Here we go, here, here we go never get to be an older man Black children, they stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who stole the soul from folk? man that stole the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the crackle on our back slow And made us go through the back And raffle black bodies on the blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on 'em we spray our own to lay in a box Black mothers' stomachs stay in a We kill each other, it's of the plot I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and they to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, incarceration of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a Maria making more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say 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 I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the 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 feel they're important And a man can't get himself until He knows who he is and be proud of and who he is And where he from, and where he come from
Hot damn, black again Think of Sandra as I'm staring in the wind The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the less it has been The hate the made, I inherited from them But I gon' point the finger We got anointed singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Need to hear them songs 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 of fact, we them lab rats You the projects 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 to prison, y'all, they tryna pipe us your political parties invite us Instead of making voting to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your and our wars You put a nigga in Star Wars, you need two And then, maybe then we'll you See black in the future We wasn't here to rob and shoot ya We hold truths to be self-evident All men and are created equal Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of that we've got is Lettin' a person feel that somebody And a man can't get himself together he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he from, and where he come from