Tell me what it To be black, someone tell me 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 really hood, you can't be a black man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a and gold teeth black 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 the first straw Everybody hurt, who caused the first 'Cause as as you see niggas get to fighting You be the first mother fucker wanna out World Star Can't nobody else a nigga But it's cool for a brother to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, he'll 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 some mob shit The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their It's time to boycott We need less and more doctrines We need less ballers and more We need more unity, 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 for Chicago I pray for Detroit and I for Oakland I for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African Like I grow up being black in America Like I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and
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Sim sim simmer, ugh Pour liquor, for my niggas, ugh Bust a swisher, a cigar Hitta another strip club, my income Well, I guess all we know Hate is all we been taught, so all we show a nigga from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the of dark, still we all got hope So the motive We don't control shit, cause we don't own Even in our own hoods, we votin' And not for Obama, but locally voting, that's power Rome wasn't in just an hour Can you hear me, do I need to speak Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the Wait a second, let it soak, blown Bobby Ray a different timezone I to speak my mind, and I'm wrong shove it up your ass with a pinecone I'm tryna the bigger picture You looking for the enemy, stare into the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
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I'm not even against the movement Like I'm not hating on it It's just, if we put energy into ourselves And our community And not so much into complaining about how we've been 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 we're putting protesting We should put it into our Put it start up businesses, put it into your kids Put it into community Start our own So we don't have to support all these businesses Feed the, fuck, feed the all year Do this all year, just stop Don't just stop after this case is Don't just stop this topic, keep it going