Here we go, here, we go again Trayvon'll never get to be an man Black children, they stole from them of our names and our language, stole again Who stole the from black folk? Same man that stole the land from Chief Smoke And made the crackle on our back slow And made us go through the back And raffle black on the slave blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on 'em we shots our own to lay in a box Black stomachs stay in a knot We kill other, it's 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 making more Serena It took Davis 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 to get us off of sugar And greasy foods; I don't believe the Or radio, we refuse in the cycle to spin We our own story, black America again
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person that 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 from
Hot damn, black America Think of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the fairer it has been The hate the hate made, I from them But I ain't point the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them songs to believe me Who freed me: or Cadillac? or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? Endangered in our own Them and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want hood back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we need You know what pressure do, it the pipes bust From to prison, y'all, they tryna pipe us Tell your parties invite us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your wars and our You put a nigga in Star Wars, maybe you two And then, maybe then we'll you See black people in the We wasn't here 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 that got is a person feel that they're somebody And a man get himself 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