Protest against the war on drugs, conscious hip hop style
Music and Lyrics by Frank Singer aka chelaBOP
Track is from One World Tribe's Armed and Dangerous CD
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The war on drugs is a war on people
The war on drugs is a terrorist war
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4-20 [aka LIBERATION DAY] -chelaBOP ©2002
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA WANTS TO HELP THE CHILDREN
THEN TELL ME WHO THE HELL ARE ALL THE PRISONS FOR?
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT LIFE
THE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE BULLETS FOR?
You know I like to get high, but if I can’t I won’t die
I won’t even cry, though I might give a sigh
‘Cause I’m not addicted, my mind’s not evicted
And I’m not conflicted, as the DEA predicted
No! chela out-speaking, fresh minds I’ll be tweaking
While the lie-machine is leaking and the whole country’s freaking
If truth you be seeking, come and follow my beacon
Smell the DEA reeking and your knees begin to weaken
‘Cause the whole damn drug war is manufactured
For profit, fear and attention captured
Take weed for example, it’s really the hemp
Standard Oil, Hearst and Dupont had condemned
Banker Mellon, with nephew Anslinger in tow
Gave the means of production to corporate control
They knew hemp could free us from all this dependence
From oil, synthetics, to wood, we could end [THIS]
WAR ON DRUGS, THIS WAR ON PEOPLE
THIS WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT CHILDREN
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THE KILLING FOR?
Mad, mad Texans in the Capitol area
(Use) excessive force in the midst of hysteria
Tony Martinez, nineteen and unarmed
Shot dead while sleeping, not doing no harm
West coast – Modesto, California gusto
SWAT kills eleven-year-old Alberto
Sepulveda. Stray bullet? Accidental?
Some funky new breed of kind and gentle
A thousand points of fright from royals
Who lie, steal and kill in the name of oil
Keep the whole world addicted to their brand of fuel
While governments wink and pretend to duel
Now we got ourselves a little war on terror
But once again the government’s in moral error
Tried to say headz helped bomb the World Trade Towers
Just a bald-faced lie from a gang of cowards
JUST A WAR ON DRUGS, JUST A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS AN UNJUST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT JUSTICE
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE PRISONS FOR?
Last year seven hundred thousand headz joined the corps
Now looking at life through a prison cell door
Serve the longest of sentences, and more than half
Of all federal cons serve for drugs, what a laugh!
I can kill, go to prison, get back out, get a loan
Go to college, but not if I’m caught getting stoned
Oh, unless I’m the kid of some rich politician
It’s all money and power that give you permission
But the real villain here is the drug prohibition
Whose advocates ought to be jailed for sedition
A mark-up of seventeen thousand percent
Spreads the profits around, lets corruption ferment
All the jobs and the prisons, the DEA budget,
The cost of the drug war’s so big, now they fudge it.
Use trickster accounting, like congress or Enron
En-suring the Bill of Rights one day is long gone
A CASUALTY OF A WAR ON PEOPLE
A CASUALTY OF A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT PEOPLE
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE BULLETS FOR?
Now it’s down to 4-20 and we must find a way
To bring about the dawn of LIBERATION DAY
That’s a day most sunny, and I know it sounds funny
But I hope the day will come when we don’t need 4-20
But we got to get it done while we have our fun
Headz, we got to get together and unite as one
Daryll Gates and Carlton Turner said to kill us with a gun
A police chief and a drug czar, it’s enough to make you run
‘Cause we know there’s others like them, still in power, still in hate
Using arguments not based in fact, like ganja is a gate
But if they didn’t want weed to be a gateway drug
They would change the laws that put it in the hands of thugs
But it’s not about caring, it’s about the milk and honey
Not the honey that Al Qaeda sells, the unmarked tens and twenties
Are you down with 4-20? Then follow that money
‘Cause the only way to change it is to tell somebody [THAT]
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA DOESN’T CARE ABOUT MONEY
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE SEIZURES FOR?
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA WANTS TO HELP PEOPLE
THEN TELL ME WHO THE HELL ARE ALL THE PRISONS FOR?
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT CHILDREN
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE BULLETS FOR?
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON PEOPLE
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A TERRORIST WAR
IF THE DEA REALLY CARES ABOUT CHILDREN
THEN TELL ME WHAT THE HELL ARE ALL THE BULLETS FOR?
- chelaBOP ©2002
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