Downset

Well, Im doing this from that place where the young bodies

Stck to bluest of blue skies. a child grown quick kicking it

With an ice-pick, age of 8 babyface straight-up scared to die.

Seen 1 little, 2 little, 3 little homocides. kids dont rank

So they shank in front of baby eyes. bullet-scarred! prison-

Barred! the one times got my face to the ground - they want me

Down. downset at the bottom. on the come up to say some! down

Downset at the bottom! coming up from the slum! down! down!

Down! down! bonze complexion! converse and khakis enoughfor

The fuss of a c.r.a.s.h. to straight jack me. brotha, brotha,

Brotha, how you make em get down? systematic static cant

Stifle the sets sound. jack for the mic and Ill still get it

Going on, making my statement with a fatcap and krylon. pee-

Ping my voice from the l.a. underground, the plan from the man

Is to demand they keep me down! downset at the bottom! got ya!

Got ya! yeah you know I straight ya! reveal to heal in our

Sectarian obstacles. wipe the dirt off the eyes of the hate

Child, damn with the programm imposed since the juvenile. shit

Is so thick, you dont want to deal with it. sets got heart

To consist like an activist. aint going to live in comfort

While shit gets worde. I got the voice of the voiceless and

Life comes first. so what are you going to do? what are you

Going to do? what you gonna do when the shit comes down on

You? the sets gonna be down, yeah you know, like weve always

Been, the ghetto survivors got no soldier extinction. the man

Aint down with multiethic ethics; division is wicked and

Downset aint with it. my word is my fire for life and love is

The sound. you got to kill me to silence me, fool. you cant

Keep me down. downset at the bottom! freedom in a cage!