Tell me what it To be black, someone me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, where I buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, man Should I be a and gold teeth black man Or a Luther King had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice you preach, black man How you gonna about peace, black man I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna out World Star Can't else touch a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, slay a dozen niggas kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple with you And that justify the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets It's time to shit We need less rappers and more We need ballers and more prophets We more unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I hate to be the of bad news But all of this standard thinking 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 and I pray for Chicago I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a 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 club, throw my income Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors Even the days of dark, still we all got hope So what's the We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Christopher Columbus the only one founder They don't mention niggas was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray from a different I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well shove it up your ass with a I'm paint the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I I'm trying to paint a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
They really know, 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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I'm not even against the movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've done wrong And, and we have done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop saying the same thing and do something different All this energy we're putting into protesting We put it into our community Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into community our own businesses So we have to support all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the homeless all Do this all year, just stop Don't just stop after case is over just stop after this topic, keep it going