Ward of the State - Askari X

Ward of the State Lyrics

I done some time, about 2 or 3 years locked down in a juvenile correctional facility.
They tried to shake me break me but I was a soldier I wouldn't let them make me.
Do what they wanted me to do the Revolution was on in the jailhouse too, see a brother like me with sense is a threat to everything the system represents.
And they knew they couldn't stop it I caught a case for a gun and they wasn't gonna drop it.
Gettin free to me that was my assignment, I spent a lot of time in solitary confinement.
Many attempts was made to keep me quiet I brought fear to their ears they hear the sound of a riot.
I gave the black power salute to my troops I raised my arm to the sound of a riot alarm.
Now I know the gonna throw me in the hole I gotta do a couple of weeks in solitary control.
I've been locked down, shipped around from cell to cell, thru my years no tears fell from these black eyes. As they rise cross the ceiling, I'm feeling aggression capitalism the cause of my oppression.

Many times I tried to break, they say the only one to hear my prayers as me. I went to court I looked in the judge eyes I saw hate, he tried fade me he made me a ward of the state.
(chorus 3x's) Ward of the state being locked down, locked down a mutha fuccin ward of the state.
Now I'm a ward of the state and it's simple, I'm not a house niggaz so it's gettin to my temple.
I don't say yes sir no sir, I don't like white folks so I don't let'em closer then 3-feet, any closer they sleep on the concrete getting woke up by my feet. Cuz I remember I was in jail in December, the pigs came into my room fast and kicked my ass.
Just because I exposed'em, all the brothas know now becuz I told'em. The Pigs ain't nothing but another organize oppressive Army none compliant in our community.
So now I'm sitting in a courtroom and everything is quiet you trying to get me for inciting a riot.
They told me that they was the hostess, I'm 18 they check my records & they seen through my past
Behavior the way I direct my anger that I'm a major threat to the white folks safety So they sentenced me to the California Youth Authority.
And it don't feel great being lockdown, a mutha fuccin ward of the state.
(Repeat chorus 3x's)
My time 89 growing up in a jail, doing push ups in my cell so my chest can swell. Living life as a juvenile lockdown, it's got me going insane, but can I maintain?
As I close my eyes I'm hoping when they open it's a dream but it's the same old thing. Now I'm looking at the 4 Walls and it seem like they closing on me.
I'm dozing off to sleep I toss & turn through the night, my momma used to tell me it's gone be alright. But now they don't even let me see her.
I'm going from Y.A. from Y.A. to Santeria. And then to the Pen. it's like torture, taking orders from my aggressor.
Now I'm thinking of a way I can end this, wrap the sheet around my neck & then my rest will be endless.
But I can't pretend this is the way, I know that revolution is the only solution for me to be free. I heard the news it didn't Shock Me my public Defender was a pretender he was in it to wash me.
So I'm sitting in a jail for a crime that I didn't commit & I'm mad as shit. I know I gotta get away if I don't they gonna lock me up in C.Y.A.
So I'm thinking of a master plan but I gotta think faster damn. Cuz my time is coming up short on the 21st they gonna ship me to the airport. And it don't feel great being lockdown, a mutha fuccin ward of the state.
(Repeat chorus 3 x's)
They won't let me get a phone call, but they better not let me write a letter. I wrote the Aruru house & I told them to bring the helicopter to the courtyard and drop the Rope.
And I'll be right there with my black power fist held high in the air. I told the crew that the answer was coming to get me, & they said they was down to come with me.
The time to leave was 4 o'clock, we got our door open cuz we stuffed the lock. I walk to the corner and I'm hoping that the night man is sleep, he got his back to me, & he's watching TV.
I snuck up on him like a creeper, banked to the grill then I got'em in a sleeper. Now it only takes 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, now the job is done.
I grabbed his keys & I opened up the door, thinking of freedom is I'm trapped in the courtyard. I know pretty soon the Pigs are gone running but that's ok I hear the helicopter coming. I heard a voice ask X is that you?
A light in my face that's when I screened out Aruru. He dropped the letter I started to climb visions of freedom flash through my mind. Half way up the ladder I fell and hit the ground, my mind went blank like I was smoking on dank.
I remember waking up saying what the f*** when the staff said get up it's time for morning wash up.
It was a dream & it don't feel great, I'm still in jail a mutha fuckin ward of the state!