[Verse 1]

My people are starving it's war on the streets

Forced to rob and kill out of necessity

Freedom or death, they still got us mental chained

Low education, poverty stricken making minimum wage

What's it gonna take for us to open up our eyes

So many of our babies getting caught in drive byes

They profit off our style music and clothes

Then portray my people as crooks and hoes

Our leaders are dying out no one to carry the torch

Erasing our history so the people will never know

America the land of the snakes and racist laws

Forcing their religions on us and their white Gods

Homeless people right outside the White House

They eating lobster dinners while we living in the projects

That don't make you mad remember Katrina

How many lives could they have saved if they would have acted a little sooner

[Hook]

America the land of the free when most of my people are living in poverty

The American Dream is like a nightmare to me

I've lost too many lives and the streets

[Verse 2]

They want me to believe in the American Dream

When drugs and poverty are all that I've seen

Steady sending food and supplies overseas

But what about our babies and our communities

Mommy working two jobs to make ends meet

Dad locked up so many kids out on the streets

They got money for jails but nothing for our schools

They know without an education we loose

But my people don't care rolling blunts getting high

They sit and complain doing nothing with their lives

Babies making babies strung out on drugs

Steady crying out for attention and love

But we ignore them and lock them in cages

And wonder why there filled up with so much hatred

I feel sorry for the next generation the youth

They lack on education it ain't cool to be a fool

[Hook]

America the land of the free when most of my people are living in poverty

The American Dream is like a nightmare to me

I've lost too many lives and the streets

[Verse 3]

Political demons claiming that they for us

How can they lead us when they don't understand our struggle

They don't know our pain or what it's like to be black

Born into poverty living from check to check

That's why I don't vote no more ‘cause I don’t see the point

When I try to speak my mind they try to silence my voice

Martin Malcolm so many lost their lives

The cost you pay when you stand for what's right

Huey Garvey they'll always live on

Their blood runs in my veins I'll die for the cause

We gotta pave the path for our babies to walk

So God willing their lives won't have to be so hard

My sister my niece my nephew they my heart

I'll give my life for them to make a better start

That's what you supposed to do for your babies

But a lot of my people are very stagnant or lazy

[Hook]

America the land of the free when most of my people are living in poverty

The American Dream is like a nightmare to me

I've lost too many lives and the streets