Here we go, here, we go again Trayvon'll get to be an older man Black children, they childhood from them Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who stole the soul black folk? Same man stole the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the crackle on our back slow And made us go the back door And raffle black bodies on the slave Now we to the blocks, on 'em we spray shots our own to lay in a box Black stomachs stay in a knot We kill each other, it's part of the I wish the hating will (war!) and the battle with us I know Black Lives Matter, and they matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As dirty as the in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a Maria Sharapova making more than It took Viola Davis to say The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all they us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Bookers The salt of the Earth to get us off of And foods; I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the to spin We write our own story, black again
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems we got is lettin' a person feel that they're important And a man can't get himself until He knows who he is and be of what and who he is And where he come from, and where he from
Hot damn, black America Think of Sandra as I'm staring in the wind The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the less it has been The hate the hate made, I inherited them But I ain't point the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them songs to believe me Who me: Lincoln or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? in our own habitat Them guns and dope, man, can have it back As a matter of fact, we lab rats You build the projects for, now you your hood back I if you could rap, you would express it too That PTSD, we professionals You know what do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, they pipe us Tell your parties invite us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your and our wars You put a nigga in Wars, maybe you need two And then, maybe we'll believe you See black people in the We wasn't shipped here to rob and ya We hold these to be self-evident All men and women are equal Including Americans
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of problems that got is Lettin' a person feel they're somebody And a man can't get together until he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and he come from, and where he come from