Bambú - Powerless lyrics

[Intro] We are prey for the devil For the devil [Verse 1: Bambu] I've been hunted way before my momma made me When police was tryna chase me in Caprices It was Jesus It was LAUSD's 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 the youth for slinging Sacks of crack Imagine that reality is yours: you black And poor Someone played a prank, 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 the violent versus the violent And you wonder why we dyin' Then you settle with some money just to keep your 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 1992 If you poor and you brown, homie, I'll ride for You too [Hook] You see the devil never get it, he put d**h in your breath Powerless, powerless Ayy yo the devil never get it he keep d**h in your breath Powerless, listen, powerless [Verse 2: Bambu] 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 d** Hear the “one-in-five” statistic and could not give a f** [Hook] You see the devil never get it, he keep d**h in your breath Powerless, powerless I know that devil ain't gon' get it he keep d**h in your breath Powerless, powerless [Verse 3: Bambu] 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[?], 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 d**h in our breath Powerless, we powerless [Bridge] Ayy yo the devil take the power They abuse the power Pipelining babies in the prisons by the hour For the money/ power [?]soldiers, we finna lose While the devil never get it, he is all over the news [Outro] 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 d**h in your breath Powerless (powerless) x2 I know that devil ain't gon' get it he keep d**h in your breath Powerless (powerless) x2 Brrraaaaa