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 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 dream black man, a dream man You really gotta what you preach, black man How you gonna about peace, black man When I got death on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't else touch a nigga But cool for a brother just to bust a nigga 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 some black mob The best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's to boycott shit We need less rappers and more We need less and more prophets We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I went 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 pray for the I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I pray for and I pray for Oakland I for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African Like I ain't up being black in America I ain't 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 guess it's all we is all we been taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga from Decatur, white as all our Even though the days of dark, still we all got So what's the We don't control shit, cause we don't own in our own hoods, we ain't 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 Columbus ain't the only one founder They don't niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Bobby Ray from a timezone I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well shove it up your ass a pinecone I'm paint the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, then stare into the 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 even against the movement Like I'm not hating 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 gotta stop just saying the same thing and do something All energy that we're putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into your our own businesses So we don't have to all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do all year, don't just stop Don't just stop after this is over Don't just stop this topic, keep it going