Way In Way Out

One man's trash is another man's treasure
 But most men treasure what other men have
 Little is thrown away to the many that will never
 Grasp what the few view as pennies in the grass
 And underneath the grass are the roots of inequality
 Creating all the bumps we come across in the path
 And I don't have a green thumb and neither do my niggas
 And having a money tree is a luxury of class
 The only ho I know had a flattering ass
 And when I asked could she dig it, she looked at me and laughed
 See we crabs in a barrel and the barrel was glass
 So we broke, crack was the answer to cash
 But the question was never asked: how we get off the path?
 Steady walking in a maze that was built in the last
 Century,
 eventually we'll raise our hands
 But the teacher is a part of the scam, God damn
 Got me looking for a way out, way out, way out
 Running down a fire escape to get away
 Got me looking for a way in, way in, way in
 Got me peeping through your doors and your windows
 I'm a product of the environment that I was brought up in
 Material things I'm caught up in
 Hustling, a product that creates the production
 A plus then, for shackles that resemble circumference
 My world, my word, I'm running from my block
 Right into your wall, street
 That when I see up close is just a prop
 Designed to keep me cropped
 Outside of the picture that pictures my people in defeat
 I'm cooking up the books like a communist bonfire
 And tell Uncle Sam I forgot the receipt
 He gon' call me a liar and I'mma call him a thief
 The jury looking like him and enjoying looking at me
 At my arraignment, screaming
 All us blacks got is sports and entertainment, and a belief in
 Religion as the answer to the grieving
 Believing that the blessed get test and the less get even
 Running away from trouble got me running into you
 Running away from darkness got me running into view
 Running towards all the lights
 Running from blue and whites
 Running for you by day hope I run into you by night
 Running for an election to run the country for who
 Run and tell all the news that you run it for something true
 Run it into the ground, run it into a tomb
 Run until there is nothing, run it until we lose