Here we go, here, we go again Trayvon'll never get to be an man Black children, they childhood stole from Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who stole the soul black folk? Same man that stole the land from Chief Smoke And the whip crackle on our back slow And made us go the back door And raffle bodies on the slave blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on 'em we shots our own to lay in a box Black stomachs stay in a knot We kill each other, part of the plot I wish the hating will (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and they to us These are the we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass Instead of educate, rather convict the kids As dirty as the in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a Maria Sharapova more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say The of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers The salt of the Earth to get us off of And greasy foods; I don't the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the to spin We write our own story, black America
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a feel that they're important And a man can't get himself until He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And where he come from, and where he come
Hot damn, America again Think of Sandra Bland as I'm in the wind The color of my skin, comparing it to sin The it gets, the less fairer it has been The hate the made, I inherited from them But I ain't gon' the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to them songs sometimes to believe me Who me: Lincoln or Cadillac? or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? Endangered in our own guns and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want your back I guess if you rap, you would express it too PTSD, we need professionals You know what pressure do, it make the pipes From to prison, y'all, they tryna pipe us your political parties invite us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you know we a family of fighters in your wars and our wars You put a nigga in Star Wars, you need two And then, maybe then we'll you See black in the future We wasn't shipped here to rob and ya We hold these truths to be All men and women are created Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of problems we've got is Lettin' a person feel that somebody And a man can't get himself together he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and he come from