[Intro]
Yeah
Court in session
All rise
People vs. the fake vibe
[Verse 1]
I’m in the lab writin’ rights, not raps for the brand name
You worship letters, I’m letter-of-the-law in the damn game
You spell his initials like scripture, I’m flippin’ the page
Check the preamble, I’m pre-armed, I’m free from the cage
You want bars? I brought articles, clauses that carve tyrants
You brought costumes and trauma, I brought conscious compliance
You sold stories of slingin’ and singin’ about a dead block
I cite section and sentence, you cite charts and dreadlocks
Your West side tales sound tired, just gun talk and gang signs
We had folks die for amendments, you just died for a co-sign
I’m tryna give kids due process, you teach ‘em due time
They quote my lines in a civics class, yours in a true crime
[Chorus]
This that people’s rap, not your evil act
Every beat I snap, that’s the equal act
Read the first, read the fifth, we don’t plead to that
I put the power in the people, you just bleed the pack
This that people’s rap, this the sequel track
Every bar’s a bill of rights, how I keep ‘em strapped
You just profit off the pain, then you leave ‘em trapped
I put the power in the people, you can keep your cap (yeah)
[Verse 2]
You claim culture, I claim custody, I’m guardin’ the flame
You commodified the struggle, then you called it a chain
You got rich off every wound that you refused to repair
I got youth up in the room learnin’ who put ‘em there
Tell ‘em “speech is free, thought is free, you are not the product”
Tell ‘em “power’s in petition when you start your project”
You rap “kill ‘em, get a mil,” I rap “build and appeal”
You glamorize the cage, I bring a realer deal
You played judge, jury, op, just to sell ‘em a show
I break ‘em down like a statute, how corruption’ll grow
You did numbers off addiction, off the grief and the smoke
I do numbers off conviction when the sleepers awoke (wake up)
[Chorus]
This that people’s rap, not your evil act
Every beat I snap, that’s the equal act
Read the first, read the fifth, we don’t plead to that
I put the power in the people, you just bleed the pack
This that people’s rap, this the sequel track
Every bar’s a bill of rights, how I keep ‘em strapped
You just profit off the pain, then you leave ‘em trapped
I put the power in the people, you can keep your cap (yeah)
[Bridge]
From the block to the ballot, from the courthouse steps
We the ones on the docket, we the ones that’s next
If the pen’s for the people, then the page is a shield
Every verse like a verdict, let the case get sealed (facts)