Tell me what it To be black, someone 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 can't be a man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black 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 gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna talk about peace, man I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out Star Can't nobody touch a nigga But it's cool for a brother just to a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a 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 less rappers and more doctrines We need less ballers and prophets We more unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double standard thinking is If hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I pray for I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better American Like I grow up being black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show Just a from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We don't shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not for Obama, but locally voting, that's power Rome built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Christopher Columbus the only one founder They mention niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, blown Bobby Ray from a timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass 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 bigger You for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've been done And, and we have been done wrong, but it's We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do different All this that we're putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your community Start our own So we don't to support all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, just stop Don't just stop this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it