Runaway Slave Lyrics - Runaway Slave - Showbiz & A.g.

Runaway... runaway slave (8X) 

Verse One: A.G. 

Livin in the slums with the bums, the rats and the stray cats 

Dogs with the rabies, little babies are having babies 

Juveniles act wild 

Every footstep you take, on every corner there's a crack vial 

Pushers, dealers, crackheads are buying 

Now the dealer's in jail, all the crackheads are dying 

My man got AIDS, he was hit hard 

To get laid, he paid a crackhead for a five dollar quick job 

In the ghettoes this stuff you have to find 

A beer will relax my mind but I still pack my nine 

Cause I'm aware of all evil and devilishment 

Because I'm living in a rat like settlement 

Sometimes it's hard to manage 

I grab a forty take a sip and let the mental do the damage 

Yeah I'm woozy and my eyes are red 

But it's better than a uzi and a brotherman is dead 

See nine out of ten are black on black crimes 

Four out of nine were killed before their prime 

The other five wanted vengeance 

So now five out of five are doin a jail sentence 

Ask the Giant I've been through it 

So when I reach to the top, I say the ghetto made me do it 

And I know how to strive, huh 

Born and raised in the ghetto so you know I can survive 

Chorus:Runaway... runaway slave (8X in background) 

I gotta getaway, I gotta do it now 

or find a better way, so how that sound (both lines repeat 4X) 

Verse Two: A.G. 

Chapter two, of every black man's diary 

Drugs and diseases, put in our society 

Kill another brother and it's bravery 

Come on that's one step backwards into mental slavery 

Yeah you best believe that's reality 

You got black on black then there's police brutality 

Yeah it's bad but what makes it sad 

Is that I'm being harassed by a black man with a badge 

He's sellin out because he's two-faced 

But you only got one race, you only got a nigga's face 

He's sellin out because times is hard 

And old ladies are gettin robbed cause I can't find a job 

Fight to the top, and the other man'll drop 

and gettin treated like savages will stop 

You got the right plan, but goin about it the wrong way 

Divided is the long way united is the strong way 

Too many died for us to take a pause 

So let's all get ours, and stop tryin to get yours 

Walk a straight path, but it's so easy to stumble 

So weak minds crumble in the concrete jungle 

Get your chance to sell drugs, you don't pass up 

But a fast buck will wind up to be your last buck 

It's a damn shame, you're deaf dumb and blind 

Did it ever cross your mind, you're killin off your own kind 

And pretty soon even you will be a goner 

Easy access to guns, liquor stores on every corner 

Street knowledge is a must, you never learn enough 

You're physically rough, but mentally you gotta be tough 

We shall overcome with no doubt 

The runaway slave is sayin peace and I'm out 

Chorus 

I gotta getaway, I gotta do it now 

or find a better way, so how that sound (2X) 

"Let's runaway, let's escape" (7X)