with anonymous, officers of opposite

Doctrines for legal tender documents, pocketin the profits

Off the rockets while they kick us out the projects, logic

Surprisin common sense, risin occupants up out environments

Survive and then they got you doin 5 to 10

Just the other day, I was pissin out some toxins

When the cops rolled by, I gotta take it on the block again

Sendin letters included, as a child offender for indecent exposure

I shoulda looked over my shoulder

My cousin got locked, Pop's lost his job, we evicted

Waitin on Section-8, but the list had been restricted

A Lexus hit and I missed it, I was dealin with some real shit

My brother joined the service, not even nervous to get hit

Sayin that he's out kid, geeked they got Saddam ousted

I pray because he's bout it, now he's tryin to get up out it

"Are you a criminal?"

"No, never been convicted of any crime"

"But they had you down as a serious convicted criminal"

"Wrong person, I've never been arrested in my life, you know?

Got out of the military, been in the medical field ever since

I mean, you can't even work for a hospital being a convicted felon

And I was in the Persian Gulf War, so, you know

It's pretty screwed up how they did me but umm, what can I say?"

[Akir]

It makes us wanna shoot the coppers like that nigga Rollin Roberts

For the pride in which they rob us every time that they stop us

He try to give us vouchers, to move us out the hood

But when we try to use 'em, damn them shits is no good

I got a letter from my brother, said the media confuse ya

The Army-Navy game was flippin coins from Fallujah

No proper armor when they move us, damn we trapped

Cursed, Shiites is soon to surround us, in Iraq

Kerry lost, Colin Powell threw in the towel

Ashcroft assed off, the shit is even gettin more foul

Network, of elected delegates are all derelicts

Look how shiesty Kerry get, damn it's all irrelevant

It's never how they tell it is

So I gotta get my shit straight, and handle my biz

The next time we have to go vote, I might go

Plus I heard, there's a lot of jobs and a lot of fine-ass hoes, in Ohio

"If we cannot, imagine social relations based on peace and justice

And equality, we will find ourselves caught up in the rhetorical universe

That has been fabricated by global corporate dominance

And its major spokespersons in the Bush administration

So what does it mean to fight for democracy today?

Another, world, is possible!" {*echoes*}