Powerless - Bambu

We are prey for the devil

For the devil

I’ve been hunted way before my momma made me

When police was tryna chase me in Caprices

It was Jesus

It was LAUSD-esus

It was juvie

It’s an Uzi

A fully automatic piece of weaponry

I’m shooting (brraa)

Military grade, barricade

Military aid

Try to tell the people there ain’t war while yelling

«bomb's away!»

Contradictions like the Contras getting

Reagan checks

The irony of locking up a youth for slinging

Sacks of crack

Imagine that reality is yours: you black

And poor

Someone with a plane put a kilo at your

Momma’s door

Ain’t no child support, the state ignored you

Like a foster kid

The homies though?

Get a little dough

Making dollars did

Fifty-fifty shifty with the eyes when I

Mash

Twenty-twenty's nothing when the police gun you in

The back

It’s non-violent versus violent and you wonder why we

Dyin'

Then you settle with some money just to keep the family quiet?

Nah, me I’ll tell you straight up, police put me

Down

I want fires in L.A. to reach all the way to the

Town

I don’t care if we was enemies in

If you poor and you brown, homie, I’ll ride for

You too

You see the devil never get it, he put death in your breath

Powerless, powerless

Ayy yo the devil never get it he keep death in your breath

Powerless, listen, powerless

I’ve been wanted by police from just a youngin'

Brown man, white judges, plead out, hand cuff ‘em

I’ve got issues with abuses we gon' lay it

All out

They have set us up to get is in a CDC

Gown

So who you think trippin' now?

They pushin' pushin' us out

Oh yeah, I meant to say it twice

It’s twice as bad for us now

They say one-in-five men who have color in their skin

Gon' be arrested, plead out, and get some time in the pen

The pendulum swinging, ya’ll singing for a grammy

Award

I’m trying to stay out on tour, to push the pendulum toward

Us

Now, more of a stick-up kid type

So I could spot a mark a mile away with sniper-ish sights

And I can tell if you hype

Most of these rappers alright

And most of the time you pull the curtain back the master is white

Who thinks it’s cute to hear we’re shooting, slinging video drugs

Hear the «one-in-five» statistic and could not give a

Fuck

You see the devil never get it, he keep death in your breath

Powerless, powerless

I know that devil ain’t gon' get it he keep death in your breath

Powerless, powerless

Listen, he told me thirty-five to life is what he looking at

Took a trip to

Where they box our children at

I wanted to build, they facing a dope-time

Then he let me listen to him rhyme

A simple mission with a rifle and a tank full of gas

Took a child from off the streets said he’d be here till his last

See, the devil never get it he keeps death in our breath

Powerless, we powerless

Ayy yo the devil take the power

They abuse the power

Pipelining babies in the prisons by the hour

For the money/ power

Our youngest soldiers, we finna lose

While the devil never get it, he is all over the news

Powerless, we powerless

We powerless

Yeah, pow-powerless

We powerless

Yeah, it’s powerless

Yeah, we powerless

Ayy yo the devil never get it

The devil never get it

Yo the devil ain’t gon' get it

The devil never get

Yo the devil tryna get it

The devil tryna get it

The devil tryna get it

The devil tryna get it

Powerless (powerless) x4

Down to their last breath (powerless)

Powerless (powerless) x3

I know that devil ain’t gon' get it he keep death in your breath

Powerless (powerless) x2

I know that devil ain’t gon' get it he keep death in your breath

Powerless (powerless) x2

Brrraaaaa