Tell me what it To be black, tell me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be What car I drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you 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 black man, a black man You really practice what you preach, black man How you talk about peace, black man When I got 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 get to fighting You be the first mother wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else touch a But it's cool for a brother just to bust a 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 just on some mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's to boycott shit We need rappers and more doctrines We need less and more prophets We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I never went to I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double standard is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new wouldn't even exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I pray for I pray for Port Au Prince and I 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 up around crack, AIDS and heroin
They don't know, black man They don't know, ugh, they don't really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they don't They don't really know, black man, man, black man
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They don't really know, ugh, they really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh a swisher, roll a cigar Hitta another strip club, throw my 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 though the days of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We don't control shit, cause we don't own in our own hoods, we ain't 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 ain't the only one They don't mention niggas that was on the Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray from a different I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass with a I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man
They don't really know, man They don't really know, ugh, don't really They really know, black man, black man, black man
don't really know, ugh, they don't really They really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
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I'm not against the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And into our 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 thing and do something All this energy that putting into protesting We put it into our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it into community our own businesses So we don't have to support all these businesses the, fuck, feed the homeless all year Do this all year, just stop just stop after this case is over Don't just stop after topic, keep it going