[ti:Lockdown (Explicit)] [ar:Anderson .Paak] [al:Lockdown (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lockdown (Explicit) - Anderson .Paak [00:02.67]Lyrics by:Brandon Anderson/Jason Pounds/Jeff Gitelman/Kenya Rae Johnson/Vicky Farewell Nguyen [00:05.35]You should've been downtown [00:07.10]Ayy [00:07.67]The people are risin' [00:09.34]Yeah [00:10.14]We thought it was a lockdown [00:11.78]What [00:12.58]They opened the fire [00:14.15]D**n [00:14.89]Them bullets was flyin' [00:16.52]Ooh [00:17.27]Who said it was a lockdown godd**n lie [00:19.72]Oh my time heals all but you outta time now [00:22.56]Now [00:22.93]Judge gotta watch us from the clock tower [00:24.96]True [00:25.22]Lil' tear gas cleared the whole place out [00:27.39]I'll be back with the hazmat for the next round [00:29.74]We was tryin' to protest then the fires broke out [00:32.10]Look out for the secret agents they be planted in the crowd [00:34.53]Said"It's civil unrest" but you sleep so sound [00:36.94]Like you don't hear the screams when we catchin' beatdowns [00:39.32]Stayin' quiet when they killin' n***as but you speak loud [00:41.80]When we ride got opinions comin' from a place of priv' [00:44.07]Sicker than the COVID how they did him on the ground [00:46.54]Speakin' of the COVID is it still goin' around [00:48.83]Oh won't you tell me 'bout the lootin' what's that really all about [00:51.35]'Cause they throw away black lives like paper towels [00:53.78]Plus unemployment rate what forty million now [00:56.06]Killed a man in broad day might never see a trial [00:58.62]We just wanna break chains like slaves in the South [01:00.96]Started in the North End but we in the downtown [01:03.35]Riot cops try to block now we gotta show down [01:05.78]Citizens of Los Angeles [01:06.87]D**n [01:07.34]I hereby declare this to be an unlawful assembly [01:10.16]And in the name of the people of the State of California [01:12.49]You should've been downtown [01:14.92]The people are risin' [01:17.00]Right here [01:17.62]We thought it was a lockdown [01:19.69]They opened the fire [01:22.12]Them bullets was flyin' [01:23.67]Lockdown [01:24.58]Who said it was a lockdown godd**n lie [01:26.50]We ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to [01:27.79]And downtown where I got popped with the rubber bullet [01:32.48]Tre pound got it in my name now I'ma shoot it [01:37.19]Never understand why they do it [01:39.04]Someone cut the channel off the news 'fore I loose it [01:41.26]Lah [01:41.55]I ain't even trippin' if you wit' it then we lootin' [01:43.53]Nah [01:43.95]Help me put this Louis in the back of Suzuki [01:46.12]Ooh o-he [01:46.90]Had to break it down so smoothly [01:48.34]Slow [01:48.66]They gon' say"It's not about race" but we movin' ho pow [01:51.90]Okay [01:52.33]Got the tre pound had to put in my name [01:54.32]Wish a n***a play now [01:55.56]Yeah [01:55.82]Any given day I'll be headed to the pulpits [01:58.08]Yeah [01:58.26]Say a lil' prayer matter fact I need two of 'em [02:00.68]Ooh [02:01.09]Only do it only do it [02:02.88]Ooh [02:03.07]This ain't '92 so we learn the new rules [02:05.40]N***a got hip so we don't loot the projects [02:07.72]'Bout to hit Rodeo with my lil' cousin Marcus [02:10.23]Someone threw a whole brick in the Neiman Marcus [02:12.38]Ah [02:12.61]Help me put the whole mannequin in the Charger [02:14.99]You should've been downtown [02:16.71]Down [02:17.23]The people are risin' [02:18.87]Look around [02:19.75]We thought it was a lockdown [02:21.58]Lockdown [02:22.12]They opened the fire [02:23.06]Had to get low fire [02:24.62]Them bullets was flyin' [02:26.01]Down down [02:26.86]Who said it was a lockdown godd**n lie [02:29.25]Ooh-wee [02:30.04]Lockdown we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to [02:34.57]And downtown where I got popped with the rubber bullet [02:39.59]Tre pound [02:40.63]Uh got it in my name now I'ma shoot it [02:44.41]Lockdown we ain't gotta stop 'cause they tell us to [02:48.90]And downtown