It's not just about blacks IMO, it's about America (well, the western world) regardless of race and how it is overrun with corruption from the big corporations.
You got the War on Drugs which makes substances like cocaine and weed more dangerous through lack of regulation and legitimate competition to the black market and of course it doesn't accomplish its hypocritical adjectives (alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical drugs do just as much harm as illicit drugs), it's just a huge business, profited from by the legal drug companies, the prison industry, the cops, the justice system. So people get put in prison for years for mere possession of certain drugs which results in doing irrepairable harm to the person which in turn does harm to society - all profited off from the big corporations
The institution of marriage has become another big business with the justice system making huge money, mostly from divorce.
There's also the outright disrespect for the constitution in the US, with the federal government taking most of the powers constitutionally allocated to state governments, hence Big Boi's verse which I think alludes to how federal agents still target medical marijuana users and dispensaries in states where it is legal, such as California.
On a lighter note I really love the "Don't everybody like the taste of apple pie/smell of gasolene" lines - they can either be interpreted as sarcastic rhetorical questions or defiant statements of outspokenness/alienation
It's not just about blacks IMO, it's about America (well, the western world) regardless of race and how it is overrun with corruption from the big corporations.
You got the War on Drugs which makes substances like cocaine and weed more dangerous through lack of regulation and legitimate competition to the black market and of course it doesn't accomplish its hypocritical adjectives (alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical drugs do just as much harm as illicit drugs), it's just a huge business, profited from by the legal drug companies, the prison industry, the cops, the justice system. So people get put in prison for years for mere possession of certain drugs which results in doing irrepairable harm to the person which in turn does harm to society - all profited off from the big corporations
The institution of marriage has become another big business with the justice system making huge money, mostly from divorce.
There's also the outright disrespect for the constitution in the US, with the federal government taking most of the powers constitutionally allocated to state governments, hence Big Boi's verse which I think alludes to how federal agents still target medical marijuana users and dispensaries in states where it is legal, such as California.
On a lighter note I really love the "Don't everybody like the taste of apple pie/smell of gasolene" lines - they can either be interpreted as sarcastic rhetorical questions or defiant statements of outspokenness/alienation