Lil’ Wayne Spits the Turth on the Prison Epidemic.
On his new album, Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne discusses the racial injustices that exists in the US prison system in his song “DontGetIt”. The album is the first in 3 years to sell over a million copies its first week.
“I was watching TV the other day right
Got this white guy up there talking about black guys
Talking about how young black guys are targeted
Targeted by whom? America
You see one in every 100 Americans are locked up
One in every 9 black Americans are locked up
And see what the white guy was trying to stress was that
The money we spend on sending a mothaf**ka to jail
A young mothaf**ka to jail
Would be less to send his or her young ass to college.”
Maybe the politicians and lobbyists should be listening to hip hop after all.
3 years ago