How To Hold A Choppa - Black Thought, Salaam Remi

Dark room with the cloak draped over the mic

Colloquium light, the smoke from the opium pipe

Silk road is a code so the only advice

To bring truth to the light, play this only at night

If it’s over your life, it’s not only a fight

My homie called it a plight and my homie was right

How to speak truth to power is refuse to cower and teach youth

The hour of reckonin' is upon us, there’s enemies among us

Essentially in more than recent memory, they hung us

Public assembly to watch death become us

Better believe it but if not, check the numbers

Gramps told my father they sold his papa for gold and copper

Even though he was the strongest cropper

Now am I wrong if I teach my son to properly hold a choppa

And how to bring down a helicopter?

What’s the concept?

The industrial prison complex

For niggas in the projects with they eyes shut

That still walk around blind to the conquest

That haven’t really realized what’s the time yet

No due process, the price is no object

When sentences match the crime, they do not yet

It’s been a war on the heavily melanated

For your own security, you better be educated, listen

And if you can’t see what’s happenin', you just can’t see