Here we go, here, we go again Trayvon'll never get to be an man Black children, they stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who the soul from black folk? Same man that stole the from Chief Black Smoke And made the whip on our back slow And made us go 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' stay in a knot We kill other, it's part of the plot I wish the hating stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass Instead of educate, they'd rather convict the As dirty as the water in Flint, the is Is it a felony or a Maria making more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all they us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory 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 cycle to We write our own story, America 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 get himself together until He knows who he is and be of what and who he is And where he come from, and where he come
Hot damn, black America 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 from them But I gon' point the finger We got anointed singers, Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie to hear them songs sometimes to believe me Who freed me: Lincoln or Drinkin' or battle Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? Endangered in our own Them and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a of fact, we them lab rats You build the projects for, now you want hood back I guess if you rap, you would express it too PTSD, we need professionals You know what pressure do, it make the pipes From schools to prison, y'all, they tryna us Tell your political invite us Instead of making laws to spite us You know, you know we a family of fighters Fought in your wars and our You put a in Star Wars, maybe you need two And then, maybe then believe you See black people in the We wasn't shipped here to rob and ya We these truths to be self-evident All men and are created equal Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of that we've got is Lettin' a person feel that they're And a man can't get himself together he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and he come from