The original version played live at the Mumia Abu-Jamal benefit in 1999 and had the lyric in the chorus: "From the field, to the factory - mic check, ha ha ha!"
The song is sometimes called "Mic Check (Once Hunting, Now Hunted)" referring to the police who were once "Hunting from 9-to-5, through factory lines" and are now hunted on "This modern day auction block."
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