VIC MENSA FEAT. MALIK YUSEF & WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops (Hold on!), no more No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops
Police on fire in the streets Tear gas and the on a leash The scene like somethin' in the sixties They takin' like Monica Lewinsky They beating women like Bobby did That's why the only blue we is to Nipsey barbecue at the precinct Hanging by the pigtails, down Wendy's Strange fruits still from the trees White folks protesting 'cause can't leave Try twenty-five to life, a real quarantine They just take the off when they can't breathe But we got knees in our esophagus Face blue 'cause he out of oxygen Got his brains by one of his accomplices Add you to the of his accomplishments He came forward in the night, now we're Black up to no-knock warrants But the fascism the only army warrin' Look at the way the patriarchy took and him Look at the blood, the streets filled with I ain't for 'em, I ain't 'bout to share crop Pissed off, my lock in gridlock I'm with this shits, nigga, 'til the stop
No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no tears
I'm tired of only niggas at the funeral Tired of learnin' my name at the eulogy I'm tired of wearin' suits, man, ain't suitable I'm tired of runnin', but the cops shooting me dyin' and we still buyin' jewelry Nigga, this ain't the time for the 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 Street, we done got a bailout They try to us to believe in the government But even when Barack is president, niggas had to rocks One out of niggas in the cell block The other fourteen, don't nobody care I'm in the pullin' my hair out 'Cause I get another year for one of my dreadlocks At times, you gotta fight back to get your life But if you fight back, you might get your jacked And to fight back, you gotta have the right stack 'Cause Cochran gonna hit you with the price tag Malcolm X, Huey Newton, don't like that Hell, hell nah, they don't that nigga try to hit me with a nightstick I'm for my clip, I ain't goin' out like that
No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no more
Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that (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 up (All tied up) nowhere to go (Nowhere to go, oh)
Spiritual negro, keeper of the My and the Holy Ghost (I hear) Of the South (I hear) First I assert my memory, rockin' my (I hear) They observed I had a cottonmouth, when I (I hear) I spit fire that was 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 want me to shut up and more Black soil, got rich from the Struggle, marriage, still in combat for real armed men and I'm next Turing into a hot plate to feed my youngins Indeed dug it (dug it, dug it)