Can't you see we livin' in a war zone This *** don't know that when you livin' in it Like every weekend it's a man down Ain't got no pity for the innocent So I'm a representative, dedicated teller Can't breathe, can't breathe Can't you see we livin' in a war zone And everybody's swayin' I.M.P., mutt Had a Klan rally day before, but they ain't mean that What they say is suicide, I say it's genocide And what you got a gun for, boy, you ain't finna ride They run up on you like Baton Rouge, bet you finna hide There's a difference between us, I'd die to save a million lives Appointed leader when nobody couldn't think of *** I'd be a martyr if my great-granddaughter didn't fit And before you over ask you where your license at Be careful reachin' for it, you know you can die for that And this ain't nothin' new, just got cameras so you can see this *** Got Dr. King and A. Lincoln askin' where the freedom at This ain't no equality Man, you ain't had no justice on your mind when you tried to me But *** it, this the way it gotta be Hey, listen, you won't shoot at them, then shoot at me Boy, you are not a G Imagine Trayvon askin' why you follow me Feel threatened, hit him and whip him down when he shot him down Do that to a grown ***in' man, drop you where you stand Tell my grandma gone with all that prayin' If it's a God, me in the sky, he lookin' down, he understand I'm just a man, and I'm on for revenge But I don't get it, me like tellin' him, ain't gon' kill again Keep ***in' around, it gon' be on in a minute While we livin' in the war zone This *** don't know that when you livin' in it Like every weekend, it's a man down Ain't got no pity for the innocent So I'ma represent a dedication Tell her, hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't you see we live in the war zone? It goes to them white wives, they ran in the old church I hope to get slow mercy, and they taught you to slow first Ran in that place of worship and slaughtered our grandma Won't go to kamikazes for that, well, what's your dad for? Hold up, I'll wait Heard it from Buddy who took the fall for Watergate The war on drugs, or just the war on us? Give us all these guns, give us all these doors Change all them laws, lock all us up Went from freeway Ricky, on the BML And then Hillhock came, that's when we got Rick A white kid gravitated to it like all of these And that's when they got slick Invented the technology to take our *** That looted all of the artistry Pardon me, somebody tell me what happened to Alta Sterling killed Philando right in front of the girl And the world saw, everybody read as you would hear No, they martyred their slavery to prison Privately traded in the G's The Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation, just a ***ing piece of paper You see, we live in the war zone Bitch, you don't know that when you're living in it Like every weekend, it's a man down Ain't got no pity for the innocent So I'ma represent a dedicated teller Hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't breathe Hand up, can't you see we live in the war zone? *