Letters To My Country

October 14, 2014

(Not so) Late Night Music: Hasan Salaam ft. Immortal Technique & Hezekiah - Jericho

Lyrics (note: I transcribed these myself, and was unable to figure out a small piece of one of the verses. If you figure it out, let me know!)

They say that racism in America’s over
You tell that to the pigs when they pulling me over
No wire contact, just the gun out the holster
Plantation overseers, prisons filling they quota
They call us niggers, they call us thugs,
Say we all good for nothing, and we all sell drugs
They call for blood, they calling the squadron
But I am Oscar Grant, I am Trayvon Martin
**********************, they fill up in there
Invisible mad faces at the bottom of the well
We been through hell
Still seen ‘em turn to life in Henrietta Lacks’ cells
These Uncle Tom’s be corrupting the biz
And it’s word to the wire under Al Sharpton’s wig
Pigs still shoot us in the back though
Regardless of them nigger tweets from Gwyneth Paltrow
How low do we go to fit in
Killing ourselves, even bleaching our skin
Racism biz, they are right on track
And ain’t none of it changed just because the President’s Black
Fuck that

The gotta condition your brain when you get in there
To make you believe that the walls always been there
Preservere in the game without getting your flesh torn
Gotta get to a square that’s not on the chess board
Invisible walls, classism and privilege
Even taller than apartheid walls you live with
Government’s a business clouded in smoke
And when you broke, only real choice is Pepsi and Coke
Motherfuckers build a wall for every reason alive
But then change the reason when they get you inside
They built a wall to try to keep terrorists out
And it becomes symbolic of what terrorism’s about
Built a great wall for barbarian neighbors
And it’s trampled by terrorists a thousand years later
Now they built a wall to keep immigrants out
But wanna pick and choose the immigrants they talking about
Jericho’s wall came tumbling downward
They hear the car, turns rock and metal to powder
Rebellious minds, I need you to think louder
Before they police every thought they encounter
Jericho’s walls came tumbling downward
When empires fall, you see who laid the groundwork
The spark of revolution’s an outburst
I guess before Jericho, we’ll come to your house first

Refrain

Fuck how you feel about me
Say what you will about me
But let’s see how you feel
When the walls come tumbling down