VIC MENSA FEAT. YUSEF & WYATT WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops (Hold on!), no more teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops, no more teardrops No teardrops, no more teardrops
Police on fire in the streets Tear gas and the dogs on a The scene like somethin' in the sixties They takin' knees like Monica They women like Bobby did Whitney That's why the only blue we is to Nipsey Juneteenth barbecue at the Hanging by the pigtails, burned Wendy's Strange fruits still swingin' from the White folks protesting they can't leave Try to life, that's a real quarantine They just take the mask off when they breathe But we got officers in our esophagus Face blue he running out of oxygen Got his brains by one of his accomplices Add you to the list of his He came forward in the night, now mourning Black up to no-knock warrants But the fascism the only army warrin' at the way the patriarchy took and tore him Look at the blood, the streets filled teardrops I ain't for 'em, I ain't 'bout to share crop Pissed off, my wrist in gridlock I'm with this shits, nigga, 'til the bullshit
No teardrops, no more teardrops No teardrops, no more tears No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no more
I'm tired of seein' niggas at the funeral Tired of learnin' my homie's name at the I'm of wearin' suits, man, this ain't suitable I'm tired of runnin', but the keep shooting me dyin' and we still buyin' jewelry Nigga, this ain't the time for the A sign of the times, shit ain't what it to be I a hoodie on, look at what they do to me .223 cocked, I need a handout This Street, we done got a bailout try to tell us to believe in the government But even Barack is president, niggas had to sell rocks One out of fifteen niggas in the cell The other fourteen, don't nobody about I'm in the courtroom pullin' my out 'Cause I get another year for each one of my At times, you gotta back to get your life back But if you fight back, you get your life jacked And just to fight back, you gotta have the right 'Cause Johnny gonna hit you with the price tag Malcolm X, Huey Newton, they don't that Hell, nah, they don't like that nigga try to hit me with a nightstick I'm going for my clip, I goin' out like that
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no tears
Can you feel pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Say, It's for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! I I'm at war All I wanted to do was live without fear (All he wanted, wanted) Now I'm all tied up (All up) With to go (Nowhere to go, oh)
Spiritual negro, keeper of the My and the Holy Ghost (I hear) Of the long-forgotten (I hear) First I assert my memory, my moccasins (I hear) They observed I had a cottonmouth, I spoke (I hear) I spit fire that was stored up in my bones, I smoke (I hear) Listen though, our skin-folk kinfolk what I kept my dome on a swivel for in this, uncivil war They want me to shut up and dribble Black soil, got rich from the Struggle, marriage, engaged in combat Looking for armed men and I'm next Turing Birmingham into a hot plate to feed my they dug it (dug it, dug it)