Here we go, here, we go again never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood from them Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who stole the from black folk? Same man that stole the land Chief Black Smoke And made the whip crackle on our back 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, it's part of the I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the with us I that Black Lives Matter, and they matter to us These are the things we gotta The new plantation, incarceration Instead of educate, they'd rather the kids As dirty as the water in Flint, the is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova making than Serena It took Davis to say this The of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory The salt of the Earth to get us off of And greasy foods; I don't believe the Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the to spin We our own story, black America again
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel they're important And a man can't get together until He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And he come from, and where he come from
Hot damn, black America Think of Bland as I'm staring in the wind The color of my skin, they it to sin The darker it gets, the less it has been The the hate made, I inherited from them But I ain't gon' point the We got anointed singers, Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them songs to believe me Who freed me: or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed we travel at? Endangered in our own Them guns and dope, man, y'all can have it As a of fact, we them lab rats You build the projects for, now you want your back I guess if you could rap, you would it too That PTSD, we professionals You know pressure do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, they pipe us Tell your political parties us of making 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, then we'll believe you See black people in the We wasn't shipped to rob and shoot ya We these truths to be self-evident All men and women are created Including Americans
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of that we've got is Lettin' a person that they're somebody And a man can't get himself together he knows who he is, And be proud of and who he is and where he come from, and where he come from