Well, I'm doing this from that place where the young bodies stack to bluest of blue skies

A child grown quick kicking it with an ice pick, age of 8 babyface straight-up scared to die

Seen 1 little, 2 little, 3 little homicides

Kids don't rank so they shank in front of baby eyes

Bullet-scarred! Prison-barred!

The one times got my face to the ground - they want me down

Downset at the bottom! On the come up to say some!

DOWN

Downset at the bottom! Coming up from the slum!

Downset at the bottom! On the come up to say some!

DOWN! DOWN! DOWN! DOWN!

Bronze complexion!

Converse and khakis enough for the fuss of a C.R.A.S.H. to straight jack me

BROTHA BROTHA BROTHA how you make 'em get down? Systematic static can't stifle the set's sound

Jack for the mic and I'll still get it going on

Making my statement with a fatcap and Krylon

Peeping my voice from the L.A. underground, the plan from the man is to demand they keep me down!

Downset at the bottom! On the come up to say some!

DOWN

Downset at the bottom! Coming up from the slum!

Downset at the bottom! On the come up to say some!

DOWN! DOWN! DOWN! DOWN!

They got me down

Got ya! Got ya! Yeah you know I straight got you!

Reveal to heal in our sectarian obstacles

Wipe the dirt off the eyes of the hate child

Damn with the program imposed since the juvenile

Shit is so thick that you don't want to deal with it

Set's got heart to consist like an activist

Ain't going to live in comfort while shit gets worde

I got the voice of the voiceless and life comes first

So what are you going to do? What are you going to do?

What you gonna do when the shit comes down on you?

The set's gonna be down, yeah you know, like we've always

Been, the ghetto survivors got no soldier extinction

The man ain't down with multiethnic ethics;

Division is wicked and DOWNSET ain't with it

My word is my fire for life and love is the sound

You got to kill me to silence me, fool

You can't keep me down

Downset at the bottom! Imma coming to say some!

DOWN

Downset at the bottom! Freedom in a cage!

DOWN

Downset at the bottom! Imma coming to say some!

DOWN! DOWN! DOWN! DOWN!