Tell me it means 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 really hood, you can't be a black man Is it I'm proper when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and teeth black man Or a Martin King had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice what you preach, man How you gonna about peace, black man When I got death threats on my I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who caused the first 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Can't else touch a nigga But it's for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a 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, their time to boycott shit We less rappers and more doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I never went to I hate to be the of bad news But all of double standard thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I pray for the truth and I pray for I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American I ain't grow up being black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I it's all we know Hate is all we been taught, so all we show Just a nigga from Decatur, as all our doors Even the days of dark, still we all got hope So what's the 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 wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to speak Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray from a timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the bigger You looking for the enemy, then into the mirror I said I'm trying to a bigger picture You for the answer, then look 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 into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've been done And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this energy that putting into protesting We should put it our community Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your community Start our own So we don't have to all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, don't just Don't just stop after this case is Don't just stop after this topic, it going