Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands
And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold
And peace to this young warrior without the sound of guns
If I could recollect before my hood days I'd sit and reminisce, thinking of bliss of the good days I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em
They tested, it was stress that they under And nowadays things changed
Everyone's ashamed to the youth cause the truth looks strange
And for me it's reversed, we left them a world that's cursed, and it hurts
'cause any day they'll push the button and you all condemned like Malcolm X and Bobby Hutton, died for nothing Don't them let me get teary, the world looks dreary but when you wipe your eyes, see it clearly there's no need for you to fear me if you take your time to hear me, maybe you can learn to cheer me
it ain't about black or white, cause we're human I hope we see the light before its ruined my ghetto gospel
Tell me do you see that old lady ain't it sad Living out a bag, but she's glad for the little things she has And over there there's a lady, crack got her crazy
Guess she's given birth to a baby I don't trip and let it fade me, from outta the frying pan We jump into another form of slavery Even now I get discouraged
Wonder if they take it all back while I still keep the courage
I refuse to be a role model I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottles
I make mistakes, I learn from everyone And when it's said and done
I bet this Brother be a better one If I upset you, don't stress
Never forget, that God hasn't finished with me yet I feel his hand on my brain
When I write rhymes, I go blind, and let the lord do his thang
But am I less holy 'cause I choose to puff a blunt and drink a beer with my homies Before we find world peace We gotta find peace and end the war on the streets My ghetto gospel
[Chorus - Elton John]
Lord can you hear me speak! To pay the price of being hell bound.. (sing365)
The lyrics discuss the evil Tupac perceived in society and state a number of reasons our lives are ruled by fear. He pays tribute to murdered black activists Malcolm X and Bobby Hutton. (songfacts)
Hutton outside the Oakland Police Department Jail
Hutton met Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale at the North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center, a "government-funded agency that employed local youth to work on community service projects." In October 1966, the 16-year-old Hutton became the first member and the first treasurer of the Black Panther Party. In May 1967, Hutton was one of thirty Panthers who traveled to the California state capitol in Sacramento to demonstrate against the Mulford Act, a bill that would prohibit carrying loaded firearms in public. The group walked in to the state assembly armed. Hutton and four other Panthers were arrested.
On the night of April 6, 1968, Bobby was killed by Oakland Police officers after a botched ambush attempt on the Oakland Police by Eldridge Cleaver and thirteen other Panthers. The impetus for the police ambush was the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4. The botched ambush turned into shoot out between the Panthers and the Oakland police at a house in West Oakland. About 90 minutes later Hutton and Cleaver surrendered after the police tear gassed the building.
Eldridge Cleaver stated that police shot Bobby more than a dozen times and had stripped down to his underwear to prove that he was unarmed. The police maintained that Hutton attempted to run away and ignored orders to stop. According to Eldridge Cleaver, one Oakland police officer who witnessed the shoot out later told him "What they did was first degree murder." Cleaver and two police officers were also wounded.
He was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, but did not have a gravestone until 2003, 35 years after his death.Bobby Hutton's death at the hands of the Oakland police was, for those sympathetic to the Black Panther Party, yet another example of police brutality against blacks. Hutton was the first panther to die and "immediately became a martyr for the cause of black power." (wikipedia)
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