These lines will make you break you make you choose a side These color lines these color lines been here since I write these color lines cause if I don't I'll my mind I write these color lines these color
1 (George) your rap show posted in the back row of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning hoe pretty you're buying fitted hats and high tops pretending that you're black and rapping with the lights off it's like a 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 south as the jim crow flies And then we're playing he said she 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 you move if hell froze?" you know the subway is the underground trees have the same white limbs check out my arms, I look like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one thing The game never equal, ain't no food on my plate I gave birth to this and you just took it and co it and profited and it and wouldn't give me half of it Peep how I master this and break how you took it all Raped the culture and you there 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 know what is You got a lot to learn before you think about Hip hop, black culture and which fitted you out in the street, I don't think so bro My people ain't supportin your black history So stop what you doing we take it anymore you come in my house wipe ya feet at the door
3 I see the lines It's tough that Every other time a bother white mothers think of crimes We our standard higher We don't kick 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 that master built If you understand that, tell people what you know Because one of em got money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great had land, had slaves I guess I pressed this record off the bank he But I independance, past the declaration but one down ass 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, You can smell bullshit I just hip hop swear that's it If you hip hop respect it That the people who created it and paved the way for this So you're making 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 Rawkus You for the keys, then you better check the pockets I'll be checking all right As as it gets dark and all night get my money we can all fight You out the high and the mighty and their You say kill I say call i You're not black killing us Grab my fam, and grandma and light us up like a I thought we were cool now I'm this to giving in put a bullet in for each missed dose of Ritalin