These color lines make you break you make you choose a side These color lines these color lines been since jump I write these color cause if I don't I'll lose my mind I write these color lines these lines
1 (George) your first rap show posted in the row of a sea of white kids on supermanning that hoe pretty soon you're buying fitted hats and high pretending that you're black and rapping with the lights 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 skin tone hides about a thousand south as the jim crow flies And then we're playing he she said I see red when i peep a pink boston meathead I go Bruce Lee When I see him on the T up two seats and say, "excuse me, but you move if hell froze?" you know the is the underground railroad lynch have the same white limbs check out my arms, I just like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one straight The game never been equal, ain't no on my plate I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and and packaged it and wouldn't give me of it how I master this and break down how you took it all Raped the culture and you standing looking all innocent, take a mile I give and inch And how you getting rich, is it a or is it ignorance? You don't know own privilege You own riches and don't what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you think about Hip hop, black culture and fitted you pickin out in the street, I don't think so bro My people supportin your black history show So stop what you doing we won't it anymore Before you in my house wipe ya feet at the door
3 I see the lines It's tough that Every other time a bother white think of gutter crimes We our standard higher We don't kick lower times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds All you gotta do is get past the We ain't living in a that master built If you understand that, your people what you know one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great grands had land, had I I pressed this record off the bank he made But I want independance, past the but one down ass boy can't pay for reparations I'm running out of patience while you do the work of Like an impulse. Edu Leedz Black history's an Number one. I'm not. trying. to tell. your. I want to sit on my porch, drink a forty and spit Number two, cause You can smell I just hip hop pinky that's it If you love hip hop it That the people who created it and paved the way for this So that you're it Well if talking on who's making 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 the pockets I'll be checking all right As as it gets dark and all night I'ma get my we can all fight You out the high and the mighty and kids You say kill I say i live? not black militant killing us Grab my fam, and and light us up like a filament I thought we were cool now I'm this to giving in just put a bullet in for missed dose of Ritalin