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, where I buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it I'm proper when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and gold teeth man Or a Martin Luther King had a black man, a dream black man You gotta practice what you preach, black man How you talk about peace, black man I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna out World Star nobody else touch a nigga But it's cool for a brother just to bust a Guns sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen Gon' kill yourself, while at it, take a couple with you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, pockets It's time to boycott We less rappers and more doctrines We need less ballers and 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 double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even 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 pray for New let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I ain't grow up 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 Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know is all we been taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors though the days of dark, still we all got hope So what's the We don't shit, cause we don't own shit in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not for Obama, but locally voting, that's power wasn't built 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 a different timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a bigger You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, 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 energy into ourselves And our community And not so into complaining about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but it's We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this energy that we're into protesting We put it into our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into kids Put it into your our own businesses So we don't have to support all these businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't stop after this case is over just stop after this topic, keep it going