Here we go, here, here we go Trayvon'll 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 stole the 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' stomachs in a knot We kill each other, part of the plot I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the with us I know that Lives Matter, and they matter to us These are the things we gotta The new plantation, mass of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova more than Serena It took Viola to say this The of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory The salt of the to get us off of sugar And greasy foods; I believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the cycle to 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 they're 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 where he come
Hot damn, black again Think of Sandra Bland as I'm in the wind The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the less it has been The hate the hate made, I inherited from But I gon' point the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to them songs sometimes to believe me Who freed me: Lincoln or Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed that we at? in our own habitat Them guns and dope, man, y'all can have it As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the for, now you want your hood back I guess if you rap, you would express it too PTSD, we need professionals You know pressure do, it make the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, tryna pipe us your political parties invite us Instead of making laws to spite us You know, you know we a family of fighters in your wars and our wars You put a nigga in Star Wars, you need two And then, maybe then believe you See black in the future We shipped here to rob and shoot ya We hold these truths to be All men and women are equal Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of a lot of problems that we've got is Lettin' a feel that they're somebody And a man can't get himself until he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and he come from