Pharoahe Monch - What Is The Law lyrics

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[Pharoahe Monch]

Officer Frank Pagliarule, heh

Shit I hate spics and moolies

On the trains they be actin insane and unruly

It's the "Planet of the Apes"

These gorillas be blastin they tapes

out of they cars like a cinematic movie

Respondin, to a domestic dispute, the culprit

a younger monkey who went ape-shit and decided to shoot

his older brother in the brain

His baby's mother couldn't refrain

keepin sex out the family name

And that keeps me smilin like racial profilin

Forever nigga pilin inside Riker's Island

New York's most violent, black wall of silence

react with black talons when wolfpacks are wylin

For a white cat, gotta admit I can rap-ta-tat-tat

my nightstick, on the top of your cap

My blackjack you'll be swallowin for protestin and hollerin

The policy is quality of life and zero tolerance

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What is the law? Know you heard this before

We find contraband in your car, we breakin your jaw

What is the law? Nigga, mathematics for sure

If they walkin in packs of four, they tryin to score

For any - drug bust or cocaine that's raw

better believe we takin our twenty percent at the door

What is the law? Wolfpacks, movin on all fours

I'm flawless with weaponry, mentally ready for war

(What is the law?.. What is the..)

[Pharoahe Monch]

Any formalities in the case of police brutality

I've escaped on finer details and minor technicalities

Here's a verbal medley of deadly force used

Readily abused in that old Ku Kluk pedigree

You better be heavily armed, forever we ready your song

Steadily ready to move and bomb

I'm like - Hercules, when I work my knees

It's a - search and seize that'll hurt indeed

God bless when the bullets hit the chest you'll backflip

SWAT - Special Weapons And Tactics; theatrics hot

on your block we lock down all shenanigans

When we roll you stand stiff like mannequins

Take the position for broomstick penetration (uh)

Legal under the Mayor's new administration

YOU - better forever have your identification

I broke the mold for holds that cause asphyxiation

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