Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me it means Who I vote for, who am I to be car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you can't be a man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black man Should I be a and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna talk about peace, man When I got death on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who caused the first 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna out World Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga Guns in every hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, you're at it, take a couple with you And don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets time to boycott shit We need rappers and more doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I hate to be the of bad news But all of this double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I pray for I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American Like I ain't up being black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, throw my Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show Just a from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, we all got hope So what's the We don't control shit, cause we don't own in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Christopher Columbus ain't the only one They don't niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Ray from a different timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You looking for the enemy, then into the mirror I said I'm to paint a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even against the whole I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that into ourselves And our community And not so much complaining about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We gotta just saying the same thing and do something different All this energy that we're into protesting We should put it into our Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into your Start our own So we don't have to support all these other Feed the, fuck, feed the homeless all Do all year, don't just stop Don't just stop this case is over Don't stop after this topic, keep it going