Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me what it Who I vote for, who am I to be car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a chain and gold teeth man Or a Martin King had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna talk peace, black man When I got death threats on my I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first mother fucker yell out World Star Can't nobody else touch a But it's for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple 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 doctrines We need less ballers and prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I never went to I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double standard is taboo If hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I for Port 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 being black in Like I grow up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, still we all got So what's the We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we ain't And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power Rome wasn't built in just an Can you hear me, do I need to speak Christopher ain't the only one founder don't mention niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up ass with a pinecone I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even against the movement Like I'm not hating on it It's just, if we put that into ourselves And into our And not so much into complaining about how been done wrong And, and we have done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this energy that we're into protesting We put it into our community Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into your our own businesses So we don't have to support all these businesses the, fuck, feed the homeless all year Do all year, don't just stop Don't just stop after this case is Don't just stop after this topic, it going