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featuring Tae 

[Talib Kweli talking] 
The other day I was walking passing when you was on the way to 
meet my pops  you know  and this white boy stops me  talking 
'bout  he be in the National Socialist something or other  
trying to sell me a paper and  give me some  uh  Free Mumia 
pamphlets. So you know I'm in a hurry  right  and i told him  
right  and he tried to check me  like 'Have you ever even heard 
of the Black Panthers, and Mumia was fighting so you could go to 
college, and...' All this, and I'm like, "dude, you don't even know 
me, man. I don't even fucking go here, man. I know who the 
fuck Mumia is, man. Innocent niggas get locked up every day, man. 
That ain't nothing new..." 
But, yo, on the other hand, you tell some brothers Mumia's on 
death row, and they think he's making records with Suge Knight. 
I don't know, man, I guess it just really where you at, you know 
what I'm sayin'...Bust it. 

[Talib Kweli] 
Niggas on the street running like slaves 
Trying to eat, yo, we averages 
Twenty one years from the graves, back to baby carriages 
The same hypocrites screaming pro-life and marriages 
Be using religion to justify our savageness 
'How bad is this?' 
You and the creator need a mediator 
Your priest is human 
Your relationship with God is greater 
The men who think they hard 
Steady issuing death penalties 
The people got no right to life cause they all slaves mentally 
You turned'Thou Shall Not Kill' into a sham of a commandment 
Your interpretation I cram to understand it 
Like light 
So if America is majority white 
The the prison's another country like James Baldwin 
Blacks and latinos all in the system 
Like it's a calling to fall in the trap 
That's why our blocks are infested with drugs and gats 
In fact, cats on their throat cause the way they think is illegal 
One thing you can't forget when you're dealing with people 

[Chorus 4x] 
The Human Element 
(scratched) 
"Done somethings bad, done somethings good" 

[Tae] 
I done walked on these streets 24 revolutions 
Gon' start for play me more just from raw evolution 
Fucking up your system like P&D pollution 
Staten niggas free be in (?) institutions 
It's the term of the century 
Ohio got twenty seven penitentiaries 
44,000 for each entity 
See a nigga on the street, snatch him instantly 
Here come the infantry, they shoot to kill intentionally 
word is you could be disturbed mentally 
Police balk, but that's business officially 
What you thought, they supposed to show sympathy 
We born enemies, they sworn to get ridda me 
Protect to serve, you gotta be kidding me 
Eventually, my conscious state made 'em contemplate 
The price of freedom is your life man you compensate 
Now think that all the way through, and let me commentate 
And every common state be seem to dominate 
And man accomodate laws they abominate 
Through bars to combinate 
And guards to confrontate 
Souls are irrevelant 
In cells like melanin 
Judge without intelligence 

Chorus 4x 

[Talib Kweli] 
My nigga starving in prison for bartering with ism 
You tell me which is civilization and which is barbarism 
He fell into the traps he knew was put here by the system 
Some people got the knowledge, but they never apply the wisdom 
If you ain't got it, then replicate it 
Or join the growing ranks of the ill-fated 
Slated to be publicly humiliated 
If you ain't the problem, then the solution you have to be 
We'll start a hoodlum intelligence agency like tragedy 
We majesty, stay focused with thought and meditation 
Deviling this Babylon with strength and dedication 
Like that, and we don't stop 
My A of life gon' remain on top 
It's the Reflection, and we got the sureshot 
And we only drop that pure hip-hop 
This goes out to freedom fighters, graffiti writers 
Innocent lifers, grassroots organizers 
This goes out to single mothers 
Soul bad brothers 
Young lovers of the revolution that solutions 
This goes out to cats raising babies 
The the ones who react, say, when the world get crazy 
Blaze one for the MOVE organization 
Ramona Africa, and those that know truth is liberation 

Chorus 2x 

Hi-Tek put it on 'em 
Free Mumia

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