These color lines make you break you make you choose a side These color lines these color lines here since jump I write these color cause if I don't I'll lose my mind I write color lines these color lines
1 (George) your first rap show in the back row of a sea of white 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 cyclops one closed eye you can tell me that you're winking, but the won't lie and no mouth supplies, your skin tone hides about a thousand south as the jim crow flies And then playing he said 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 is the underground railroad lynch trees have the same white out my arms, I look just like him
2 (Catch) Let's you and I get one thing The never been equal, ain't no food on my plate I gave birth to this and you just took it and co opted it and and packaged it and give me half of it Peep how I this and break down how you took it all Raped the culture and you standing looking all innocent, take a mile when I and inch And how you getting rich, is it a or is it You don't know your own privilege You own riches and don't know what is You got a lot to learn before you even about Hip hop, culture and which fitted you pickin out nigger in the street, I don't so bro My people ain't supportin your black history So stop what you doing we won't take it Before you come in my house ya feet at the door
3 I see the lines It's tough that other time a bother rhymes white think of gutter crimes We keep our higher We kick lower rhymes times it undermines the fact the mine are over minds All you do is get past the guilt We ain't in a house that master built If you understand that, tell people what you know Because one of em got enough money to pay back you owe Yes, My grands had land, had slaves I guess I pressed this record off the he made But I want independance, past the but one down ass boy can't 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 swear it If you love hip hop it That includes the who created it and paved the way for this So that you're it Well if you're talking on who's making it, I'll devil's advocate A lot of black music has 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 pockets all right As soon as it dark and all night I'ma get my money we can all You taking out the and the mighty and kids You say whitey I say call i You're not militant us diligent Grab my fam, and grandma and light us up a filament I thought we were cool now I'm this to giving in just put a bullet in for each missed dose of