"I’m on the warpath" - dead prez

"I’m on the warpath"

• dead prez, Warpath (Released: June 23, 2003)

Genius Annotation:

There are two perspectives in “Warpath:”

In verse one (by Stic) we get the perspective of a victim of police violence – who has correctly identified his inculpable enemy (the police –the “psychopathic arm of the state”) and become revolutionary (“So I ran up in the precinct and I shot the sheriff”). In Verse two (by M-1) we get the perspective of the demonic- voiced police officer, the perpetrator – who has correctly and unremorsefully identified his true function in the lives of oppressed people:

“You’re living in hell And I’m the gatekeeper My boss is the Grim Reaper Better known as the sergeant of the pig department And guess what’s next for the X generation I’m about to turn the whole damn ‘hood into a slave ship”

–M-1, Verse 2

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