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