500 FBI agents comin' after us   With a license to kill, 30 mill   Claimin' is just a drug buzz      Reach uppity reach, gotta reach   Power to the people and the beats      Some people accuse some people of crimes   Some people get away wit' losin' my rhyme   They don't like where I'm comin' from so dey play dumb   Dumb, diggety dumb, diggety dumb      But I'm tellin' you what they do   Everybody plays a fool   While the real thief cools in a pool      He who got the finger on the war button   Talkin' loud ain't sayin' nuttin'   TV got 'em bigger than life   Now all he needs is a knife   Who the criminal?      Blind, def and dumb, hard to see 'em comin'   But they come, here they come, don't be dumb, diggety dumb   Politikin' writin' bad checks, still dey gettin' wreck   Goin' fo' a nigga neck      Rollin' in a blue 'n' white gang   Ready to bang, biggedy bang   Hangin' 'round da hangin' rope   Nope, nope, nope, N O P E   I ain't bendin' for the soap      Never understood why the 'hood   Half of who's in da joint   Now dey got me losin' my point   Gotta have it goin' on, born criminal born      Take a piece of America back   But who had it first? Hear the Indian curse   Robbed and stole so many so much   It ain't funny, now who got 'em face on money      Politician passin' a bill paid in full   C note rockin' in a pocket   How they livin' makin' sure they   Lockin' us up I got a feelin' I'm      When it come to somethin' we say   What dey don't like is a brother like me   On da mike in fact   To the gritty ain't none of us wack   Noriega head back      Jeffrey Dahmer enter the room without cuffs   How the hell do we set stuffed   In da back of a cell on an isle, ain't it wild?   What's a criminal?      Power to the people and the beats      Only if I had one more   Time to kick the rhythm that keep rippin' down the door   So the real criminals get exposed behind the clothes   Doors 'n' the suits that make 'n' break da law      Lookin' for my own 'cause I had enough bull   I can't understand it must be crooked way they planned it   Police supposed to keep the peace   But I can't truss 'em, so I keep my piece      Loaded and cocked   'Cause I don't miss the block   Talkin' about the ones   Who don't get chained to the rock      Once we got away [Incomprehensible]   While we go away for the neighborhood crime   Never liked what I saw in the law   Indiana tress hangin' us instead of leaves      We hangin' from the rope   Real criminals      Reach uppity reach, gotta reach   Power to the people and the beats   Reach uppity reach, gotta reach   Power to the people and the beats      Reach uppity reach, gotta reach   Power to the people and the beats   Reach uppity reach, gotta reach   Power to the people and the beats      Power to the people and the beats   Power to the people and the beats