Here we go, here, we go again Trayvon'll get to be an older man children, they childhood stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole Who stole the soul black folk? Same man that stole the land from Chief Smoke And made the whip crackle on our slow 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 each other, part of the plot I wish the hating will stop (war!) and the battle us I know that Black Lives Matter, and they to us These are the things we gotta The new plantation, incarceration 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 took Davis to say this The roles of the help and the is really all they gave us We Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory Bookers The salt of the to get us off of sugar And greasy I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we Brainwashed in the cycle to We write our own story, black America
You know, one way of a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a person feel that they're important And a man can't get together until He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And where he come from, and he come from
Hot damn, black again Think of Bland as I'm staring in the wind The color of my skin, comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the less fairer it has The hate the hate made, I inherited them But I ain't gon' the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie to hear them songs sometimes to believe me Who freed me: Lincoln or Drinkin' or raps? Or is it Godspeed that we travel at? in our own habitat Them guns and dope, man, y'all can 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 pipe us Tell your political parties us Instead of voting laws to spite us You know, you know we from a family of Fought in your wars and our You put a nigga in Star Wars, maybe you two And then, maybe then believe you See black people in the We wasn't shipped to rob and shoot ya We hold these 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 that 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 and who he is and where he come from, and where he come from