[Hook: Russell Curry]

We got a problem, Houston

Tell the cops drop the weapons and stop the shootin'

Yeah, we got a problem, Houston

Tell the cops drop the weapons and stop the shootin'

[Verse 1: Russell Curry]

What you know about a third world problem in a first world nation?

Stomach's straight blazin'

Home invasion, pigs chasin' waitin' patient

Perfect occasion, either serving strange fruit or turned into bacon

Of course we're products of the choices we're makin'

Also of the situations that we're raised in

We're wakin' from American Dreams

Over one fifth of poor people are younger than 18

Twice as many Black babies die before 1

Experts debate, but the truth is gonna come

Yo, people of color under a third of the nation

But make more than half of the prison population

1 in 3 chance that I'll join at some point

And 4 times as likely for a cop to hold at gunpoint

Build a new prison when the kids fail a test

Companies turn caged bodies into profits

More locked up today than 1920-80 combined

Reagan came, incarceration climbed 5 times

From when the bible was under his hand

His policies made imprisonment supply and demand

The war on drugs is a war on thugs

Catch you in the uniform you're catching time or catching slugs

(what's it consist of?)

Dark skin, do-rags and Jordan shoes

Pants sagging, and no can't forget the tattoos

The image of drug consumers and dealers on the news

Is 14% of sellers, 21 of the ones who use

[Hook: Russell Curry]

Yo, that's why I said we got a problem, Houston

Tell the cops drop the weapons and stop the shootin'

Yeah, we got a problem, Houston

When Russell's on the mic then we let the truth in