Who’s Really In Control? by Jasiri X

Mayor Bloomberg responds to Kedrick Lamar’s Control verse

Lyrics

I’m a billionaire with a private army that leaves you really scared 
One father had heart attack when we aimed at his silly head 
I don’t think you understand he’s literally dead 
Now I’m hearing these dumb rappers say my city is there’s? 
Don’t make me call Commissioner Kelly 
Cause Black and Brown get stopped and frisked on a daily 
Handcuffs on they wrists and 45ths to they scullys 
Shot in the back like Kimani or in they own bathroom like Ramarley 
And I know Jay Z don’t like Harry Belafonte 
But he like my little brother he looks at me very fondly 
He’ll never get in the club but we let him carry the laundry 
So you ignorant Black folks think he’s Illuminati 
RIP Ed Koch I’m more ruthless than Giuliani 
Getting rid of all the poor all they do is reduce the property 
while I’m here all week with my boys on wall street 
Penthouse all suites we don’t care where yall sleep 
Ask occupy get on my bad side them shot will fly 
Riot gear choppers high cockin when my coppers ride 
Armored tanks, tear gas, tasers, night sticks 
Flame throwers light shit mace in the face of white chicks 
Build a statute of my likeness and put it in front of Rikers 
For the Black men I mass incarcerated and indicted 
The schools I turned private the hoods we gentrifying 
Bye bye Bed Stuy Big up in heaven crying 
I’ll though up some ice for the nicest MC 
But you can tell Kendrick Lamar the King of New York is me 
Bloomberg I got my own channel and news firm 
They said I couldn’t run again so I bought me a new term 
You’ll learn tell that judge and the federal government 
That the constitution don’t apply to the 1% 
We still stop and frisking from dawn until the lights out 
In fact I saw a black man lurking round the White House 
2016 that’s right Hillary I’ll show you what a billie means I can spend anything 
New york Yankees I’ll just buy the wining team Dr. Evil really schemes I just need a mini me 
These rappers must be kidding me listen I got drones 
That will Christoper Dorner you burnt to a crisp in ya home 
They all under surveillance from no name to famous 
Asked the Hip-Hop police they said you all gave statements

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“Do We Need to Start a Riot?” – Jasiri X

Free Download: http://jasirix.bandcamp.com/track/do-we-need-to-start-a-riot
“Do We Need to Start a Riot?” is a response to the recent report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement that states 110 Black people have been killed by the police in 2012, one every 40 hours

http://mxgm.org/report-on-the-extrajudicial-killings-of-110-black-people/

Filmed on location in New York City at the historic march to end Stop and Frisk, and in Los Angeles on Florence and Normandie, where the 1992 LA rebellion began, “Do We Need to Start a Riot?” features words from legendary Activist/Comedian Dick Gregory and Henry Watson, one of the “LA Four”, charged in the beating of Reginald Denny and highlighted in the recent VH1 documentary “Uprising: Hip-Hop and the LA Riots, and appearances by the Universal Zulu Nation, Occupy the Hood, the Sound Strike, the League, and Hip-Hop Artist Tahir Jahi.

“Do We Need to Start a Riot?” was directed by Paradise Gray and Radee Westfield.

[LYRICS]

Ramarly Graham, they shot him
Alan Blueford, they shot him
Ken Chamberlain, they shot him
Kendric McDade, they shot him

Darius Simmons, they shot him
Bo Morrison, they shot him
Wendell Allen, they shot him
Justin Sipp, they shot him

Scared rappers be quiet
Scared preachers be quiet
Scared leaders be quiet
You’re in the presence of warriors

Scared rappers be quiet
Scared preachers be quiet
Scared leaders be quiet
You’re in a warrior’s face boy
You can’t call this a race war
Cause we the only ones they got hate for
That get shot down when the gage roar
But we always willing to take more
From Emmett Till on that lake floor
To Trayvon, Rekia Boyd
Mumia, Troy it’s we destroyed
Since I’m public enemy I bring the noise

Marissa Alexander, they locked her
Jasmine Thar, they shot her
They keep trying to kill us
But they never get indicted
Our people crying loud
But them scared rappers stay quit
And if we don’t get justice do we need to start a riot?

In 92 those riots grew
Peace treaty
red unites with blue
In LA the Crips and the Prius
Put aside the feud and started riding true
said the NOI was behind it to
Then Police came in to divide the crews
Steal a homies car them drive it through
Another gangs hood then fire the tool
Our unity is our biggest weapon
When I asks this question you feeling threatened
But imagined your child being killed for less and
It’s 45 days for the killer arrested
mad at me cause I’m given a message
But if we can be killed by Zimmermans
And they can get off cause of privilege
Then our we really citizens
Get beaten to death if you a immigrant
Go back to your country is the sentiment
They call us monkeys say we ignorant
So we get killed they don’t give a shit
Now what would you do if you were living this?
To protect your kids from this?
If ya child got killed would you live with it?
Would you slit you wrists would you get the fifth
Would you care about ya job our ya benefits?
If they said they murderer was innocent
No trial no jury no sentencing
And you saw how foul this system is
but they keep telling us to be patient
They keep tell us to keep waiting
They keep telling us that we hating
And when we’re killed cause we black that we racist

Howard Morgan they shot em
Then for 40 years they locked him
They keep trying to kill us
But they never get indicted
Our people crying loud
But them scared rappers stay quit
And if we don’t get justice do we need to start a riot?

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