Trapped in the, trapped in the box

Yo, uh, uh, trapped in the box, four walls, no door

Just a key and lock, ****, uh, uh, uh

And I can't get away, I was set up to be stuck

See the tape on my socks, ****? Uh, uh, uh

And I hopped out the womb like a mummy in a tomb

No room for me to move in this uh, uh, uh

In this land of the free or this Hell on Earth

See, the devil in the street

In the form of a man or a rock in the pot

Twelve years old, I was runnin' from the cops

No hopscotch here, just a hand on the Glock

Tickin' and tockin', time runnin' out

Bad lil' ****, Ferris Bueller in the class

Skipped work to get work in the school of hard knocks

Black book bag, two straps in the sack

I ain't talkin' 'bout the straps on my back

'Cause I always knew

I was trapped in the box, four walls, no door

Just a key and lock, ****, uh, uh, uh

And I can't get away, I was set up to be stuck

See the tape on my socks, ****? Uh, uh, uh

And I hopped out the womb like a mummy in a tomb

No room for me to move in this uh, uh, uh

In this land of the free or this white mans world

It's the same damn thing

Same old song that the fat lady sing, uh, uh

Need a new tune, uh, need a new groove

Uh, dancin' on these graves, I'ma need some new shoes

Uh, dancin' with the dead, gotta teach 'em new moves

Learn from the best, uh, learned from the TEK's

I ain't talkin' 'bout no fouls gettin' called by the refs

Talkin' 'bout the nines, yeah, the nines in the vests

That they sellin' to us cheap so the cops can arrest us

Lock us all there and then throw away the key

Give us twenty five to life for a quarter pound of breeze

Take away our visitation and our right to make calls

Nothin' but a memory, a scribble on a wall

Nothin' but a memory, we livin' in the past

While the present ain't the present 'cause the future never last, uh

History repeatin', I know you see it with your eyes

Only difference now we just chillin' and gettin' high

'Cause we trapped in the box, four walls, no door

Just a key and lock, ****, uh, uh, uh

And we can't get away, we was set up to be stuck

See the tape on our socks, ****? Uh, uh, uh

And we hopped out the womb from the mummies in the tomb

Used to rule everything but uh, uh, uh

Now we all tryna just get by, oh, yeah