Count Em Up - Masta Ace/Marco Polo.mp3

[00:00.000]How many brothers do I know on Rikers Island?
[00:02.719]One, two, three, four, five (Yeah)
[00:09.957]Count 'em up son
[00:15.452]Count 'em up son
[00:16.458]One, two, three, I'm losing count
[00:21.956]One, two, three, four, five, count 'em up son
[00:27.900]Yo, they just did a raid in my neighborhood
[00:30.907]Guess they running out of field labor
[00:33.160]Shaney from 6A, Mikey from 6B
[00:35.907]Cells right next to each other so they still neighbors
[00:38.913]If you're selling loosies or you're smoking weed
[00:41.157]They send you off to college, they got everything you need
[00:44.155]Three square meals and a place to bathe
[00:46.908]Numbers on the rise, an entire race of slaves
[00:49.656]Cops like recruiters trying to increase enrollment
[00:52.405]Forget about that wife that you should be getting old with (Forget it)
[00:55.154]Forget about them kids that you should be here to raise (Nah)
[00:57.670]Legal aid told you that you could be here for days (Damn)
[01:00.654]Didn't want to tell you that you're probably here for years
[01:03.403]Look at all the numbers, you're surrounded by your peers
[01:06.155]Dudes from your neighbourhood, some you went to school with
[01:08.913]Cats you had beef with, other you was cool with (Cool with)
[01:11.410]There's so many of us, I mean plenty of us
[01:14.406]Cops rolled up, bag like twenty of us
[01:17.409]**** laws and the probable caus
[01:19.662]Search and seizure leave you out of your drawers, yeah (Wow)
[01:23.338]Spread your cheeks, bend over, cough (Say what?)
[01:25.996]Another false arrest with no remorse (Come on)
[01:28.454]And tomorrow it's the same shit again
[01:30.962]Hard to keep track of all the brothers going in
[01:33.402]Count 'em
[01:33.902]One, two, three, four, five
[01:38.147]Count 'em up son
[01:39.343]One, two, three, four, five
[01:43.843]Count 'em up son
[01:44.786]Bodies on the rise and going up some
[01:47.298]Cries for all the lives getting stuck son
[01:50.040]Count 'em
[01:50.537]One, two, three, four, five
[01:54.785]Count them up son
[01:56.487]They always posted up in my neighborhood (Yeah)
[01:59.649]Searching all through my neighbors' goods (C'mon)
[02:01.899]**** with that little boy, I'ma catch a bi
[02:04.163]Now get your ****ing hands off him copper, that's a ki
[02:06.650]It was one hot summer day chillin' on the ave
[02:09.405]The pig came through, ice grillin' on the ave
[02:12.158]He got a death wish, but you know what that's about
[02:14.915]Cause you're three, four, five, they gon' lay his ass out, now
[02:18.157]Back to the street shit (Yeah), goons is goons and (Yeah)
[02:20.652]Fools is fools and (Yeah) rules is rules but (What?)
[02:23.649]There's principles even if you a sinner
[02:25.902]That's the reason most of my people in the pen are ten up
[02:28.904]'Cause one day you're up, next day you're down
[02:31.651]Covered with a sheet, coppers hit him with a round (Round)
[02:34.401]That's why I got a license to ill
[02:36.162]And like two, three, four files nigga I'm licensed to kil
[02:39.661]This is everyday life in the 'ville
[02:41.873]Get money, get drunk, get high, throw dice in the 'ville
[02:45.112]You ain't go'n kill a homie off and talk about me in the interview
[02:48.371]"Yo, that's a female cop", Miss Piggy can get it too
[02:51.126]One shot's for a crooked cop, raw deal
[02:53.619]One more for Commissioner O'Neal (Blam!)
[02:56.361]Stop locking us up, stop doing us wrong
[02:59.114]We like two, three, four five million strong (Yeah)
[03:02.128]One, two, three, four, five
[03:06.379]Count 'em up son
[03:07.367]One, two, three, four, five
[03:12.113]Count 'em up son
[03:13.116]Bodies on the rise and going up some
[03:15.619]Cries for all the lives getting stuck son
[03:18.119]Count 'em
[03:18.860]One, two, three, four, five
[03:23.114]Count them up son
[03:24.072]One, two, three, four, five
[03:28.518]I'm losing count
[03:30.522]No matter what the sum, it's too big of an amount
[03:35.021]One, two, three, four, five (One, two, three)
[03:39.457]I'm losing count
[03:40.649]One, two, three, four, five
[03:43.399]No matter what the sum, it's too big of an amount (Yeah)