Straight to the Penn - Reconcile

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Straight to the Penn (mass incarceration yeah yeah)

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Started, 5 years old

They plotting just to ship up the road

They know where we from

What we don’t know

Know that, if they chop us down, then we won’t grow

They know about the drugs, they’re pushing it in

They highjacked the culture

They’re doing us in

They highjack the culture

They serving us the bids

They really want the future

They’re coming for kids

Yeah

Yeah

You’ll rise if you’re educated (Ugh)

Keep 'em uneducated (Ugh)

Keep 'em incarcerated

Keep 'em divided/faded

Give em a plea for they cases (Ugh)

Pin 'em on all the cases

Make it hard, like crack in the 80s

Yeah, yeah

Youngin', it’s us that you’re shooting

Brother, it’s us that you’re serving

Family, it’s us that you’re hurting

Whip us real good, so we won’t rise

Strip all the motivation!

Strip all the motivation!

Give us more interest and payments!

Ugh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Knowledge is wealth

Make 'em hate they self (Ugh)

They got stocks in the rap game and the prison

They found a way to monetize poor folks (Ugh)

Perfecting our poverty (Yeah)

Perfecting dishonesty

Perfect your theology

Martin came and they shot at him

They’re lockin', they’re locking us up more

The system is flaw, it’s cut-throat

Young and we’re wilding no act right

Running with wolves, the pack life (Yeah)

Make dreams to get the bag right

Make moves to get the bag right

Running mayne

Running mayne

Running mayne

Running mayne

Running mayne

Running mayne

Run it

We get our food from the government

Soaking up game from the gang

Boys ain’t beefing the same

Boys been changing the game up

My momma ain’t graduate high school

Poor and we fight, too

We’re black, and we’re poor and divided

Jiggas is drowning and tired (yeah)

Jiggas ain’t living right

So they’re giving up they rights

I seen it a thousand times

Boys giving up on life (Yaaah)

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Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary?

Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary?

Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary one day?

Who woulda thought in elementary they would see the penitentiary?

(Yeah, yeah)

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Strive, until they put us in the graveyard

Fear no evil, they my people brave, yeah

They say we woke

We’re on some other tip

Hate I’m they heart

They’re on some other tip

Hell with money like: «Where your head, young?»

Bang in these streets, gone leave you dead young

Couldn’t be more dead if you was dead young

I’m tryna give you living water

You’re stuck on bread crumbs (Jesus!)

You get 'em hot, he gone resort to violence

All the devil gotta do is get someone to try ya (Try yourself)

Young black and we ain’t got no father (Where your father)

Live reckless, den we repeat the cycle

You need way more than a job

Gotta start with a dream

How you’re hungry, but ain’t hungry?

How you’re struggling, but quitting?

(You quitting)

Can’t write blood on no application (Nah)

30 years old, ain’t got no occupation

I can be crippled by the system, or I can make a difference (Make a difference)

They’re writing new laws… and we ain’t represented

I need more color from the judge to the state senate

You’re fighting for your life, don’t be the one to end it