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 lose my I write these color lines these lines
1 (George) your first rap show posted in the row of a sea of white kids bent on supermanning hoe soon you're buying fitted hats and high tops pretending that 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, 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 cheeked meathead I go Bruce Lee When I see him on the T taking up two and say, "excuse me, but you move if hell froze?" you know the subway is the railroad lynch trees have the same white 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 and you just took it and co opted it and profited and packaged it and wouldn't me half of it Peep how I master this and 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 know your own privilege You own and don't know what homeless is You got a lot to learn before you think about Hip hop, black culture and which fitted you out nigger in the street, I don't so bro My people ain't supportin 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 time a rhymes white mothers think of gutter We keep our standard We don't kick lower other times it undermines the the mine are over minds All you gotta do is get the guilt We living in a house that master built If you understand that, tell your people what you one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great had land, had slaves I guess I pressed record off the bank he made But I want independance, the declaration but one down ass white boy pay for reparations I'm running out of while you do the work of Satan 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, drink a and spit Number two, You can smell bullshit I just hip hop pinky swear it If you love hip hop it That includes the people who it and paved the way for this So that making it Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll play devil's A lot of black music has dollars backing it (Kweli's got it on lock) Rupert funded Rawkus You looking for the keys, then you check the pockets I'll be pockets all right As as it gets dark and all night I'ma get my money we can all You taking out the and the mighty and kids You say kill I say i live? not black militant killing us Grab my fam, and grandma and light us up like a I thought we were cool now I'm this close to in just put a bullet in for each dose of Ritalin