Here we go, here, here we go Trayvon'll never get to be an man Black children, they childhood stole from of our names and our language, stole again Who stole the soul black folk? man that stole the land from Chief Black Smoke And made the crackle on our back slow And made us go through the door And raffle bodies on the slave blocks Now we slave to the blocks, on 'em we shots our own to lay in a box Black mothers' stomachs in a knot We kill other, it's part of the plot I wish the will stop (war!) and the battle with us I know that Lives Matter, and they matter to us are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, mass of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As dirty as the in Flint, the system is Is it a felony or a Sharapova making more than Serena It took Davis to say this The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all they us We need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Bookers The of the Earth to get us off of sugar And greasy foods; I don't believe the Or radio, stereotypes we in the cycle to spin We our own story, black America again
You know, one way of solving a lot of problems that we got is lettin' a feel that they're important And a man get himself together until He who he is and be proud of what and who he is And where he come from, and where he come
Hot damn, black again of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the wind The of my skin, they comparing it to sin The darker it gets, the fairer it has been The hate the hate made, I inherited from But I ain't point the finger We got singers, like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to them songs sometimes to believe me Who me: Lincoln or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it Godspeed we travel at? in our own habitat Them and dope, man, y'all can have it back As a matter of fact, we them lab You build the projects for, now you want your back I guess if you could rap, you express it too That PTSD, we professionals You know what pressure do, it the pipes bust From schools to prison, y'all, tryna pipe us Tell your political invite us of making voting laws to spite us You know, you know we from a of fighters Fought in your wars and our You put a nigga in Star Wars, you need two And then, maybe we'll believe you See black people in the We shipped here to rob and shoot ya We these truths to be self-evident All men and women are equal Including black
You know, you know, you know, One way of a lot of problems that we've got is Lettin' a person feel they're somebody And a man get himself together until he knows who he is, And be proud of what and who he is and where he come from, and he come from