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Yo, you believe when say we ain't shit, we can't grow? All we are is dope dealers and and hoes? And you believe they be tellin' you lie, all on the media? They make the world look to keep you inside?
Why you when the teachers at school? Know you a young single out strugglin', they think you a fool Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in classes shorty future, I wonder how do we last it
Underground in they casket? turnin' I'm learnin' every day, there is no Lazareth Words like God is Greek or So, if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the
My niggaz is chillin', high, relaxin' Envisionin', shit, yo, it can happen What do we Not enough land, not enough homes Not enough banks, to a brother a loan
do we own? The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, then they hit us tax And if we live to be old, what about now? So, stop bein' controlled, we black
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin' (Black zombies) We just cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, the system (Black zombies)
Aiyo, we trapped in our own brain, fuck bars We've gone insane They've already up, cut our own heads offs Stab our own backs and dream too
Without fulfillin' reality, too and Can't have one or two chains, we need of dem Can't have one or two without squeezin' 'em On our own people and fuck black
whites ain't got none leadin' them, the rhythm is cosmic Nas is divinity, the deity's All get and get up Victims walkin' 'round down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Ghost in church Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody it first We begged, we prayed, petitioned and to make another generation, black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We just copy cat, the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, the system (Black zombies)
You scared to be yourself you in a trance Feel free, hear the and dance If you cared what they think, why wear they wear, just for you niggaz with long beards like they Arabs or Jews
Or Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-rahman Al-raheem Islam's a thing And and Rastafari, helps us to bring Peace the darkness, which is un-Godly
So, what's the black man's true religion, who we follow? Use own intuition, you are tomorrow That's the sound of the beast, I'm a record slave, so get paid your own destiny, you are a genius Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a black
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Wake up, black in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years Ghetto won't have it no mo', can I get a witness? Why to somebody else tell you how to do it? you can do it yourself? It's all in you, do it, do it Do it