Deep ft. Nas

The problem's getting' worse, a modern 1970, Johannesburg

Man, it hurts to see a cop kill a black man alert

News flash, police shoot blacks, distort facts

Quick attack, unarmed men, murder them

It's captured on cellphone video and they still let 'em go

When will they stop killin' 'em? Askin' why is they killin' for?

White man with a gun apprehended, he still alive

Black man with a gun, he has no chance to survive

They gon' shoot him dead soon as they see the brown of his eyes

And they ask me, "Why you ain't smilin' Nas?"

'Cause I have a son and I die inside when I gotta tell him what was told to me

Can't play with your water gun son 'cause the police see