Give me your tired and your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Icebreaker!
I know a silent nation in dislocation
Frustration from legislation
Led to demographic in isolation
Another participation in decapitation
Ten-four die, river deep, mountain high
Is a wall stuck between dyin' and doing time
Can't ignore it, smack dab border war
As the beat goes on, words flowed on
I caught the law pyramids, Machu Picchu
Things they don't teach you don't apologize
You were here first on this earth
Before these millennial cowboys
Claimed their turf
Now who's a thousand miles and
Ran deserted in the desert?
Wild, wild west hurt to the dirt
Anti-immigration against brown skin
Sounds like Brownshirts
Silenced by so called legal violence
Somebody had permission to put
Humans in this condition
"This land is whose land?"
They must've forgot
Kickin' the black in the ass
While keeping the brown out
This one sided law makes me scream and shout
IC-E is what I'm talkin' about
IC-E
Sgt Hawkes, and I'm found where the cops be
I get on illegals like I'm a paparazzi
I bring flash, but it ain't a camera
Gunfire shells hot enough to damage ya
No traffickin', no drug smugglin'
IC-E, we came in thuggin'
Straight off the wire like Snoop and Chris
You can Rush like Limbaugh we
Get at you quick
What will they do when they
Find out about this
Come for me, for what I represent
This is my accent and I'm proud of it
We're bunches and cannot be stopped
Absurd laws with racist intentions
Benefit only to these classifiers
They insist, I insist - so here we go
Broken chains, jumping borders
Thrive or die, we're no longer satisfied
Its time for power to change hands
More righteous humans, is more human rights
They say, they owners, but we were here first
The world is free and
Without fear we broadcast
Multi-color race, is how we're painted
I have a dream and that
Dream has become my desire
Power to my peoples
Not power to the governments
My, my, my, ooh wee
You should know how the story go
They was here first, you put it in reverse
You didn't even call for a hearse when you
Left them dying in your country
Car radios, highway hoes, motorbike types
Skateboarder whores
Watch them close them doors
Clap them hands, stomp them feet
Yeah, the more government wars
Good man, bad government, great driver
Wack car i seen it before
Marxism, dual citizens, China support
Meaning y'all go get a passport
Slavery is America's past sport
Homeland Security against my
Homeboys securin' me
Chained brains diaspora coming after
The same idea of the United States of Africa
Bering Strait before Palin and paleface
Waitin' for the ice to break
Seventy percent of Americans ain't
Been no place
So the human race gets displaced
While the greedy man sees the land
His plan, seize the land to feed his face
A child lost in the wild picked your food
Built your house while still on exile
Barbed wire cactus, the new middle passage
To a person
The new whirl odors just rehearsing
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
Damn
By the time I get to the end of my verse
Calisthenics of the tongue
Exercising the first
That's freedom of speech so I speak my right
Seems to me there'll always
Be powers to fight so Chuck
Let them know that the Bulls break ice
With the power of these words that
We put within a mic
Like those in the past put power to pen
It was number thirteen, made us all equal men
Now Arizona back to legislate the hate
Guess freedom ain't free on this
Side of the gate but everything changes if I
Look a certain way
Securing the homeland from how it was made
Now the ice that we skate
Upon is definitely thin
We got to break bad to let the good begin
A cold flag pole grabbed a hold of my tongue
Five-I froze and we all got dumb
I'm gonna be keep on doing the
Thing that's supposed to be done
Put it on the poor thing doing the one
Get back, yeah, baby, yeah ah
Icebreaker, icebreaker
(Ow)
One man's terrorist
Another's freedom fighter
Future tech, Molotov cocktails with a lighter
Legalized gang shit, Federal BI
You wanna buy a weapon
They won't hesitate a second
Whether African, Mexican, Middle East
Or Haitian
Slaughter indigenous, plunder the nation
Petition the UN to gain legal traction
Then call you the enemy to justify the action
The brown in this world will only draw ire
Of the secret society soul sucking vampires
Either I come from a long line of liars
Or a degenerate senator's pants are on fire
Surround you with the walls
To protect your freedom
Overlappin' laws to ensure confusion
Protect your neck in the 2012 season
Then bounce a check in the bank of illusion
Home grown terrorist, for the benefit
Can't find a title or the name, yeah
That really fit's
These land jackers, paleface land grabbers
Caught in a border war
Stench of the border whores
Real demons, fiendin' for a real reason
You can't truss 'em cause
They always f*ckin' schemin'
Broke treaties with the red man, damn!
Klan disguised as a fam? F*ck Uncle Sam!
Pause for the cause and open mental doors
These foreign invaders and
Human traffic traders
Undocumented worker, yeah, they want it back
Panic when the brown man
Link with the pro-Black
Now who's the real citizen? You never been
You raped and robbed every people, yeah
That let you in
The legalized theft of the native land
You speak with the forked tongue
With the rum and the gun in hand
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E
At least fifty-five million immigrants
One-fifty of the population
Are either immigrants or
Children of immigrants (Icebreaker)
(The IC-E) we found that missing changes
In the immigration laws
And regional enforcement by
The federal government
Are maybe unfairly targeting thousands
Families are being broken up
"I believe that the congressman
Or the senator, somebody out
There is going to step up and say, 'yeah
This is wrong'"
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Give me your tired and your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Icebreaker!
I know a silent nation in dislocation
Frustration from legislation
Led to demographic in isolation
Another participation in decapitation
Ten-four die, river deep, mountain high
Is a wall stuck between dyin' and doing time
Can't ignore it, smack dab border war
As the beat goes on, words flowed on
I caught the law pyramids, Machu Picchu
Things they don't teach you don't apologize
You were here first on this earth
Before these millennial cowboys
Claimed their turf
Now who's a thousand miles and
Ran deserted in the desert?
Wild, wild west hurt to the dirt
Anti-immigration against brown skin
Sounds like Brownshirts
Silenced by so called legal violence
Somebody had permission to put
Humans in this condition
"This land is whose land?"
They must've forgot
Kickin' the black in the ass
While keeping the brown out
This one sided law makes me scream and shout
IC-E is what I'm talkin' about
IC-E
Sgt Hawkes, and I'm found where the cops be
I get on illegals like I'm a paparazzi
I bring flash, but it ain't a camera
Gunfire shells hot enough to damage ya
No traffickin', no drug smugglin'
IC-E, we came in thuggin'
Straight off the wire like Snoop and Chris
You can Rush like Limbaugh we
Get at you quick
What will they do when they
Find out about this
Come for me, for what I represent
This is my accent and I'm proud of it
We're bunches and cannot be stopped
Absurd laws with racist intentions
Benefit only to these classifiers
They insist, I insist - so here we go
Broken chains, jumping borders
Thrive or die, we're no longer satisfied
Its time for power to change hands
More righteous humans, is more human rights
They say, they owners, but we were here first
The world is free and
Without fear we broadcast
Multi-color race, is how we're painted
I have a dream and that
Dream has become my desire
Power to my peoples
Not power to the governments
My, my, my, ooh wee
You should know how the story go
They was here first, you put it in reverse
You didn't even call for a hearse when you
Left them dying in your country
Car radios, highway hoes, motorbike types
Skateboarder whores
Watch them close them doors
Clap them hands, stomp them feet
Yeah, the more government wars
Good man, bad government, great driver
Wack car i seen it before
Marxism, dual citizens, China support
Meaning y'all go get a passport
Slavery is America's past sport
Homeland Security against my
Homeboys securin' me
Chained brains diaspora coming after
The same idea of the United States of Africa
Bering Strait before Palin and paleface
Waitin' for the ice to break
Seventy percent of Americans ain't
Been no place
So the human race gets displaced
While the greedy man sees the land
His plan, seize the land to feed his face
A child lost in the wild picked your food
Built your house while still on exile
Barbed wire cactus, the new middle passage
To a person
The new whirl odors just rehearsing
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
Damn
By the time I get to the end of my verse
Calisthenics of the tongue
Exercising the first
That's freedom of speech so I speak my right
Seems to me there'll always
Be powers to fight so Chuck
Let them know that the Bulls break ice
With the power of these words that
We put within a mic
Like those in the past put power to pen
It was number thirteen, made us all equal men
Now Arizona back to legislate the hate
Guess freedom ain't free on this
Side of the gate but everything changes if I
Look a certain way
Securing the homeland from how it was made
Now the ice that we skate
Upon is definitely thin
We got to break bad to let the good begin
A cold flag pole grabbed a hold of my tongue
Five-I froze and we all got dumb
I'm gonna be keep on doing the
Thing that's supposed to be done
Put it on the poor thing doing the one
Get back, yeah, baby, yeah ah
Icebreaker, icebreaker
(Ow)
One man's terrorist
Another's freedom fighter
Future tech, Molotov cocktails with a lighter
Legalized gang shit, Federal BI
You wanna buy a weapon
They won't hesitate a second
Whether African, Mexican, Middle East
Or Haitian
Slaughter indigenous, plunder the nation
Petition the UN to gain legal traction
Then call you the enemy to justify the action
The brown in this world will only draw ire
Of the secret society soul sucking vampires
Either I come from a long line of liars
Or a degenerate senator's pants are on fire
Surround you with the walls
To protect your freedom
Overlappin' laws to ensure confusion
Protect your neck in the 2012 season
Then bounce a check in the bank of illusion
Home grown terrorist, for the benefit
Can't find a title or the name, yeah
That really fit's
These land jackers, paleface land grabbers
Caught in a border war
Stench of the border whores
Real demons, fiendin' for a real reason
You can't truss 'em cause
They always f*ckin' schemin'
Broke treaties with the red man, damn!
Klan disguised as a fam? F*ck Uncle Sam!
Pause for the cause and open mental doors
These foreign invaders and
Human traffic traders
Undocumented worker, yeah, they want it back
Panic when the brown man
Link with the pro-Black
Now who's the real citizen? You never been
You raped and robbed every people, yeah
That let you in
The legalized theft of the native land
You speak with the forked tongue
With the rum and the gun in hand
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E
At least fifty-five million immigrants
One-fifty of the population
Are either immigrants or
Children of immigrants (Icebreaker)
(The IC-E) we found that missing changes
In the immigration laws
And regional enforcement by
The federal government
Are maybe unfairly targeting thousands
Families are being broken up
"I believe that the congressman
Or the senator, somebody out
There is going to step up and say, 'yeah
This is wrong'"
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Icebreaker!
I know a silent nation in dislocation
Frustration from legislation
Led to demographic in isolation
Another participation in decapitation
Ten-four die, river deep, mountain high
Is a wall stuck between dyin' and doing time
Can't ignore it, smack dab border war
As the beat goes on, words flowed on
I caught the law pyramids, Machu Picchu
Things they don't teach you don't apologize
You were here first on this earth
Before these millennial cowboys
Claimed their turf
Now who's a thousand miles and
Ran deserted in the desert?
Wild, wild west hurt to the dirt
Anti-immigration against brown skin
Sounds like Brownshirts
Silenced by so called legal violence
Somebody had permission to put
Humans in this condition
"This land is whose land?"
They must've forgot
Kickin' the black in the ass
While keeping the brown out
This one sided law makes me scream and shout
IC-E is what I'm talkin' about
IC-E
Sgt Hawkes, and I'm found where the cops be
I get on illegals like I'm a paparazzi
I bring flash, but it ain't a camera
Gunfire shells hot enough to damage ya
No traffickin', no drug smugglin'
IC-E, we came in thuggin'
Straight off the wire like Snoop and Chris
You can Rush like Limbaugh we
Get at you quick
What will they do when they
Find out about this
Come for me, for what I represent
This is my accent and I'm proud of it
We're bunches and cannot be stopped
Absurd laws with racist intentions
Benefit only to these classifiers
They insist, I insist - so here we go
Broken chains, jumping borders
Thrive or die, we're no longer satisfied
Its time for power to change hands
More righteous humans, is more human rights
They say, they owners, but we were here first
The world is free and
Without fear we broadcast
Multi-color race, is how we're painted
I have a dream and that
Dream has become my desire
Power to my peoples
Not power to the governments
My, my, my, ooh wee
You should know how the story go
They was here first, you put it in reverse
You didn't even call for a hearse when you
Left them dying in your country
Car radios, highway hoes, motorbike types
Skateboarder whores
Watch them close them doors
Clap them hands, stomp them feet
Yeah, the more government wars
Good man, bad government, great driver
Wack car i seen it before
Marxism, dual citizens, China support
Meaning y'all go get a passport
Slavery is America's past sport
Homeland Security against my
Homeboys securin' me
Chained brains diaspora coming after
The same idea of the United States of Africa
Bering Strait before Palin and paleface
Waitin' for the ice to break
Seventy percent of Americans ain't
Been no place
So the human race gets displaced
While the greedy man sees the land
His plan, seize the land to feed his face
A child lost in the wild picked your food
Built your house while still on exile
Barbed wire cactus, the new middle passage
To a person
The new whirl odors just rehearsing
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
I'ma put the line in the
Sand huh! Cross that line
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the man in the
Sand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
Cause I'ma put the gun in his
Hand huh! Cross that man
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
I'ma put the fence in the
Sand huh! Climb that fence
Damn
By the time I get to the end of my verse
Calisthenics of the tongue
Exercising the first
That's freedom of speech so I speak my right
Seems to me there'll always
Be powers to fight so Chuck
Let them know that the Bulls break ice
With the power of these words that
We put within a mic
Like those in the past put power to pen
It was number thirteen, made us all equal men
Now Arizona back to legislate the hate
Guess freedom ain't free on this
Side of the gate but everything changes if I
Look a certain way
Securing the homeland from how it was made
Now the ice that we skate
Upon is definitely thin
We got to break bad to let the good begin
A cold flag pole grabbed a hold of my tongue
Five-I froze and we all got dumb
I'm gonna be keep on doing the
Thing that's supposed to be done
Put it on the poor thing doing the one
Get back, yeah, baby, yeah ah
Icebreaker, icebreaker
(Ow)
One man's terrorist
Another's freedom fighter
Future tech, Molotov cocktails with a lighter
Legalized gang shit, Federal BI
You wanna buy a weapon
They won't hesitate a second
Whether African, Mexican, Middle East
Or Haitian
Slaughter indigenous, plunder the nation
Petition the UN to gain legal traction
Then call you the enemy to justify the action
The brown in this world will only draw ire
Of the secret society soul sucking vampires
Either I come from a long line of liars
Or a degenerate senator's pants are on fire
Surround you with the walls
To protect your freedom
Overlappin' laws to ensure confusion
Protect your neck in the 2012 season
Then bounce a check in the bank of illusion
Home grown terrorist, for the benefit
Can't find a title or the name, yeah
That really fit's
These land jackers, paleface land grabbers
Caught in a border war
Stench of the border whores
Real demons, fiendin' for a real reason
You can't truss 'em cause
They always f*ckin' schemin'
Broke treaties with the red man, damn!
Klan disguised as a fam? F*ck Uncle Sam!
Pause for the cause and open mental doors
These foreign invaders and
Human traffic traders
Undocumented worker, yeah, they want it back
Panic when the brown man
Link with the pro-Black
Now who's the real citizen? You never been
You raped and robbed every people, yeah
That let you in
The legalized theft of the native land
You speak with the forked tongue
With the rum and the gun in hand
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E (IC-E)
Who gets deported and who goes free?
Who gets detained and who remains?
Who gets the card and who gets the plane?
The IC-E
At least fifty-five million immigrants
One-fifty of the population
Are either immigrants or
Children of immigrants (Icebreaker)
(The IC-E) we found that missing changes
In the immigration laws
And regional enforcement by
The federal government
Are maybe unfairly targeting thousands
Families are being broken up
"I believe that the congressman
Or the senator, somebody out
There is going to step up and say, 'yeah
This is wrong'"