These color lines will make you break you make you choose a color lines these color lines been here 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 posted in the back row of a sea of white kids on supermanning that hoe pretty soon 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 tell me that you're winking, but the won't lie and no mouth supplies, what your tone hides about a thousand miles south as the jim crow And then we're he said she said I see red when i peep a pink cheeked meathead I go Bruce Lee I see him on the T taking up two seats and say, "excuse me, but you move if hell froze?" you know the is the underground railroad trees have the same white limbs check out my arms, I just like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one straight The never been equal, ain't no food on my plate I gave birth to this and you just took it and co it and profited and packaged it and give me half of it Peep how I master this and break how you took it all Raped the culture and you standing there all innocent, take a mile I give and inch And how you rich, is it a coincidence? or is it You don't know your own privilege You own riches and don't what homeless is You got a lot to before you even think about Hip hop, black culture and which fitted you out nigger in the street, I don't so bro My people ain't 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 that Every other time a bother rhymes white mothers think of crimes We keep our standard We kick lower rhymes other times it the fact the mine are over minds All you do is get past the guilt We ain't living in a house that master If you that, tell your people what you know Because one of em got money to pay back what you owe Yes, My great grands had land, had I guess I this record off the bank he made But I want independance, past the but one down ass white boy can't pay for I'm out of patience 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 forty and Number two, cause You can smell I love hip hop swear that's it If you love hip hop it That includes the people who created it and paved the way for So you're making it Well if you're on who's making it, I'll play devil's advocate A lot of black music has white dollars it (Kweli's got it on lock) Rupert Murdoch funded You looking for the keys, then you better the pockets I'll be pockets all right As soon as it gets dark and all get my money we can all fight You taking out the and the mighty and kids You say whitey I say i live? You're not militant us diligent Grab my fam, and and light us up like a filament I thought we were now I'm this close to giving in just put a bullet in for each missed of Ritalin