Here we go, here, we go again never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood stole them Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who stole the soul from black Same man that stole the land Chief Black Smoke And made the whip crackle on our back And made us go 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' stomachs stay in a We kill other, it's part of the plot I wish the hating will (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and they to us These are the things we gotta 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 making more than It Viola Davis to say this The of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers The of the Earth to get us off of sugar And greasy I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the to spin We write our own story, America again
You know, one way of solving a lot of that we got is lettin' 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 come
Hot damn, black again 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 inherited them But I ain't gon' point the We got anointed singers, Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them sometimes to believe me Who freed me: or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it that we travel at? Endangered in our own guns and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we lab rats 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 schools to prison, y'all, they pipe us Tell your parties invite us Instead of making voting to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your wars and our You put a in Star Wars, maybe you need two And then, maybe we'll believe you See black people in the We wasn't shipped to rob and shoot ya We these truths to be self-evident All men and women are created Including 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 can't get together until he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and where he from