"They Got..." lyrics

Know your enemy, overstand y'all
Overstand y'all, know your enemy
Know your enemy, overstand y'all
Overstand y'all, know your enemy

They got extraterrestrials living in Arizona
They got fools selling gats out of bodegas in Corona
They got media Tell-Lie-Vision locked down too
Brotherhood of Snakes symbolism, logo on Channel 2
They got millions of dollars invested in crack
Not to mention cigarettes and alcohol
On top of which they tax
They got professors teaching only half the story
1975, they created AIDS inside a laboratory
They got me feeling like I'm on parole
They got excuses for the people that they killed
And the land they stole
They got us thinking we're players, but they're the pimps
They got my dick inside they mouth and they all full of shit!

They got computer chips filled with secret manuscripts
They got Olympic Games, symbolic for how we're trained
They got my fifteen sisters and brothers, different mothers
In Brooklyn and Puerto Rico on a search for one another
They got me thinking porn from like dusk till dawn
They got my crew spelled out Non Phix-ion
They got mobile phones that we purchase on a rental
So they tap it to our lives and cause tumors on our temples
They got Merchant Marines cooking coke in submarines
They got us feeling dope is a way to self-esteem
They got fucked-up leaders acting like disciplinaries
But what they ain't got is us hip-hop revolutionaries

Know your enemy, overstand y'all
Overstand y'all, know your enemy
Know your enemy, overstand y'all
Overstand y'all, know your enemy