Here we go, here, here we go never get to be an older man Black children, childhood stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who stole the soul from 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 in a knot We each other, it's part of the plot I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know Black Lives Matter, and they matter to us These are the we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass Instead of educate, they'd rather convict the As as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say The roles of the 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 I don't believe the news Or radio, we refuse in the cycle to spin We write our own story, black America
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel that they're And a man can't get himself together He knows who he is and be of what and who he is And where he 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 darker it gets, the fairer it has been The hate the hate made, I inherited from But I gon' point the finger We got anointed singers, Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear songs sometimes 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 matter of fact, we lab rats You build the projects for, now you your hood back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we need You know pressure do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, tryna pipe us Tell your parties invite us Instead of 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 people in the future We wasn't here to rob and shoot 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 a lot of problems that we've got is Lettin' a person that they're somebody And a man can't get himself until he knows who he is, And be proud of and who he is and where he come from, and where he come from