VIC MENSA FEAT. MALIK YUSEF & WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops (Hold on!), no more teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops
Police on fire in the streets Tear gas and the on a leash The seem like somethin' in the sixties They knees like Monica Lewinsky They women like Bobby did Whitney That's why the only blue we is to Nipsey Juneteenth at the precinct Hanging by the pigtails, burned Wendy's Strange fruits still swingin' the trees folks protesting 'cause they can't leave Try twenty-five to life, that's a quarantine They take the mask off when they can't breathe But we got officers knees in our Face blue 'cause he running out of Got his brains blew by one of his Add you to the of his accomplishments He came forward in the night, now mourning Black fist up to no-knock But the fascism ain't the only army Look at the way the patriarchy and tore him Look at the blood, the streets filled with I ain't slavin' for 'em, I ain't to share crop Pissed off, my lock in gridlock I'm with shits, nigga, 'til the bullshit stop
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no more No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no tears
I'm of only seein' niggas at the funeral Tired of learnin' my homie's name at the I'm tired of wearin' suits, man, this suitable I'm tired of runnin', but the keep shooting me dyin' and we still buyin' jewelry Nigga, this ain't the for the tomfoolery A sign of the times, shit ain't it used to be I throw a hoodie on, look at they do to me .223 cocked, I don't a handout This Street, we done 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 niggas in the block The other fourteen, don't nobody about I'm in the pullin' my hair out I get another year for each one of my dreadlocks At times, you gotta fight back to get your life But if you fight back, you get your life jacked And just to fight back, you gotta the right stack 'Cause Cochran gonna hit you with the price tag Malcolm X, Huey Newton, they don't like Hell, hell nah, don't like that First try to hit me with a nightstick I'm for my clip, I ain't goin' out like that
No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops, no more tears
Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Say, It's for a change! I I'm at war All I ever wanted to do was live without (All he wanted, wanted) Now I'm all up (All tied up) With 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, my moccasins (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) 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 more Black soil, got rich from the Struggle, marriage, still in combat Looking for real men and I'm next Turing Birmingham into a hot plate to feed my Indeed dug it (dug it, dug it)