Tell me it means To be black, tell me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, man Should I be a chain and gold black man Or a Martin Luther had a dream black man, a dream black man You really practice what you preach, black man How you gonna about peace, black man When I got death threats on my I am not the enemy, man So who the first straw Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker yell out World Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a brother to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, you're at it, take a couple with you And that don't the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their It's time to boycott We need less rappers and more We need ballers and more prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I never went to I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I for Detroit and I pray for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American Like I ain't grow up black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, and heroin
They really know, black man They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta strip club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we been taught, so all we show Just a nigga from Decatur, white as all our Even the days of dark, still we all got hope So what's the We don't control shit, we don't own shit in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Columbus ain't the only one founder They don't niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Ray from a different timezone I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well shove it up your ass with a I'm tryna paint the picture You looking for the enemy, then stare into the I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
They really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, don't really They don't really know, black man, man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they don't They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, don't really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
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I'm not against the whole movement Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but like We gotta stop saying the same thing and do something different All energy that we're putting into protesting We put it into our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it your community our own businesses So we don't have to all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, just stop Don't just after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it