Here we go, here, here we go never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood from them Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who stole the soul black folk? Same man that the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the whip crackle on our back And made us go through the back And raffle black bodies on the 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 of the plot I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the with us I know that Black 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 felony or a Sharapova making more than Serena It Viola Davis to say this The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all gave us We Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers The of the Earth to get us off of sugar And greasy foods; I 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 a person feel that they're 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 from
Hot damn, America again Think of Sandra Bland as I'm in the wind The color of my skin, comparing it to sin The it gets, the less fairer it has been The hate the made, I inherited from them But I ain't gon' the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie to hear them 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 and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we lab rats You build the for, now you want your hood back I guess if you could rap, you would it too That PTSD, we professionals You what pressure do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, tryna pipe us Tell your political invite us Instead of making voting to spite us You know, you know we a family of fighters in your wars and our wars You put a nigga in Wars, maybe you need two And then, maybe then believe you See black people in the We wasn't here to rob and shoot ya We hold these truths to be All men and women are created black 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 himself together until he who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and where he from