Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me what it Who I vote for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you can't be a man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a chain and gold black man Or a Luther King had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna talk about peace, man When I got threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out Star Can't nobody touch a nigga But it's cool for a brother just to bust a sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets time to boycott shit We need less rappers and more We need less ballers and prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never went to I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new wouldn't even exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African Like I ain't grow up being in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a another strip club, throw my income 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, still we all got So what's the We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but voting, that's power Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher Columbus ain't the only one They don't mention niggas was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong shove it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You looking for the enemy, then into the mirror I I'm trying to paint a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
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I'm not even the whole movement Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put that energy into And our community And not so much into complaining about how been done wrong And, and we have done wrong, but it's like We gotta just saying the same thing and do something different All this that we're putting into protesting We put it into our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it your community our own businesses So we don't to support all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't just Don't just stop this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it