Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me what it 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 hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm when I speak, black man Should I be a chain and gold teeth man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream man, a dream black man You really 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 Everybody hurt, who caused the scar 'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't nobody else touch a But it's cool for a brother just to bust a sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple you And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on black mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, pockets It's to boycott shit We need less rappers and doctrines We need less ballers and more We need more unity, gossip But who am I to speak, I never to college I to be the bearer of bad news But all of this double standard thinking is If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the truth and I 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 African American Like I ain't up being black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, and heroin
They don't know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they don't They really know, black man, black man, black man
They really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they really They don't really know, black man, black man, man
don't really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
Sim sim simmer, ugh some liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, roll a Hitta strip club, throw my income Well, I guess it's all we Hate is all we taught, so that's all we show a nigga from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, still we all got So what's the We don't control shit, 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 built in just an 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 timezone I dare to speak my mind, and I'm Well shove it up your ass with a 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 looking for the answer, then look the mirror, black man
They don't know, black man don't really know, ugh, they don't really They really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, they don't They don't know, black man, black man, black man
don't really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, man, black man
They really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
I'm not even the whole movement Like I'm not hating on it It's just, if we put that energy ourselves And our community And not so much into about how we've been done wrong And, and we have been wrong, but it's like We gotta stop just saying the thing and do something different All this that we're putting into protesting We should put it into our Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it your community our own businesses So we don't have to support all other businesses Feed the, fuck, the homeless all year Do all year, don't just stop Don't just stop after this is over Don't just stop this topic, keep it going