Tell me it means To be black, someone tell me what it Who I vote for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a black man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna talk about peace, man When I got threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first Everybody hurt, who caused the scar as soon as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first mother wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody touch a nigga But cool for a brother 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 time to boycott shit 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 thinking is taboo If black is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I for Detroit 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 grow up crack, AIDS and heroin
They don't really know, 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 Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I guess it's all we is all we been 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 the motive We don't 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 in just an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher Columbus ain't the only one don't mention niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, blown Bobby Ray from a different I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up ass with a pinecone I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
They don't really know, man They don't really know, ugh, they really They really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't really know, black man, man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, don't really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
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I'm not even against the movement Like I'm not even on it just, if we put that energy into ourselves And into our And not so much into complaining about how we've been wrong And, and we have done wrong, but it's like We stop just saying the same thing and do something different All this energy that we're putting into We put it into our community Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids 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 Don't just stop after this is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it