Tell me it means To be black, tell me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a chain and teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream man, a dream black man You gotta practice what you preach, black man How you talk about peace, black man When I got death on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the first hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out Star Can't nobody touch a nigga But cool for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, slay a dozen niggas kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple with you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm on some black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets It's time to boycott We need less and more doctrines We need less ballers and prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I went to college I hate to be the of bad news But all of this double thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the new black wouldn't even exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I for Chicago I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I ain't grow up black in America Like I ain't grow up crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh a swisher, roll a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know is all we been taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, we all got hope So what's the We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's Rome wasn't built in an hour Can you me, do I need to speak louder Christopher Columbus ain't the one founder They don't niggas that was on the Mayflower Wait a second, let it soak, mind Ray from a different timezone I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, then into the mirror I said I'm to paint a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
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I'm not even against the movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how been done wrong And, and we been done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do something All this energy that putting into protesting We should put it our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it into community Start our own So we don't have to support all these businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't just Don't just stop after case is over just stop after this topic, keep it going