The Devil is Alive

[Unknown] You know that it's your job To stop drug dealers from selling drugs In the country And you turned a blind eye [B Dolan] Push, push, push That poison in the bright sunshine Who made noise from '82 to '89 And became the name all on they mind Selling death to the deaf, dumb and blind Hard white to the Crips and the Bloods Streets know the price and the kid who it was Feds gave him life While his name gave life To a maybach rapper using fiction for a crutch Hush Rewind the story and pause it a second Who are the bosses? Where are the weapons? Who are the capos And who's the lieutenant? You claiming "gangsta" but who do you threaten? Pay taxes to actual king-pins Do the math on the fashion you mimic Cause fake IDs get confiscated You wanna be the boss you stole the wrong name then Shoulda' called yourself Ronald Reagan Shoulda' called yourself Oliver North Cause there's a lot more then portrait you painted Attached to the name of the real Rick Ross They been selling you a lie And the devil is alive Sell drugs, get rich Another rapper spitting bullshit School's closed Locked in Killer cops occupied by the dope biz Overdose to the double homicide Bow your head cause a lot of people died And went away for just trying to survive Motherfucker cause the devil is alive The devil is alive Which one are you? The devil is alive And there's a killer on the loose That's not a boss, that's an actor The real Rick Ross, is not a rapper True American horror: Reaganomics! Night of the living base-heads Iran-Contra The C.I.A. ran guns and drugs from Nicaragua Looking for a front to cover a black market Run black ops Blindfold the congress And funnel poor people into cells for a profit Listen to the evil that these devils concocted Listen to the evil: The real Rick Ross was an everyday hustler Who was propped up by agents undercover Blinded by pride To the lies of another They disguised as a port of Miami drug runner Supplied with ingredients to fire up the oven Next thing you notice every block got flooded Buying up the "freeway" flying up above it He thought he was a Don 'til they played him like a puppet Little did he know that he was copping from the government D.E.A. agents engaged in the smuggling L.A.P.D. batterram ran amok with it Meanwhile Rickie's in a cell on some sucker shit Locked in a box while they pardoned them other men Twenty years later Came home disgusted Turn on the radio "Rick Ross" running shit? "What the fuck is this?!" Now some white kids bump it And imagine they "hustling." Found with some white in a bag and that's nothing Twenty-five to life for crack well that's justice Sorry I'm a hater but my anger's so productive Said he was "the truth" so we had to discuss this Drug dealer fantasy America's in love with From hip-hop to TV shows The world is a trap Cause God's a C.O [Freeway Rick Ross] (B Dolan) You know when you're young And you're impressionable (And the devil is alive) And you see something and you say "Aw man that shit is real." (The devil is alive) [B Dolan] Sell drugs, get rich Another rapper spitting bullshit School's closed Locked in Killer cops occupied by the dope biz Overdose to the double homicide Bow your head cause a lot of people died And went away for just trying to survive Motherfucker cause the devil is alive Is it truth or it's fiction? Is it you or the fiction When they strung out on that shit And the youth come up missin' Or they laying on a table In a room for admissions It's a tragedy of fools This is true people's history Calling it a war but it's more like an industry Cautionary tale how they profit off of misery And sell it right back to the poor Who they consider cheap! Then re-up and repeat It's retaught and retold It's re-bought and reused 'Til they come and repo' [Freeway Rick Ross] ... just like with the rapper that's using my name, Rick Ross I believe he's giving kids the wrong impression that you can go out and sell drugs ... [Gary Webb] We mentioned obviously that Reagan was in power when he authorized the secret war down there But you know Clinton's in power now and those are the folks that put Danilo Bladon on the federal payroll I mean ... the guy that brought crack to L.A. is now a federal government employee [B Dolan] Because the devil is alive