Tribute - Papoose

Amadou Diallo was shot nineteen times

The police fired forty-one shots combined

Mistaken identity, they had to admit it

When they went to trial, all four officers got acquitted

Ahmaud Arbery, his skin made him a target

Two racist white men shot him while he was joggin'

Betty Jones was inside of her house

The day after Christmas when shots rang out

A bullet travelled inside of her home and slaughtered her

No charges were filed against the officer

Cornelius Brown, cops chose to kill

They shot him seven times, he was mentally ill

Dominic Fuller was murdered, it gets stranger

They say he had a gun, all he had was his stapler

Eric Garner, he was a father

But now a martyr, ain’t deserve to be slaughtered

His last words, «I can’t breathe», moment of silence

The officer who killed him didn’t even get indited

Emmett Till, fourteen years old

They claim he flirted with a white woman, how cold

They took off his clothes, called him a nigga

Lynched him and threw him in the Tallahassee river

Freddie Gray had his spinal cord severed

Killed in a police van after arrested

Six officers got charged, this is ridiculous

Two years, four trials, no convictions

George Floyd, three officers kneeled on him

He told 'em he couldn’t breathe, they didn’t care for him

The country, rioting everywhere for him

Fuck those cops, I have no fear for 'em

Hector Morejon, he was unarmed

The cops shot him dead, he cried for his mom

India Kager, the navy vet

The passenger in the vehicle was a suspect

Her baby in the backseat, the cops started shootin'

The officers were cleared of criminal wrongdoing

Jamar Clark, restraint wasn’t enough

They shot him in his head while he was in handcuffs

Khiel Coppin was mentally ill, but

They say he had a gun, all he had was a hairbrush

The cops shot him, a king with the coroner

No charges were filed against the officer

Laquan Mcdonald was jaywalking

They shot him to the ground, murder without a warning

Alleged that he pulled a knife and tried to rush 'em

The video proved they lied, how disgusting

Mike Brown, the suburbs of Ferguson

Allegedly, a cop drove by, he had words wit' him

The officer shot him, he did nothing wrong

Why did he have to kill him?

The man was unarmed

Nathaniel Pickett, rest heavenly

He was brutally murdered by a sheriff deputy

Oscar Grant, the world knows his name

He was travellin' and cops grabbed him off the train

Placed him on his knees, laid him on his chest

Then shot him in his back, may he peacefully rest

Philando Castile, traffic stop

He was legally strapped, he informed the cop

The officer got nervous, a murder was committed

Charged with manslaughter but he got acquitted

Quintonio LeGrier called the cops

Three different times, before he got shot

Allegedly, they say he charged at 'em wit' a bat

But since he made the call, it’s hard to believe that

Rodney King, they beat him wit' billy clubs

They blame us but the cops are really thugs

The verdict was not guilty, how shifty

That sparked the worst riot seen since the sixties

Sandra Bland, traffic stop

The racial profiling of us has to stop

Three days later, she was hangin' in a cell

They ruled it a suicide, the truth shall prevail

Terrance Franklin was cornered in a basement

He tried to surrender, got executed by hatred

The U stands for the unknown

Who died by racism, their faces weren’t shown

Victo Larosa, they thought he had one

But after they killed him, they never found a gun

Walter Scott, the world loves you

The cop said he feared for his life in a scuffle

The video proved he lied, revealed facts

He ran for his life, eight shots in his back

Xavier Rovie, he was ridin' his bike

Point blank rage, they shot him and took his life

Yusef Hawkins was shot down

In 1989, by some racist clowns

Zamiel Crawford was chased to his death

Rammed into a wall, he took his last breath

Zimmerman, I know you think you got away with it

But everyone has karma, yours gon' be my favorite