… It’s that capitalistic system
Reshad Karboau, 15, is the author of the rap song presented below. He is a member of the San Francisco chapter of Youth for Socialist Action (YSA).
It’s that capitalistic system that never came in contact with reality
So overpowering and towering
Did that to everything
Even the people that labor for it to exist
Cause ain’t nothing would be shit
Unless the masses of people woke up every morning to put in
Eight hours of work every five days of seven
Two days of relaxation are givin
And I don’t know about You
But I sure the hell am trippin
I’m so tired of getting dicked from every position
I be put in
Thats how it be
For every young poor person like me
So try to understand
I want to live in a land
With true equality for all
But that idea just seems to fall
In the system we be in
So try to understand
I want to live in a land
With thirty for forty not forty for thirty
So for the last time try to understand
I want to live in a land where people revolutionize
Cause they realize
That the times are bad but the ways are even worse
I want to hurt
A government, state, or city official
Always serving us with rhymes puzzles and unsolvable enigmas
They try to keep my eyes blind
With my head not able to decide
But it does
And I shine my own light to guide my own way
through these sideway days
Maintaining the focus on which I know this
Whole nation’s a plantation
With the creation of a million waged slaves
They try to maintain that hunger and fear
To stir you all up in the right direction
Because they know you aint able to think right when you be stressin
There aint no one in this nation behind the creation
Of more moves with more domination
Then that mother fucking sucka bill clinton you see
So I dont think you understand
You aint capable with one, with you aint capable with two, you aint capable three to four gats, Uzis, or bazookas in your hand
Of blowing up other countries and making indentation in foreign lands
Like I said aint no one more gangsta gangsta then Mr. Bill Clinton
Or any of them congressmen cause they all gee’s
Droping bombs on Kosovo and overseas on the Iraqian too
Using bombs filled with depleted uranium
and bought to use em on you
Cause really they dont give a fuck
Get in there way there quick drop bombs strap out and buck
Unload a truck full of troops
They trained by running through hoops at the school of the americas
Cause really they’re not caring about who the true enemy be
Concentrated on how to be making and maintaining the cash flow
If you havent been told
The U.S. is in debt
And the bombs that they sent to Kosovo
To kick off the next world war
Probably been paid by credit
At the expensive of all your dollars and cents
But into social security
Paid by people like you and me
Provided by the powers that be
You ask me what I mean by that
I mean it wouldn’t be like that if the powers that be got their caps pulled back
You know im down for all that
But a we got to hit ’em strong got to get’em all
Or else they’ll have us behind bars
With four walls a ceilin and a flow[a floor]
Cause a I know the prisons they build’em to fill’em
With the people retaliating there hating
Thats why they really makem
And a I also know
They ruin that true way of life commercialized that way of greed
Indeed I see it every day at school
One teacher took me to be another mother fuckin´ fool
He used some words basically to say to me
That I won’t ever be shit
Unless I stack a large amount of gripp
So on his face I felt I should place some spitBut didn’t
Came to my senses realized it was all a part of this capitalistic system.
