Tell me what it To be black, someone me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you can't be a man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, man Should I be a chain and gold black 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 I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who the first straw hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else touch a But it's cool for a brother just to a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen 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 black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's to boycott shit We need less and more doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college 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 black wouldn't exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I pray for Port Au and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better American Like I ain't grow up being black in I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and heroin
They really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
They don't really know, ugh, they don't They don't know, black man, black man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, throw my Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we been taught, so 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 ain't And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't niggas that was on the Mayflower 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 a pinecone I'm paint the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, then stare into the I said I'm trying to a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
don't really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they don't They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
They really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
They don't really know, ugh, they really know, ugh
I'm not even against the whole 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 been done And, and we have been done wrong, but it's We stop just saying the same thing and do something different All energy that we're putting into protesting We should put it 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 Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, just stop Don't just stop after this is over Don't stop after this topic, keep it going