Tell me it means To be black, someone tell me what it 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 I'm proper when I speak, black man I be a chain and gold teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a dream man You really gotta practice what you preach, 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 Everybody hurt, who the first scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first mother wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else touch a But it's cool for a brother just to a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll a dozen niggas Gon' 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 best way to protest, hit 'em it hurts, their pockets It's time to shit We need less rappers and more We need ballers and more prophets We need unity, less gossip But who am I to speak, I went to college I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double standard is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new wouldn't even exist I for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I pray for I pray for and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Somebody let me know, how can I be a African American Like I ain't grow up being black in 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, a cigar Hitta strip club, throw my income Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we Just a nigga from Decatur, as all our doors though the days of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We don't shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not just for Obama, but voting, that's power Rome wasn't in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to louder Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't mention that was on the Mayflower a second, let it soak, mind blown Bobby Ray a different timezone I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the picture You for the enemy, then stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to a bigger picture You looking for the answer, then look the mirror, black man
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I'm not against the whole movement I'm not even hating on it It's just, if we put that into ourselves And into our And not so much into complaining about how been done wrong And, and we have been done wrong, but like We gotta just saying the same thing and do something different All this energy that putting into protesting We put it into our community Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into community our own businesses So we don't have to support all these other Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, don't just Don't just stop after this is over Don't just after this topic, keep it going