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Yo, you believe when they say we shit, we can't grow? All we are is dealers and gangstas and hoes? And you believe they be tellin' you lie, all on the media? They make the look crazy to keep you inside?
Why you when the teachers at school? Know you a young single parent out strugglin', they you a fool Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in classes Killin' shorty future, I wonder how do we it
Underground in they casket? turnin' I'm learnin' every day, there is no Lazareth like God is Greek or Latin So, if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the
My niggaz is chillin', gettin' high, Envisionin', ownin' shit, yo, it can What do we own? Not enough land, not enough Not banks, to give a brother a loan
What do we The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, they hit us with tax And insurance if we live to be old, what about So, bein' controlled, we black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, 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 already insane They've already gave up, cut our own offs Stab our own backs and dream too
Without fulfillin' reality, too and have one or two chains, we need three of dem Can't have one or two without squeezin' 'em On our own people and fuck black
'Cause whites ain't got none leadin' them, the is cosmic Nas is divinity, the prophetless All get and get up Victims walkin' 'round down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Ghost in church to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doin' it first We begged, we prayed, petitioned and Just to make another generation, zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We just cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
You scared to be yourself you in a trance Feel free, the music and dance If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, for you Dumb niggaz long beards like they Arabs or Jews
Or from Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-rahman a beautiful thing And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to against the darkness, which is un-Godly
So, what's the black man's true religion, who should we Use your own intuition, you are That's the of the beast, I'm a Columbia 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 zombie
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we we're livin (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
up, black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years Ghetto niggaz 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