[00:01.78]Flipsyde - Act Like a Cop Did It
[00:13.76]And every time another kid shot down, face down, laid out, bleedin' out on the school grounds;
[00:17.94]And every time a little girl get sent, by a grown man pimp, selling everything waist down;
[00:23.18]And every time another wife gets snatched, car-jacked, get slapped, straight raped in the worst way;
[00:27.49]And every time a little boy's paralyzed with a bullet in the spine cause a thug had a bad day;
[00:32.04]We should act like a cop did it.
[00:33.85]Go crazy, mosh-pit it. Just roll, just rock with it. Life is life and death is death so baby why should it matter if I did it?
[00:41.34]I'ma ride to the finish.
[00:42.34]All the grown men and women been tryin' to make the killin' stop. We need justice, and it don't matter the color,
[00:48.39]a trigger happy thug or a trigger happy cop. But let's act like a cop did it.
[00:52.70]YOU GET YOURS, YEAH, AND I'LL GET MINE.
[00:54.75]NO ONE HERE'S GONNA GET OUTTA LINE.
[00:57.75]WE ARE LIVING IN TROUBLED TIMES.
[01:05.43]WE'RE COMIN' UP, YEAH WE'RE GONNA SURVIVE.
[01:09.61]I have a reverence for life, I hate it when we lose it in the night.
[01:12.73]Ass whipped shootin' cause you losin' in a fight. 15, cruisin' in a buick feelin' right.
[01:16.72]Drunk and high 'til you lose it and you lose your whole life. And then we light a candle and we put you on a shirt.
[01:22.27]And then we bow our heads and we cry cause it hurts.
[01:24.33]And the preacher man tells us God had a plan so you had to go to heaven, only God understands.
[01:28.58]A lot of real people that was raised in the hood and they rep for the hood and they sweat for the hood.
[01:33.51]Wage war on killers messin' the hood and they protest the system stressin' the hood.
[01:37.62]Feelin' like I might be next in the hood face down with a bullet in my back on the track.
[01:42.93]Just make sure if I get clapped in the back it don't matter if the murderer is BLUE or he's BLACK.
[01:46.86]YOU GET YOURS, YEAH, AND I'LL GET MINE.
[01:49.36]NO ONE HERE'S GONNA GET OUTTA LINE.
[01:56.84]WE ARE LIVING IN TROUBLED TIMES.
[02:01.90]WE'RE COMIN' UP, YEAH WE'RE GONNA SURVIVE.
[02:06.52]Just lift every voice and scream. For the women and the children that live in pain.
[02:56.27]And the 18 and ups that vote for change and look down and see they're still shackled up in chains.
[03:00.71]I'ma start with home. Label it a no wrong zone get some other grown folks we can guard our own.
[03:05.88]Draw a line in the concrete, set the tone. Come up in here wrong and we snappin' bones.
[03:10.56]Little kids can't even walk across the street, without you ridin' by doin' 93.
[03:15.49]And you kickin' in the doors of these families, stealin' everything they worked for and leave with ease.
[03:20.48]It don't matter if you cops or you thugs or you dope fiend pimps on the block. LISTEN! God don't discriminate.
[03:24.92]He gone bring the sword anyway but I'ma act like a cop did it.
[03:29.22]YOU GET YOURS, YEAH, AND I'LL GET MINE.
[03:34.46]NO ONE HERE'S GONNA GET OUTTA LINE.
[03:39.14]WE ARE LIVING IN TROUBLED TIMES.
[03:43.82]WE'RE COMIN' UP, YEAH WE'RE GONNA SURVIVE.