Tell me what it To be black, someone me what it means Who I gotta 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 I'm proper when I speak, black man I be a chain and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream man, a dream black man You really gotta practice what you preach, 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 Everybody hurt, who caused the scar 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first mother wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a just to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's to boycott shit We need less and more doctrines We need less and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I went to college I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double standard thinking is If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't exist I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I pray for the truth and I pray for I for Detroit and I pray for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray 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 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 strip club, throw my income Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we 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 the motive We don't control shit, cause we don't own Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you me, do I need to speak louder Christopher ain't the only one founder They mention niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, blown Bobby Ray from a different I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong shove it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You for the enemy, then stare into the mirror I I'm trying to paint a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
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I'm not even the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And our community And not so much complaining about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same and do something different All this energy we're putting into protesting We should put it our community Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your 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, just stop Don't just stop after this case is Don't just stop after this topic, it going