Lockdown (Acapella)

You should've been downtown (Yeah) The people are risin' (Yeah) We thought it was a lockdown (What?) They opened the fire (Damn) Them bullets was flyin' (Ooh) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie Oh my Time heals all, but you out of time now (Now) Judge gotta watch us from the clock tower (True) Lil' tear gas cleared the whole place out I'll be back with the hazmat for the next round We was tryna protest, then the fires broke out Look out for the secret agents, they be planted in the crowd Said, "It's civil unrest," but you sleep so sound Like you don't hear the screams when we catchin' beatdowns? Stayin' quiet when they killin' niggas, but you speak loud When we riot, got opinions comin' from a place of privilege Sicker than the COVID how they did him on the ground Speakin' of the COVID, is it still goin' around? And won't you tell me 'bout the lootin'? What's that really all about? 'Cause they throw away black lives like paper towels Plus unemployment rate, what, forty million now? Killed a man in broad day, might never see a trial We just wanna break chains like slaves in the South Started in the North End but we in the downtown Riot cops tried to block, now we got a showdown (Citizens of Los Angeles) Down (I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly) (And in the name of the people of the State of California) You should've been downtown (Command all those assembled) The people are risin' (Right here) We thought it was a lockdown They opened the fire (Ooh) Them bullets was flyin' (Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop because they tell us to) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie And downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound, got it in my name now, I'ma shoot it Turn on your tube dawg, look how they do us Knee on our necks, bullets in backs Stimulus checks strictly for blacks History repeatin', people scared to eat a chicken Everybody goin' vegan, what they put in it? Look at the world we livin' in, they got it shook And then you go on your jog Then your color might get you took And yet the man in the mirror Can't look away, you gotta look at it Black Lives Matter So what it means when they shoot at it? Generation, genocide What happened to enterprise? Heard the man infiltrated Black Panther, re-energize Ain't nothin' to figure out, they tryna kill us out If I take a kneel, see my fist? I'm a killer now Just think, bullshit, you gotta filter out Are you really ready for the smoke Like a Swisher house? Ready for the revolution, who ready to ride? It won't be televised So tell me, who ready to die? If downtown goin' up Where we at with the shits? We at the liquor store, nigga 'Bout to get us a fifth Know they 'bout to start lootin' Grab the gloves and masks Watch out for them tanks When they rollin' past, yeah Uh, okay Never understand why they do it Someone cut the channel off the news 'fore I lose it (Nah) I ain't even trippin', if you wit' it, then we lootin' (Nah) Help me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki (Ooh), o-he Had to break it down so smoothly (Smooth) They gon' say, "It's not about race," but we movin' (Fuckin') ho, power Copped the tre pound, had to put that in my name Wish a nigga play now (Yeah) Any given day, I'll be headed to the pulpits (Yeah) Say a lil' prayer, matter fact, I need two of 'em, ooh Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Ooh, this ain't '92 so we into new rules Niggas got hip, so we don't loot the projects 'Bout to hit Rodeo with my lil' cousin Marcus Someone threw a whole brick in the Neiman Marcus (Ah) Help me put the whole mannequin in the Charger You should've been downtown (Down) The people are risin' (Look around) We thought it was a lockdown (Lockdown) They opened the fire (Had to get low, fire) Them bullets was flyin' (Down, down) Who said it was a lockdown? Goddamn lie (Ooh-wee) Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown, where I got popped with the rubber bullet Tre pound (Uh), got it in my name now, I'ma shoot it Lockdown, we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to Downtown