Tell me it means To be black, tell 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 proper when I speak, 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 practice what you preach, black 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 Everybody hurt, who caused the scar 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't else touch a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, a couple with you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm on some black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's to boycott shit We need less rappers and doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never went to 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 for the sorrow I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I pray for I pray for Port Au Prince and I pray for New let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I grow up being black in America Like I ain't up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I guess it's all we is all we been 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 don't control shit, cause we own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray a different timezone I to speak 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, stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even against the movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that energy into And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've 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 our community Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into community our own businesses 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 after this case is Don't stop after this topic, keep it going