"Nights Over Brooklyn" lyrics

It's like nights over Brooklyn

When crack was sold
A lot of people lost their lives and lost their souls
You could see a new TV bein' sold
The epidemic had the neighborhood in the chokehold (Chokehold)
Both young and old, had 'em in the dope fiend lean
Both hustler and fiend caught up in the same game
The condition of our people, battered and torn
Then Allah came with the first nine born (First nine born)
Knowledge then spread from Mecca to the desert
Pylon to medinas to the Fertile Crescent
The gods is buildin', the Earth's a shepherd
And how you see the taste map in a hundred twenty lessons?

La memoria te gana
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah, yeah, look (It's like nights over Brooklyn)

From the hood where the seven-fifth stop and frisk (Stop and frisk)
D's ride with the tints black, fully packed
With the mind frame that everybody's criminal (Criminal)
So they stop, look, and wait for you to flinch a little (Flinch a little)
Then use this for probable cause and throw us on walls
A lot of young men live with these conditions
Chokehold, knee your neck, another lynchin' (Another lynchin')
Desensitized, disconnection from the people
They'll protest oppression without aggression (Without aggression)
Still beaten with batons, arrested, and disrespected
Is it the uniform that you put on when you were sworn
That causes you to transform to perform harm to an unarmed mob?
That should set off all kind of alarms
It's morally wrong, your handcuff breakin' his arm
Marvin Gaye and Rakim both asked
What's goin' on?

La memoria te gana
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah