Is It A Crime? Lyrics

Yeah man

I just gotta get

I just gotta get

I just gotta get

I mean I just gotta get some shit off my man

Is that a crime?

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

Everyday we losing blacks like it's genocide

That's all the hate inside, we hate ourselves and live a lie

It's hard to watch our people cry when we can't provide

And when we struggle to survive then we choose to hide

But we goin make it out the gutter when we lose the pride

All are blessings soon to come we just paying tithes

R Kelly touched the world with when a man lies

But was he out committing crimes at the same time

Or was they trying to sabotage him for his fame ties

They just wanted him locked up like Akon

They want us dead in the hood like we Trayvon

He was a young Prince that could've balled like Tayshaun

I wonder if that would've happened in the daytime

But was it really a crime for him to be outside?

And is it really a crime because I'm asking why?

Do so many of my people really have to die?

How Zimmerman goin watch the neighborhood when he sending shots

How he goin watch his own back when they spend the block

And chill, I ain't speaking on death I'm talking bout the cops

It's hard when you locked in a basement but tryna reach the top

I need to empty my space my mind a vacant lot

This food for thought and the soul it's like Jamaican spots

I'm just tryna get fresh I need to call Mike

The studio on Jefferson now I'm cruising to van dyke

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

Mike these haters ain't fly like they like a banned flight

But is it really a crime to stand with black and white

All stripes, no barcodes I demand rights

We from the streets if we hungry we eating spam and rice

When I was homeless in Thailand in 2018

The locals wanna be white, they think they ain't clean

Is it nature or nurture or is that straight genes

She turned down the weed pipe now she a dope fiend

Sometimes we all hit rock bottom when chasing hope dreams

But is it really a crime for me to smoke weed?

Is it truly a crime for us to PROceed?

How many black folks then made it to the major league?

We got like 59 players in the MLB

At least we got the NBA so we should be ok

Ok, but is it really crime to treat us like a slave "what you mean"

I mean they still locking niggas up like everyday

I mean they still shooting niggas if they run away

And the crime was that he ran in the first place

Major league flow I'm running for the first base

After that I'm tryna gun for a homerun

Oh it's a crime that you heard the words gun and run

I'll soon be number one and I'm my mothers only son

I came to make the crowd jump my people bout to plunge

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

Is it really a crime for me to speak my mind

Well the truth will set you free unless you testified

They exterminating rats like its pesticide

So keep your mouth closed, win or lose,

Pick a side

You already know man

I got two sons of my own in this world

I want to make sure they grow up right

I might of missed some time but I'm here now!