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1 (George) your first rap show posted in the row of a sea of white kids bent on that hoe pretty you're buying fitted hats and high tops pretending that black enough and rapping with the lights off like a cyclops with one closed eye you can tell me that you're winking, but the grin lie and no supplies, what your skin tone hides about a thousand miles south as the jim crow And then we're playing he she said I see red when i peep a pink boston meathead I go Bruce Lee I see him on the T taking up two seats and say, "excuse me, but would you if hell froze?" you know the subway is the railroad lynch trees have the same limbs check out my arms, I look like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one thing The game never been equal, no food on my plate I birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and profited and packaged it and wouldn't give me of it Peep how I master and break down how you took it all Raped the and you standing there looking all innocent, take a mile I give and inch And how you rich, is it a coincidence? or is it ignorance? You don't know own privilege You own riches and don't know what 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 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 other time a bother rhymes white mothers think of gutter We keep our higher We don't lower rhymes other times it the fact the mine are over minds All you gotta do is get the guilt We ain't in a house that master built If you understand that, tell your what you know Because one of em got enough money to pay what 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 down ass white boy 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 just want to sit on my porch, a forty and spit two, cause You can smell bullshit I love hip hop pinky that's it If you hip hop respect it That the people who created it and paved the way for this So that making it Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll play advocate A lot of black music has white dollars it (Kweli's got it on lock) Rupert Murdoch funded You for the keys, then you better check the pockets I'll be checking pockets all As soon as it gets and all night I'ma get my we can all fight You taking out the high and the and their You say whitey I say i live? not black militant killing us my fam, and grandma and light us up like a filament I thought we cool now I'm this close to giving in just put a bullet in for each missed dose of