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, again Who stole the soul from black Same man stole the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the crackle on our back slow And us go through the back door And black bodies on the slave blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on 'em we shots our own to lay in a box Black mothers' stay in a knot We kill each other, it's part of the I the hating will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know Black Lives Matter, and they matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass Instead of educate, they'd convict the kids As dirty as the water in Flint, the is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova making more Serena It took Viola to say this 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 foods; I don't believe the news Or radio, we refuse in the cycle to spin We write our own story, black again
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel that important And a man can't get together until He knows who he is and be proud of and who he is And where he come from, and where he come
Hot damn, black America Think of Sandra as I'm staring in the wind The color of my skin, comparing it to sin The it gets, the less fairer it has been 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? or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? Endangered in our own Them guns and dope, man, y'all can have it As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want your back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we need You what pressure do, it make the pipes bust From to prison, y'all, they tryna pipe us Tell your political invite us of making voting 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, then we'll believe you See black people in the We shipped here to rob and shoot ya We hold truths to be self-evident All men and women are equal Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of problems that got is a person feel that they're somebody And a man can't get together until he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and he come from, and where he come from