These color will make you break you make you choose a side These color lines these color lines been since jump I write these lines 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 kids bent on supermanning that hoe soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops pretending you're black enough and rapping with the lights off it's like a with one closed eye you can me that you're winking, but the grin won't lie and no mouth supplies, what skin tone hides a thousand miles south as the jim crow flies And then we're playing he she said I see red when i peep a cheeked boston meathead I go Bruce Lee When I see him on the T taking up two and say, "excuse me, but would you if hell froze?" you know the is the underground railroad lynch trees have the white limbs check out my arms, I just 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 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 there looking all innocent, take a when I give and inch And how you getting rich, is it a or is it ignorance? You don't your own privilege You own riches and know what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you even think Hip hop, black culture and fitted you pickin out in the street, I don't think so bro My people ain't your black history show So stop what you doing we won't it anymore Before you come in my house wipe ya at the door
3 I see the lines It's tough that Every other a bother rhymes white mothers of gutter crimes We keep our standard We kick lower rhymes other times it undermines the fact the mine are minds All you do is get past the guilt We living in a house that master built If you understand that, your people what you know Because one of em got enough to pay back what you owe Yes, My great had land, had slaves I guess I pressed this record off the he made But I want independance, the declaration but one ass white boy can't pay for reparations I'm running out of while 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 created it and paved the way for So that you're it Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll devil's advocate A lot of music has white dollars backing it (Kweli's got it on lock) Rupert Murdoch Rawkus You looking for the keys, then you better check the I'll be checking all right As as it gets dark and all night get my money we can all fight You taking out the and the mighty and kids You say kill I say i live? You're not militant us diligent Grab my fam, and grandma and light us up like a I thought we were cool now I'm this to giving in just put a bullet in for each missed dose of