Tell me it means To be black, someone tell me what it Who I vote for, who am I to be What car I drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you really hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and gold 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 talk about peace, man I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who the first straw Everybody hurt, who caused the scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Can't else touch a nigga But cool for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns in every hood, he'll 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 best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, pockets time to boycott shit We less rappers and more doctrines We need less and more prophets We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I never went to 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 black even exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I pray for I for Detroit and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American Like I ain't grow up black in America Like I ain't grow up crack, AIDS and heroin
They don't really know, man They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
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don't really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta strip club, throw my income Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we Just a from Decatur, white as all our doors Even the days of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to speak Christopher Columbus ain't the only one They mention niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up ass with a pinecone I'm tryna the bigger picture You for the enemy, then stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, look into the mirror, black man
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I'm not against the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And into our And not so much into complaining how we've been done wrong And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We stop just saying the same thing and do something different All this energy that we're putting protesting We put it into our community 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 businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't just after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it