Here we go, here, here we go Trayvon'll never get to be an man Black children, they childhood stole from Robbed of our and our language, stole again Who the soul from black folk? Same man that stole the land from Chief Black And made the crackle on our back slow And made us go through the door And raffle 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 each other, part of the plot I the hating will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Black Lives Matter, and matter to us These are the things we discuss The new plantation, incarceration Instead of educate, rather convict the kids As dirty as the water in Flint, the is Is it a or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova making more Serena It took Viola to say this The roles of the help and the 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 write our own story, black America
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel that important And a man can't get himself together 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 of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the fairer it has been The hate the hate made, I inherited them But I gon' point the finger We got anointed singers, Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them songs sometimes to me Who freed me: or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle Or is it Godspeed 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 your hood back I if you could rap, you would express it too PTSD, we need professionals You know what pressure do, it make the pipes From schools to prison, y'all, they tryna us Tell your political parties us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you we from a family of fighters Fought in your and our wars You put a nigga in Star Wars, you need two And then, then we'll believe 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 women are created black Americans
You know, you know, you know, One way of solving a lot of problems we've got is Lettin' a person feel they're somebody And a man can't get himself together until he who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and he come from, and where he come from