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