we are prey for the devil for the devil ive been hunted way before my momma made me when police was tryna chase me in caprices it was jesus it was lausd esus it was juvie its an uzi a fully automatic piece of weaponry im shooting military grade barricade military aid try to tell the people there aint war while yelling bombs away contradictions like the contras getting reagan checks the irony of locking up a youth for slinging sacks of crack imagine that reality is yours you black and poor someone with a plane put a kilo at your mommas door aint no child support the state ignored you like a foster kid the homies though get a little dough making dollars did fifty fifty shifty with the eyes when i mash twenty twentys nothing when the police gun you in the back its non violent versus violent and you wonder why we dyin then you settle with some money just to keep the family quiet nah me ill tell you straight up police put me down i want fires in l a to reach all the way to the town i dont care if we was enemies in 1992 if you poor and you brown homie ill ride for you too you see the devil never get it he put death in your breath powerless powerless ayy yo the devil never get it he keep death in your breath powerless listen powerless ive been wanted by police from just a youngin brown man white judges plead out hand cuff em ive got issues with abuses we gon lay it all out they have set us up to get is in a cdc gown so who you think trippin now they pushin pushin us out oh yeah i meant to say it twice its twice as bad for us now they say one in five men who have color in their skin gon be arrested plead out and get some time in the pen the pendulum swinging yall singing for a grammy award im trying to stay out on tour to push the pendulum toward us now more of a stick up kid type so i could spot a mark a mile away with sniper ish sights and i can tell if you hype most of these rappers alright and most of the time you pull the curtain back the master is white who thinks its cute to hear were shooting slinging video drugs hear the one in five statistic and could not give a fuck  you see the devil never get it he keep death in your breath powerless powerless i know that devil aint gon get it he keep death in your breath powerless powerless listen he told me thirty five to life is what he looking at took a trip to barry j where they box our children at i wanted to build they facing a dope time then he let me listen to him rhyme a simple mission with a rifle and a tank full of gas took a child from off the streets said hed be here till his last see the devil never get it he keeps death in our breath powerless we powerless ayy yo the devil take the power they abuse the power pipelining babies in the prisons by the hour for the money power our youngest soldiers we finna lose while the devil never get it he is all over the news powerless we powerless we powerless yeah pow powerless we powerless yeah its powerless yeah we powerless ayy yo the devil never get it the devil never get it yo the devil ain t gon get it the devil never get yo the devil tryna get it the devil tryna get it the devil tryna get it the devil tryna get it powerless x4 down to their last breath powerless x3 i know that devil ain t gon get it he keep death in your breath powerless x2 i know that devil ain t gon get it he keep death in your breath powerless x2 brrraaaaa