Tell me what it To be black, tell me what it means Who I gotta for, who am I to be What car I gotta drive, where I buy my jeans, black man If you ain't really hood, you be a black man Is it cause I'm proper I speak, black man Should I be a chain and teeth black man Or a Martin Luther King had a dream man, a dream black man You really gotta practice you preach, black man How you gonna talk about peace, man When I got death on my screen I am not the enemy, man So who the first straw Everybody hurt, who caused the first 'Cause as soon as you see get to fighting You be the mother fucker wanna yell out World Star Can't else touch a nigga But it's for a brother just to bust a nigga Guns sold in every hood, slay a dozen niggas Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a with you And that don't the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit The way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets time to boycott shit We need less rappers and more We need less and more prophets We need more unity, less But who am I to speak, I never went to I hate to be the bearer of bad But all of this double standard thinking is If hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist I pray for tomorrow, I for the sorrow I pray for the and I pray for Chicago I for Detroit and I pray for Oakland I pray for Port Au Prince and I for New Orleans let me know, how can I be a better African American Like I ain't up being black in America Like I ain't grow up crack, AIDS and heroin
They really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they don't 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
don't really know, ugh, they don't really They don't really know, black man, man, black 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, a cigar Hitta another club, throw my income Well, I it's all we know is all we been taught, so that's all we show Just a from Decatur, white as all our doors Even though the days of dark, we all got hope So the motive We don't shit, cause we don't own shit in our own hoods, we ain't votin' And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's wasn't built in just an hour Can you me, do I need to speak louder Christopher ain't the only one founder They don't mention niggas that was on the Wait a second, let it soak, blown Ray from a different timezone I dare to my mind, and I'm wrong Well shove it up your ass a pinecone I'm tryna paint the bigger You looking for the enemy, then stare the mirror I said I'm trying to paint a picture You looking for the answer, then into the mirror, black man
They really know, black man They don't really know, ugh, they don't don't really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, don't really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't really know, ugh, don't really don't really know, black man, black man, black man
They don't know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh
I'm not even the whole movement Like I'm not even on it It's just, if we put that 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 like We gotta just saying the same thing and do something different All this energy we're putting into protesting We should put it our community Put it into start up businesses, put it into your Put it into community Start our own So we don't have to support all other businesses the, fuck, feed the homeless all year Do this all year, don't stop Don't stop after this case is over Don't just after this topic, keep it going