Tell me what it To be black, tell me what it means 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 proper when I speak, man Should I be a and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta what 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 hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna out World Star nobody else touch a nigga But it's for a brother 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 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 time to boycott We need rappers and more doctrines We need less ballers and prophets We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double standard is taboo If hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I pray for I for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African Like I grow up being black in America Like I grow up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh a swisher, roll a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we a nigga from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, still we all got So the motive We don't control shit, we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we ain't And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power Rome built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher Columbus the only one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the Wait a second, let it soak, mind Ray from a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass with a I'm tryna paint the bigger You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I said I'm trying to a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
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I'm not against the whole movement Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And our community And not so much into about how we've been done wrong And, and we been done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same and do something different All this that we're putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it into start up businesses, put it into kids Put it into community our own businesses So we don't have to support all these other Feed the, fuck, feed the homeless all Do this all year, don't stop Don't just stop this case is over Don't just after this topic, keep it going