Here we go, here, here we go never get to be an older man Black children, childhood stole from them Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who stole the soul from folk? man that stole the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the whip crackle on our back And us go through 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 mothers' stomachs in a knot We kill each other, it's part of the I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I that Black Lives Matter, and they matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, incarceration Instead of educate, rather convict the kids As dirty as the in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a Sharapova making more than Serena It took Viola to say this The roles of the 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 I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the to spin We write our own story, America again
You know, one way of a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel that they're important And a man can't get himself together He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And where he from, and where he come from
Hot damn, America again of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind The color of my skin, they it to sin The darker it gets, the less fairer it has The hate the hate made, I inherited them But I ain't gon' point the We got anointed singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Need to hear songs sometimes to believe me Who freed me: Lincoln or 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 lab rats You build the projects for, now you want hood back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we professionals You know what do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, they tryna us your political parties 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 Star Wars, maybe you two And then, then we'll believe you See people in the future We shipped here to rob and shoot ya We hold these truths to be All men and are created equal Including 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 of what and who he is and where he come from, and where he come from