VIC MENSA FEAT. YUSEF & WYATT WADDELL - NO MORE TEARDROPS
No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops (Hold on!), no more No more teardrops, no more No more teardrops, no teardrops No more teardrops, no teardrops
Police cars on fire in the gas and the dogs on a leash The seem like somethin' in the sixties They takin' knees like Lewinsky They beating women like Bobby did That's why the blue we salute is to Nipsey Juneteenth barbecue at the Hanging by the pigtails, burned down Strange fruits still swingin' the trees White folks protesting 'cause can't leave Try twenty-five to life, that's a quarantine They just take the mask off they can't breathe But we got officers in our esophagus Face blue 'cause he running out of Got his brains by one of his accomplices Add you to the of his accomplishments He forward in the night, now we're mourning Black fist up to warrants But the fascism ain't the army warrin' at the way the patriarchy took and tore him Look at the blood, the streets filled teardrops I slavin' for 'em, I ain't 'bout to share crop off, my wrist lock in gridlock I'm with this shits, nigga, 'til the stop
No teardrops, no more teardrops No more teardrops, no tears No more teardrops, no more No teardrops, no more tears
I'm of only seein' niggas at the funeral Tired of learnin' my name at the eulogy I'm tired of wearin' suits, man, this ain't I'm tired of runnin', but the cops shooting me Niggas dyin' and we still buyin' Nigga, this ain't the for the tomfoolery A sign of the times, shit ain't it used to be I throw a hoodie on, look at what do to me .223 cocked, I need a handout This Street, we done got a bailout try to tell us to believe in the government But even when Barack is president, niggas had to rocks One out of fifteen niggas in the block The fourteen, don't nobody care about I'm in the courtroom pullin' my out I get another year for each one of my dreadlocks At times, you fight back to get your life back But if you back, you might get your life jacked And just to fight back, you gotta have the right 'Cause Cochran gonna hit you with the price tag Malcolm X, Newton, they don't like that Hell, hell nah, they don't like First try to hit me with a nightstick I'm going for my clip, I ain't out like that
No more teardrops, no teardrops No teardrops, no more tears No teardrops, no more teardrops No teardrops, no more tears
Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, 'em off) Can you feel that pain? (Shake 'em, 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel that (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, time for a change! (Yeah, yeah, yeah) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you feel pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Can you that pain? (Shake 'em, shake 'em, shake 'em off) Say, It's for a change! I I'm at war All I ever wanted to do was without fear (All he wanted, wanted) Now I'm all tied up (All up) With to go (Nowhere to go, oh)
negro, keeper of the cult My heart and the Ghost (I hear) Of the South (I hear) First I assert my memory, my moccasins (I hear) They observed I had a cottonmouth, I spoke (I hear) I spit fire was stored up in my bones, then I smoke (I hear) Listen though, our skin-folk kinfolk That's what I kept my dome on a swivel for in this, war They want me to up and dribble more Black soil, got rich from the Struggle, marriage, still engaged in Looking for real armed men and I'm Turing Birmingham into a hot plate to feed my they dug it (dug it, dug it)