Tell me it means To be black, someone tell me 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 really hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream man, a dream black man You gotta practice what you preach, black 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 straw Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Can't nobody else touch a But cool for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll slay a niggas Gon' kill yourself, you're at it, take 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 where it hurts, pockets It's time to boycott We need rappers and more doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never went to I hate to be the 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 pray for the truth and I pray for I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African Like I grow up being black in America Like I ain't grow up 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 club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga from Decatur, 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 wasn't built in just an Can you me, do I need to speak louder Christopher ain't the only one founder don't 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 ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the bigger You for the enemy, then stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to a bigger picture You for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man
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They don't really know, ugh, they don't They really know, black man, black man, black man
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I'm not even the whole movement Like I'm not hating on it just, if we put that energy into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've done wrong And, and we been done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same and do something different All this energy that we're putting protesting We put it into our community Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your community our own businesses So we don't have to support all these businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't just stop after this case is Don't just stop after this topic, it going