Tell me what it To be black, someone me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, man Should I be a chain and gold teeth man Or a Luther King had a dream black man, a dream black man You gotta practice what you preach, black man How you gonna about peace, black man I got death threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who caused the scar as soon as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first fucker wanna yell out World Star nobody else touch a nigga But cool for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll 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 just on some mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets It's time to boycott We less rappers and more doctrines We less ballers and more prophets We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double standard thinking is If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I for the truth and I pray for Chicago I for Detroit 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 grow up being black in America Like I ain't up around crack, AIDS and heroin
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Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta another strip club, throw my Well, I guess it's all we is all we been taught, so that's all we show Just a nigga Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the of dark, still we all got hope So what's the We don't control shit, cause we don't own in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not just for Obama, but voting, that's power wasn't built in just an hour Can you me, do I need to speak louder Columbus ain't the only one founder They don't mention niggas was on the Mayflower a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray from a different I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass a pinecone I'm tryna paint the bigger You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a bigger You for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even against the whole Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And into our And not so much into complaining how we've been done wrong And, and we been done wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this energy that we're into protesting We put it into 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 all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the homeless all Do this all year, don't stop Don't stop after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, it going