Here we go, here, here we go 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 from Chief Smoke And the whip crackle on our back slow And made us go the back door And raffle black on the slave blocks 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, it's part of the I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and they to us These are the things we discuss The new plantation, incarceration Instead of educate, they'd convict the kids As as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Sharapova making more than Serena It took Viola to say this The of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Bookers The salt of the Earth to get us off of And greasy foods; I believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the cycle to We write our own story, black America
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is a person feel that they're important And a man get himself together until He knows who he is and be proud of 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 fairer it has The hate the made, I inherited from them But I ain't point the finger We got anointed singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, to hear them songs sometimes to believe me Who me: Lincoln or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed we travel at? in our own habitat Them guns and dope, man, can have it back As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want hood back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we need You know what do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, they tryna us Tell your parties invite us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you we from a family of fighters in your wars 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 shipped here to rob and shoot ya We hold these to be self-evident All men and are created equal Including Americans
You know, you know, you know, One way of a lot of problems that we've got is Lettin' a person feel that somebody And a man get himself 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