Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year

{Before I go, I'd like to say a few things This album was completed on January fifteenth, nineteen ninety-one By now the war has probably started And a whole bunch of people have probably died Out there in the desert over some bullshit There's a war goin' on right now in my neighborhood But I can't really determine which one's worse I think the one that we are all fightin' is f**ked up And that's the war inside out brains, you know} {But, uh, I feel bad about all the brothers And sisters gettin' pulled right out of their neighborhoods All the cities and small towns in America That go over there and fight for that bullshit That most of them don't really have anything to do with So, I gotta send peace out to them Also peace out to all my homies in jail Brothers that are dead locked up right here on earth} {Talkin' about the brothers in Solidad, San Quetin All the way up to Pelicans Bay, Tracy, Chino And all my homeboys out there in the East Coast lockdown facilities I'm talkin' about Clinton, Rikers, Jolead You know, every prison in the whole f**kin' world, man That's like, you know, that's all bullshit, you know They say slavery has been abolished except for the convicted felon You'll need to think about that That lets you know what the f**kin' constitution is really about, you know A lot of my homeboys have been locked down My whole entire career and that's some bullshit} {So for them from the Rhyme Syndicate and Ice-T, I'd like to send This special shout out, 'f**k the police, f**k the F.B.I., f**k the D.E.A. f**k the C.I.A., f**k Tipper Gore, Bush and his cripple bitch' This is Ice-T, I'm out of here, told you, you should've killed me last year}