Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me it means Who I vote for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, where I buy my jeans, black man If you really hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, man Should I be a chain and gold teeth man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a dream man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you talk about peace, black man When I got death threats on my I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, 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 boycott We need less rappers and doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We more unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I went to college I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this standard thinking is taboo If black is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I ain't grow up black in America Like I ain't grow up crack, AIDS and heroin
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They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't know, black man, black man, black man
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don't really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the of dark, still we all got hope So what's the We don't shit, cause we don't own shit in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power wasn't built in just an hour Can you me, do I need to speak louder Columbus ain't the only one founder They mention niggas that was on the Mayflower a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong 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 bigger You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
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They don't really know, ugh, don't really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
don't really know, ugh, they don't really They don't know, black man, black man, black man
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I'm not even against the whole Like I'm not hating on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And into our And not so much complaining about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but like We gotta stop just the same thing and do something different All this energy that we're putting protesting We should put it into our Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into community our own businesses So we don't have to support all these other Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, don't just Don't just stop after case is over Don't just stop this topic, keep it going