Tell me it means 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 can't be a man Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, 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 practice what you preach, black man How you gonna about peace, black man When I got threats on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who draws the straw Everybody hurt, who caused the scar 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a brother to bust a nigga Guns sold in hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, a couple with you And that justify the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their It's to boycott shit We need less rappers and doctrines We need less ballers and prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I never went to I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this standard thinking is taboo If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I for Detroit 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 better African Like I ain't grow up being in America Like I ain't up around crack, AIDS and heroin
They don't know, black man They really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't know, black man, black man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really They really know, black man, black man, black man
They really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh a swisher, roll a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we Just a from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We control shit, cause we don't own shit Even in our own hoods, we ain't And not just for Obama, but locally voting, power wasn't built in just an hour Can you hear me, do I to speak louder Christopher Columbus 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 my mind, and I'm wrong Well it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna paint the bigger You for the enemy, then stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a bigger You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, man
They really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, don't really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
I'm not against the whole movement Like I'm not hating on it just, if we put that energy into ourselves And into our And not so much complaining about 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 putting into We put it into our community Put it into up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your community Start our own So we have to support all these other businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't just stop this case is over Don't just stop this topic, keep it going