These color lines will make you break you you choose a side color lines these color lines been here since jump I write these color lines cause if I don't lose my mind I these color lines these color lines
1 (George) your first rap show in the back row of a sea of white kids on supermanning that hoe pretty soon buying fitted hats and high tops pretending that you're black enough and rapping with the off it's like a cyclops one closed eye you can me that you're winking, but the grin won't lie and no mouth supplies, what your tone hides about a thousand miles south as the jim flies And we're playing he said she said I see red i peep a pink cheeked boston meathead I go Bruce Lee When I see him on the T up two seats and say, "excuse me, but would you if hell froze?" you know the subway is the underground lynch trees have the white limbs check out my arms, I just like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one straight The game been equal, ain't no food on my plate I gave birth to and you just took it and co opted it and profited and packaged it and wouldn't me half of it Peep how I master and break down how you took it all Raped the culture and you standing looking all innocent, take a mile when I and inch And how you getting rich, is it a or is it ignorance? You don't your own privilege You own riches and don't what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you even about Hip hop, culture and which fitted you pickin out nigger in the street, I think so bro My people ain't supportin your history show So stop what you doing we won't take it Before you come in my house wipe ya at the door
3 I see the color It's tough that other time a bother rhymes white mothers think of gutter We keep our higher We kick lower rhymes other it undermines the fact the mine are over minds All you do is get past the guilt We ain't living in a house that built If you understand that, tell your people what you Because one of em got enough money to pay back you owe Yes, My great had land, had slaves I guess I pressed record off the bank he made But I independance, past the declaration but one ass white boy can't pay for reparations I'm running out of patience you do the work of Satan Like an impulse. Edu Leedz Black an insult Number one. I'm not. trying. to tell. your. I just want to sit on my porch, a forty and spit Number two, cause You can smell I love hip hop swear that's it If you hip hop respect it That includes the people who it and paved the way for this So that making it Well if you're talking on who's it, I'll play devil's advocate A lot of music has white dollars backing it (Kweli's got it on lock) Rupert Murdoch funded You looking for the keys, then you better check the I'll be pockets all right As soon as it gets dark and all I'ma get my money we can all You taking out the and the mighty and kids You say kill I say call i not black militant killing us Grab my fam, and grandma and us up like a filament I thought we were cool now I'm this close to in just put a bullet in for each missed dose of