Shadow Business
(专辑: Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell - 2006)
[Samples:] "When you were over in American Samoa, what surprised you the
most?" "I guess what hit me the
most was the
condition of the
factory that the
workers were in The
factory was surrounded by a
fence and barbed wire on top, and on the
bottom And they have a
chain linked fence around the
whole factory, and military compound The
gate has a
guard shack where the
guard sit there and ... the
worker movement In and out of the
factory, the
factory made of tin panels, tin roof, it's really hot The
temperature over there is regularly ninety degrees, and inside the
factory it reach way over a
hundred degrees" [Vinnie Paz:] Yeah, it's a
contemporary form of slavery, they call it slave labor But they don't prosecute them 'cause it's how they make paper When you rocking that fly shit that's made in China By an eight year old child trying to feed his mama He exposed to contamination and disease And only fifty-five percent of them will get degrees And the
women have to try to placate the
boss Because of sex discrimination in the
labor force The
slave master only let them speak in sign language And they suffering from lung disease and eye damage Fourteen hour shifts, seven days a
week Two shitty meals a
day, very little sleep Human life only worth three cents an hour All human rights lost, no sense of power Working for a
hundred years in the
grave passes Only the
improved cleverness of slave masters Is life worth living if you living in Hell? When the
mind is confined to a
prisoner cell? And the
lies they devise and the
system, it fail But I
expect the
system to fail Is life worth living if you living in Hell? When the
mind is confined to a
prisoner cell? And the
lies they devise and the
system, it fail But I
expect the
system to fail [Samples:] "Many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements known as "Shadow contracts" before they leave China severely, and in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on American soil Workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political activities or to ask for a
salary increase, or even to fall in love or get married" [Vinnie Paz:] It's 1.6 million people locked in jail They the
new slave labor force, trapped in Hell They generate over a
billion dollars worth of power And only getting paid twenty cents an hour They make clothes for McDonald's and for Applebee's And working forty-hour shifts in prison factories And while we sit around debating who the
wack MC's They have to work when arthritic pain attack the
knees Slavery's not illegal, that's a
fucking lie It's illegal, unless it's for conviction of a
crime The
main objective is to get you in your fucking prime And keep the
prison full and not give you a
fucking dime But they the
real criminal, keeping you confined For a
petty crime, but they give you two-to-nine And ain't nobody there to protect ya Except a
bunch of incompetent human rights inspectors Is life worth living if you living in Hell? When the
mind is confined to a
prisoner cell? And the
lies they devise and the
system, it fail But I
expect the
system to fail Is life worth living if you living in Hell? When the
mind is confined to a
prisoner cell? And the
lies they devise and the
system, it fail But I
expect the
system to fail [Samples:] "The sweatshop situation kind of conveys it and kind of take advantage of the
people that are poor and at an economic disadvantage" "This Chinese woman made T-shirts and pants at the
factory until she became pregnant ... says she refused to have the
abortion And has now been barred from entering the
factory" "Allowing them to bring that onto US soil is a
very big concern We've now documented the
fact that management coerces female workers who become pregnant into having abortions" "Human rights workers say it's common practice" "Inside that factory, Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is supreme" "Even though it's the
United States of America?" "The flag doesn't fly inside there"