Tell me what it To be black, tell me what it means Who I vote 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 when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and teeth black man Or a Martin Luther had a dream black man, a dream black man You really gotta practice you preach, black man How you gonna talk about peace, man When I got death threats on my I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw hurt, who caused the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Can't nobody touch a nigga But it's cool for a brother to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll 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 best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's time to boycott We less rappers and more doctrines We need less ballers and more We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I to be the bearer of bad news But all of double standard thinking is taboo If hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American Like I ain't grow up being black in Like I grow up around 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 strip club, my income Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we 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 Even in our own hoods, we ain't And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's Rome wasn't in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to speak Christopher Columbus ain't the one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray a different timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass with a I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, stare 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 that energy into And our community And not so much into complaining how we've been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but it's We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this energy that putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into your Start our own So we don't have to all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't stop after this case is over Don't just stop after this topic, keep it