(GP Jacob):
You see more clearly when you look at life through multiple perspectives
Don’t believe what you see on the screen they misdirect us
We should hand out life sentences to multiple detectives
But it ain’t just ‘bout the pigs; it’s ‘bout who gives the pigs directions
Sower of confusion, wager of the war
They build all the prisons, with intent they make decisions
Invent racial divisions that they layer on the poor
And if you help ‘em kill the Black man they pay a little more
Racial bribery, the tv camera lied to me
The preacher to my people reachin’ tryin’ to hit the lottery
An immigrant is not a leach nor reason for my poverty
Divide and conquer logic, the secret of their psychology
In your brain is where a tyrant reign
Not just one type; we need all kinda change
‘Cause the revolution can’t save you anyway
Lines in the water, gotta build power many ways

one bad cop is a problem
but one bad cop is not the problem
one bad department’s a problem
but one bad department is not the problem
one bad politician is a problem
but one bad politician is not the problem
.and when we don’t see the whole picture
we treat the symptoms and keep gettin’ sicker

(Guante):
it’s July 4, 2015
and right away the song’s dated but timelessness is overrated
I believe in calculated impatience
readin’ my newsfeed like they’re loose leaf pages, yo
so when the interviewer asks me
why do you write so much about race? I’ll say
today? how could I write about anything else?
when art is a reflection of self
and I’m alive at a time when so many are sentenced to cells
and so many others are just gone
and so many who look like me are statistically unlikely
to go out in public and see anyone who doesn’t
and city cops still live in the suburbs
and every time a new controversy is unearthed
we focus on the who what how and when
every detail, blind to the wider trend because...


one bad cop is a problem
but one bad cop is not the problem
one bad department’s a problem
but one bad department is not the problem
one bad politician is a problem
but one bad politician is not the problem
and on the flipside we need a movement
because one good person is not a solution

(Tish Jones):
Is this a call to action or dissatisfaction we feel
Both: impact, analysis, what’s happenin’ is ill
Still feelin’ like a fraction ‘cause I’m Black and in the field
In the belly of the beast, and it don’t skip meals
To be real: they still eatin’ off the back of we
Imprison us in factories, it’s funny how the past repeats
Or how they mask it with this black ink
Sentence after sentence in the pen, shit is mad deep
Six feet, every 28, that’s a true stat
Lookin’ at the boys in blue like where yo noose at
Judge and the jury like where the fuck the truth at
And bodies of my people on the ground like too bad
Hopin’ this song is a bullet I’m trying to shoot back
Empty out the chamber change the balance give the youth gas
Let a pseudo-ally know to take a step or two back
And call the problem white supremacy because we know that

one bad cop is a problem
but one bad cop is not the problem
one bad department’s a problem
but one bad department is not the problem
one bad politician is a problem
but one bad politician is not the problem
so many names that will never be forgotten
cameraphone’s up stay watchin’ the watchmen, yo