Here we go, here, here we go never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood stole from Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who stole the from black folk? Same man that stole the land from Chief Black And the whip crackle on our back slow And made us go through the back 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 of the plot I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Lives Matter, and they matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As dirty as the in Flint, the system is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Sharapova making more than Serena It Viola Davis to say this The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all they us We Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers The salt of the to get us off of sugar And foods; I don't believe the news Or radio, we refuse in the cycle 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 that they're important And a man get himself together until He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And where he come from, and he come from
Hot damn, black again Think of Sandra Bland as I'm in the wind The color of my skin, comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the less fairer it has The hate the hate made, I from them But I ain't gon' the finger We got anointed singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Need to hear them songs sometimes to me Who freed me: or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed that we at? Endangered in our own guns and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want your back I if you could rap, you would express it too That PTSD, we professionals You know what pressure do, it make the pipes From schools to prison, y'all, tryna pipe us Tell political parties invite us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your and our wars You put a in Star Wars, maybe you need two And then, then we'll believe you See black in the future We wasn't shipped here to rob and ya We hold these truths to be All men and are created equal black Americans
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of problems we've got is Lettin' a person feel that they're 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 come from