Tell me what it To be black, someone 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 ain't hood, you can't 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 Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a dream man You really gotta practice you preach, black man How you gonna talk peace, black man When I got 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 get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets It's time to boycott We need rappers and more doctrines We need less and more prophets We need more unity, less 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 new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I ain't grow up being black in Like I ain't up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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I'm not against the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And our community And not so much complaining about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but like We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do different All this energy that we're putting protesting We should put it into our 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, just stop Don't stop after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it