- When you over in American Samoa, what¦what
surprised you the most? - I guess what hit me the
most is 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 surround the
whole factory and, and dormitory compound. The
gate has a has a guard shack, where the guard sit
there and control the worker movement in and out
of the.. of the factory - The factory are made of
ahm.. tin panels with tin roof. Its really hot.
The temperature over there is verily ninety
degrees and inside the factory or the dormitory it
reaches way over a hundred degrees.

Verse 1: Yeah Its the contemporary form of
slavery, they call it slave labour But they don't
prosecute them cuz it's how they make paper When
you rocking that fly shit thats made in China By
an eight year old child tryna 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
its sex discrimination in the labour force The
slave master only let them speak in sign language
And they're 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 right
laws lose sense of power What did four hundred
years in the grave passes? Only the improved
cleverness of slave masters.

Chorus: Is life worth living if you living in
hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoners
cell? And the lies they devise in the system that
fail But I expect the system to fail! Is life
worth living if you living in hell? When the mind
is confined to a prisoners cell? And the lies they
devise in the system that fail But I expect the
system to fail!

- 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
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salary increase or even to fall in love or get
married.

Verse 2: Its one point six million people locked
in jail They do new slave labour force trapped in
hell They generate over a billion dollars worth to
power And only getting paid twenty cents an hour
They make cloths for McDonalds and for Apple Bees
And working fourteen hour shifts in prison
factories And while we sit around debating who the
wack emcee is They have to work when arthritic
pain attack the knees Slavery is not illegal,
thats a fucking lie! It is illegal, unless its 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 aint
nobody there to protect ya Except a bunch of
incompetent human rights inspectors

Chorus: Is life worth living if you living in
hell? When the mind is confined to a prisoners
cell? And the lies they devise in the system that
fail But I expect the system to fail! Is life
worth living if you living in hell? When the mind
is confined to a prisoners cell? And the lies they
devise in the system that fail But I expect the
system to fail!

- The sweatshop situation's kind of cohesive and
kind of take advantage on 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. - When I told them I was
pregnant, they told me to have an abortion.. - Tu
Xiao Mei says she refused to have the abortion and
has now been barred from entering the factory. -
To allow them to bring that on to US soil is a
very deep concern. We've now documented the facts
that management coerces female workers who become
pregnant into having abortions. - But human rights
workers say it's common practice - Inside that
factory Chinese law applies, and Chinese law is...
is supreme - Even though it's the United States of
America? - The flag doesn't fly inside there.