Dave East - Don't Shoot lyrics

[Verse 1] I asked my cousin why they pulled him over He gave me a look as if he didn't know I had my basketball and my now and laters Ain't get along with my neighbors, I was a rough kid Hearing sirens through my window Them blue and red lights kept me up at night I couldn't get enough of life I seen this kid get arrested in the park He was screaming he ain't do it They ain't even let him talk I ain't understand I'm like 10 blowing in the wind Tryna find a park to go play, I don't know the drama I ask my mama what do police do? She told me stay up out they way Go to school and get good grades One day I'm walking in my building and they stopped me Told me I looked just like this kid that did a robbery And I ain't never stole nothing in my life Maybe candy out the store or a bag of chips [Verse 2] Imagine this, years go by, I got a little older My best friends in group homes, I got a little colder I'm tryna make the varsity team, chill with Stacy and Shop at the mall, only Ralph Lauren they'll lace me in I had the Moncler, remember begging moms for it Walking home from school, I almost got robbed for it I took off, I can't go home without my jacket on Blue and whites hara**ing me but I don't know what happened to 'em Left and right I'm seeing homies get interrogated We ain't safe where we live, this America ain't it? High School they teaching me this the land of the free But everything got a price, they don't answer to me They don't answer to us, we getting tattoos They think we criminals cause we believe that cash rules Attitude a little different when you from the gutter I seen a cop talk crazy to my mother My father familiar, he told me all about 'em Told me never go around and avoid 'em, that's if you can Black intelligent man they worst nightmare They'd rather have you in prison forever, they don't fight fair Starting to think about college, I got some scholarships I just graduated, two cops pulled me over Tried to show my diploma, they ain't acknowledge it Three young black males riding in the jeep Bout to go to college, they thinking we in the street They hate got a little bit deeper, I'm getting frustrated [Verse 3] A bunch of slick comments, I'm still a n***a Even if you got millions, they still'll get ya I played ball, I was the man on campus Little weed up in my dorm, I got ran off campus Then I got locked up, minor bid, it was short Staring at my mother crying up in court Came home, I started rapping, had to trap first Phone ringing all night, was tryna take a nap first Gang squad hopping out, narcotics watching We had the weed and the pills then we got it rocking Cameras in the projects helped us move smarter n***as turned butch building into the new carter Pooch did a bid and came home the same n***a Bully did a bid and came home the same n***a My moms working all night, I had late dinners Went broke tryna cope a coat, that made me hate winter Focused up, got a deal, now this sh** is real Every time I leave the club, they hope I got the steel We just got some weed, we just tryna chill We just tryna eat, we just tryna build They follow every car I try to ride in I'm just praying this ain't the car that I die in I guess with this hoodie on I'm a murderer I'm just tryna buy my mother some new furniture This attitude is programmed Imagine getting hara**ed for you whole life All day and the whole night They say prison is the new slave ship They don't understand we hustling so we can pay rent Soon as they come around it feel like your luck gone They gotta show you they power, that's why they put the cuffs on Ain't no more weed in the car sir, the blunt gone I got my hands ups, officer what's the problem? Please don't shoot me sir, I just had a daughter Look here go a *blaow*