From the back of this cruiser,
I’m thinking about how it could all be different...
I’m thinking about my brother
sitting parallel in the other cruiser...
& my friend who’s still getting searched,
I hope they don’t pin something against us...
Young, black boy in America
About 20 guns pointed at us,
When a cop pulled us over...
I don’t even know where they came from,
But we were barricaded in a second...
“Open the door
& put your hands up where i can see them
Then walk backwards towards my voice”
In the meantime, we’re trying to figure out where all this chaos is from...
B/c we had just gotten out of a neighborhood
From seeing a friend...
When we noticed an officer get behind us
And started following along the way...
But the way he approached me with his headlights
I knew we were on for something there...
So we pulled over without a panic
B/c we knew that we’re cleared..
Officer, why’d you pull me over
Officer 1 - idk, but we have to search you guys and the vehicle
Officer, Why’d you pull me over
Officer 2 - suspicious activity going on in the area where you guys where headed out of
Officer, Why’d you pull me over
Officer 3 - you guys fit the description of a robbery that just occurred
It's 28 degrees outside,
I have on sweats but can feel it in my pores
& I'm pissed from just standing taking in every chill
As we wait, radio wave transmissions come through
Ironically blue sweat and black shoes were in the description
I’m sitting in the back of this cruiser...
I’m thinking about how it all happened in a second
I’m thinking I’m about margin of segregation...
If my brother Craig would’ve rolled with us,
it probably would’ve been different....
I mean, I’m trying to understand why our car is the only one
that got followed when we made the exit...
I’m keeping my composure,
Waiting patiently for the victims to come identify us...
And it takes them over an hour just to get there,
Mind you, it happened just 3minutes from where we were at
At this point I’m not trying to be belligerent,
So i gave it a few more minutes and they finally showed up,
The cops escorted us out the vehicle
Then flashed lights towards our faces
So we couldn’t capture what the victims looked like
As they tried to identify if we were the suspects
Luckily it went how we envisioned
& everyone made it to their respective houses
But I’d be damn to just scrap this image
Even if no one else cares about it