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1 (George) your first rap posted in the back row of a sea of white bent on supermanning that hoe pretty soon you're buying fitted and high tops pretending that you're black and rapping with the lights off it's a cyclops with one closed eye you can tell me that winking, but the grin won't lie and no supplies, what your skin tone hides about a thousand miles as the jim crow flies And then we're playing he she said I see red i peep a pink cheeked boston meathead I wanna go Lee When I see him on the T up two seats and say, "excuse me, but would you if hell froze?" you know the is the underground railroad lynch trees have the same white out my arms, I look just like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one straight The game never been equal, no food on my plate I gave to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited and it and wouldn't give 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 when I give and inch And how you rich, is it a coincidence? or is it ignorance? You don't your own privilege You own and don't know what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you even think Hip hop, culture and which fitted you pickin out nigger in the street, I don't so bro My ain't supportin your black history show So stop what you doing we won't take it you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door
3 I see the color It's tough that Every other a bother rhymes white mothers think of gutter We keep our standard We don't kick rhymes times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds All you gotta do is get the guilt We ain't living in a house master built If you understand that, tell your people you know Because one of em got money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great grands had land, had I guess I pressed this off the bank he made But I want independance, the declaration but one down ass white boy can't pay for I'm running out of while you do the work of Satan an impulse. Edu Leedz Black history's an insult one. I'm not. trying. to tell. your. story I just to sit on my porch, drink a forty and spit Number two, cause You can bullshit I just hip hop pinky that's it If you hip hop respect it That includes the people who created it and paved the way for So that making it Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll play 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 and all night get my money we can all fight You out the high and the mighty and kids You say kill I say i live? You're not black us diligent Grab my fam, and and light us up like a filament I we were cool now I'm this close to giving in put a bullet in for each missed dose of Ritalin