Tell me it means To be black, someone me what it means Who I vote for, who am I to be car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you really hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black man I be a chain and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a black man You really practice what you preach, black man How you gonna talk peace, black man When I got threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who caused the first 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody touch a nigga 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 at it, take a couple with you And don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, pockets It's time to shit We need less rappers and doctrines We need less and more prophets We more unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I for Detroit and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au 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 I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we been taught, so all we show a nigga from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, we all got hope So what's the We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher Columbus ain't the one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray a different timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You looking for the enemy, stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, 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 energy into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've done wrong And, and we have done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do different All energy that we're putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it your community our own businesses So we don't to support all these other businesses the, fuck, feed the homeless all year Do this all year, just stop Don't just after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, it going