T-ISAAM FEATURING DJ MAGIC MIKE - Lock Down lyrics

(feat. DJ Magic Mike)

[VERSE 1: T-Isaam]

Now they're takin me to part D

Cell number 461, gee

With nothin but some blues and some flip-flops

One blanket and a mattress hard as rocks

Headed to the dwellings of the felons

Nothin but murderers and drug sellers

But as I walk through I don't feel bad

Cause I see a lotta homies from the pad

So I know if anything goes down

That I'm down with every nigga in the compound

And everybody's askin me, "What's up

Why they got T-Isaam in handcuffs?"

Most figure it's the drug bust

Cause they figure that I'm out slingin dust

And a nigga must've slipped up

Or got tripped up, damn I should've dipped up

But now it's too late for second-guessin

And maybe this time I'll learn my lesson

Change my life and make a turnaround

But that's what you think when you're headed to lock down

[VERSE 2: T-Isaam]

When I was on the right track

I found the right track wasn't nothin but the white track

My mama didn't raise me that way

The white folks made me that way

Nigga this, nigga that is all I heard

Now nigga is a everyday word

It is hard for me to understand

Why I'm usin it more than the white man

Damn, I'm even thinkin like them

But unlike them my future's lookin dim

No hope in the system, so I diss em

And don't associate with em

Just stay in my shell of livin hell

That's all I can do when I dwell

In lock down

[VERSE 3: T-Isaam]

I wish I could go home

Back to the streets where a nigga used to roam

Pimp daddy's in the Brougham

30s or low's, get the hoes, and so on

And things were goin swell

Just bought a new Jeep and turned on the cell

But now I'm in a real cell

And Ma Bell can't pay a nigga's bail

So I'm stuck in this rut till I make a plea

Not guilty, and maybe I'll go free

And live the life of a wife and a picket fence

White fence, now I'm back to feelin tense

About the messed up system that I'm livin in

So I'm back again

In lock down