Artist: Talib Kweli & Styles P Album: The Seven Song: In the Field Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com [Intro] "There was two kind of slaves, there was the house negro and the field negro. The house negro, they lived in the house, with master. The house negro, if the master said 'We got a good house here,' the house negro said, 'Yeah, we got a good house here.' Whenever the master said 'We,' he said 'We.' That's how you can tell a house negro. If the master got sick, the house negro will say 'What's the matter boss, we sick?' WE sick?! {*laughter*} That was that house negro. In those days he was called a house nigga, and that's what we call them today cause we still got some house niggaz running around here." [Styles P] The truth ain't negative, nor positive It's just the truth, ya dig? Yeah it's black on black crime but it's blue on black crime Police killin the brown man and doin no time The judge is a Nazi, D.A. in the Klan The jail's the plantation, they spread it across the land I'm thinkin what will that change? If big industry money, pays for campaigns (think about it) I know the 1 percenters lovin it The gov' run the people but people should run the government The day of reckonin is when the sleep wakes up And the 99 percenters can really cake up I ain't go to Harvard or Yale, I went to jail But hold a horse that's pale, and the slave ship sails It ain't on water but I know who's steerin it The reptilians hid the truth 'bout the pyramids (damn) My genetics, is kinetic The devil is a lie, his agenda is pathetic [Chorus: Talib Kweli + Styles P] I ain't no house nigga, I be in the field I be in the field, I be in the field But I ain't a slave, I'm a king and that's real I be in the field, I be in the field {"House nigga"} I ain't no house nigga, I be in the field I be in the field, I be in the field If we ain't got freedom, we ain't got free will I be in the field, I be in the field [Talib Kweli] Yeah, yeah there's black on black crime but there's white on white crime When you adjust for population all the numbers they align So why we never hear, white on white, on the nightly news? Ain't no profittin over criminalizin white dudes Poverty breeds criminals but watch what you call me Cause if I'm a criminal what about bankers on Wall Street? Or the fast food industry that be feedin us horse meat? Been this way since in the fields pickin sugar or coffee Nigga I ain't no house nigga, I be in the field Probably with the steel, now they got me on the wheels With the Ghost, too confident to be cocky to keep it real We veto that phony shit and block it like a bill Whether Bobby by the pound or, Whitney by the ki' We movin weight, it's a mistake to get money and make it free They'll lock up Jesus when they see wooly hair and burnt feet If you a felon you a slave, remember the Thirteenth, nigga [Chorus] [Styles P] I thought Barack could've been a spook who sat by the door But he signed a Dark Act, middle finger to the law Now I gotta get a foreign plan to eat raw But I wouldn't be surprised if they killed me on tour Life is a bitch, America is a whore Get sick and try to see this little picture I draw You could have a gun but need bullets to go to war You already half-dead from the food that's in the stores [Talib Kweli] Ghost, these rappers ain't better tellin tales so tall A whole industry of employees pretendin that they the boss Niggaz that you thought was official is fallin off Shit ain't been the same since the '95 Source Every breath that we take is a threat, they pissed off If we alive we get put in the system and get lost My mother scared for us, prepared for the loss But sayin shit like "If you die make sure you got on clean drawers" [Chorus] [Outro] "I'm a field negro, just as the slave master of that day used Tom, the house negro, to keep the field negroes in check. The same old slave master today, has negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Tom's to keep you and me in check, keep us passive and peaceful. It's like when you go to the dentist, and the man is gon' take your tooth. You gon' bite him, when he start pulling. So they squirt some stuff in your jaw called Novocaine to make you think they not doing anything to you. So you sit there and cause you got all that Novocaine in your jaw you suffer, peacefully." {*laughter and applause*}