What's the opposite of dribbling a basketball?
I don't know if you know much about lacrosse, but they be doing this.
I know this, man.
I went to prep school.
Me and the homies would come through like this.
So I imagined some dude doing that and then 5-0 came and knocked him out.
I've had a lot of trouble relaying the story and the plight of black and brown people.
In this case, I imagined a time where I'm talking to a white coworker or friend.
in our neighborhoods, stop and frisk, until de Blasio really hooked us up and made New
York a safer place, despite what Giuliani thinks, stop and frisk here and in other cities
been something that is terrifying our neighborhoods and our kids and me and everybody I know.
You'll see this a lot in the hood, right now, where people that are not historically from
there will come in, and it's not just white people.
It's whoever is gentrifying the neighborhood.
I remember being in Flatbush and there was a Mexican dude.
His face was swollen.
He had just got knocked the hell out.
There was glass everywhere.
He was cut.
He was bleeding, man.
And then literally, two white women walked by.
They're like 40 years old.
35 to 40.
And they had yoga mats and baby strollers.
And they just walked by talking about just life, you know?
Just walked by.
Over…
I don't even think they knew there was pieces of glass under the baby stroller.
I couldn't believe it.
That line is for those women and for anybody who comes in and just walks around like nothing's
wrong.
Or is not aware of the freedoms that they have.
Like, a black woman at 3am going to the corner store with her baby, she can't even think
of that.
Even me.
We never roll dolo.
We roll at least two deep to the corner store at 3am.But, I've seen it in East Flatbush.
A woman just walking, strolling with her baby at 3am alone.
Why can she do that?
Because she has an invisible military around her.
You don't see it.
But as soon as you touch something, all of a sudden that military comes and swamps you up.
The second verse deals with some of the reasons why you have the crooked cops; because I don't
believe every police officer is crooked.
But you have them dealing with quotas.
And a lot of times, by the end of the month these officers are forced to make a certain
amount of arrests.
This continues with the theme of flipping everything around.
I go into why the officers are targeting these white girls.
And then just them picking them up in a paddywagon.
Sweeping the street "clean."
Why do you think we are the way we are?
What would you do in our scenario?
When your child...
You know your child doesn't have a gun.
But, that grown man over there claims that they did to save his ass.
White people would be outraged! Are you kidding me? White people would be furious!
I'm still telling a story to this man, whose wife name is Madeline.
So now, I'm really into it. "They found ya out, they surround your house."
He's in it.
I've gripped him.
He's like, "Oh my God.
White girls are getting arrested on the subway.
Whoa."
So, that feeling of horror or terror, that fear.
When there is a raid, when they do bust down the door, a lot of times, you're unaware of it.
It's important to show that when you're in this kind of scenario it changes you.
It makes you more ruthless.
And makes your language even harsher, you know what I'm saying?
And that's why we use the word nigga and bitch, because when you're in those scenarios, especially
if you're in an area that was a hood, that was redlined, partially because of Roosevelt
and other presidents, it was created for you to fail.
I think it's important to say bitches just as I say nigga in the song.
So I made sure that it was equality in the record.