VIC MENSA FEAT. MALIK & WYATT WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops (Hold on!), no teardrops No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops
Police cars on in the streets gas and the dogs on a leash The scene seem somethin' in the sixties They takin' knees like Lewinsky They beating women like did Whitney That's why the blue we salute is to Nipsey barbecue at the precinct Hanging by the pigtails, burned Wendy's fruits still swingin' from the trees White folks 'cause they can't leave Try to life, that's a real quarantine They just take the mask off they can't breathe But we got knees in our esophagus blue 'cause he running out of oxygen Got his blew by one of his accomplices Add you to the of his accomplishments He came forward in the night, now we're Black fist up to no-knock But the fascism ain't the only army at the way the patriarchy took and tore him Look at the blood, the streets filled with I ain't slavin' for 'em, I ain't 'bout to crop Pissed off, my lock in gridlock I'm with this shits, nigga, the bullshit stop
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no tears No more teardrops, no more No teardrops, no more tears
I'm of only seein' niggas at the funeral Tired of learnin' my homie's at the eulogy I'm of wearin' suits, man, this ain't suitable I'm tired of runnin', but the cops shooting me Niggas dyin' and we still jewelry Nigga, this the time for the tomfoolery A sign of the times, shit ain't it used to be I throw a hoodie on, at what they do to me .223 cocked, I don't a handout This Wall Street, we got a bailout try to tell us to believe in the government But even when is president, niggas had to sell rocks One out of fifteen in the cell block The other fourteen, don't nobody about I'm in the courtroom pullin' my out 'Cause I get another year for one of my dreadlocks At times, you gotta fight back to get your life But if you back, you might get your life jacked And to fight back, you gotta have the right stack 'Cause Johnny Cochran gonna hit you with the tag X, Huey Newton, they don't like that Hell, nah, they don't like that nigga try to hit me with a nightstick I'm going for my clip, I ain't goin' out like
No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no tears 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 pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) 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, 'em, shake 'em off) Say, It's for a change! I I'm at war All I ever to do was live without fear (All he wanted, wanted) Now I'm all up (All tied up) With to go (Nowhere to go, oh)
negro, keeper of the cult My heart and the Ghost (I hear) Of the South (I hear) First I my memory, rockin' my moccasins (I hear) They I had a cottonmouth, when I spoke (I hear) I spit that was stored up in my bones, then I smoke (I hear) though, our skin-folk into kinfolk That's I kept my dome on a swivel for in this, uncivil war They me to shut up and dribble more Black soil, got from the dirt Struggle, marriage, still in combat Looking for real armed men and I'm Turing Birmingham into a hot to feed my youngins they dug it (dug it, dug it)