King Malcom
Black panther
Miss Tubman
Rebel Underground
Black prophet
Like Tulsa
Done the boycott
Now, we need to go own busses
Organize, build
We in need of our own trust
And a piece of our own country
Black community
Black given opportunity
Black people just like you and me
System never gon listen
Religion constitutes
The very odds that's against us
We Sunday's best
When father gone
Nobody teach your son to invest
So he sweatin for a check
No leverage, tryna beg for success
Financial literacy
New version of teaching our people how to read
Picture getting through college
And now they proud of me
To get so caught up in work
That I don't know how to see
Who collecting off my back?
Who earning off of me?
And how they wearing suits
But say they work as hard as me?
Well...
It's simple math
Teach your kids to multiply, not only how to add
Figures
Take away the vision only takes division
Subtract necessity and later on we'll give them
More than they can have
And while they're glad we'll kill them
And give 'em back to start from scratch
And that's the system
And they pay us to promote their products
For a falsified concept of luxury
Which ironically points back to us, how to be us
You see where the problem is?
(Sigh)
Seems my whole life
I've been successful
And nobody around looks like me
It's really confusing
Cuz when shit goes down When I go outside
And it's not me
Then who gon have me?
We ain't been in the game, not in my life
We built the board they moving on
And we the dice
Life's a gamble when they gamble with your life
Last name, Campbell
I know Campbell was a White
Supplied suppliers but never got a piece
Been through war, I'm not awarded life in peace?
Please
Iron flags on the Streets
On the Ave you can see
Several names that ain't me
New masters discreet
See the bastard in me
Whether classroom or screens
Or what's pastored to me
Never seen a deity
That was matched up with me
In the land of the free
Paid the price just to be just a fraction of seen
And a man had a dream
And that's just supposed to be enough
Like I was never taught anything else but
(Front page news)
What it look like?
What it do brother?
Time to do better
Tryna maintain
It's a new-coming
Time to do other-
Than the same thing
'Member rule number one?
Never get high on your own supply
What you gon do when you can't survive?
We been
Disowning our women
For a clone of our women
Condoning our children
To leave home on our women
Cuz of no good decisions
I cannot sugar coat it
You gettin too old for this
Taught em how to dance to the hip hop
Now she wanna grow an ass and get lip shots
Now she wanna try her chance at a big shot
You got high off an advance and a big house
Only woman held you down 'fore the shit popped
Only woman had your back boi, forget not
Only woman gave you life to forget how
Only women do the dance to your diss song
She my earf
(She my Earf)
She my wisdom yeah yeah
I put her first
She rib aw yeah yeah
She my worth
That's my payday, I gotta put in work
That's my lady, I put my faith in her
Her decision, but she decide to twerk for me
Really something gifted
She get what she deserves
Shawty different I see it in her hair
That's my wisdom yeah yeah
That's my earf
I love your natural, your nature is perfect
I love your blackness, your skin is my earth
Melly be poppin you serve and you serve
When they steal from you, it get on my nerves
I know the source, baby fuck what they heard
Imma ride for you, ride for me like skrrt
Don't do opinions, the fact is they hurt
Just like my mom, you remind me of her
She remind me of her and it's giving me life
And giving me purpose
When you have my son or my daughter
Might teach em that God is a girl
When I'm in the presence of greatness
You make me remember my worth
When I'm in the Pussy, I'm grateful
I'm feeling on top of the world
Ladies and gentlemen
This is a public service announcement
To promote drugs and violence in your music
But to say you care about the damage of
Drugs and violence in your community is to
Beat your wife and tell that her you love her
I say with no apologies
You will be held accountable
Thank you
Now back to your regular scheduled
Deprogramming
A black man tellin truth come with paranoia
Quick to register your body
When they barely know ya
Y'all on Netflix, "When they see us"
That's a horror movie
You would cringe at all the shit
That's 'coming the normal to me
Whitey smiling in my face
That's just performance to me
When it's racist all around
You gain endurance to it
I seen people pointing fingers
Like they saw me do it
Wouldn't phase me
If it didn't mean my livelihood
In reality, your fear in me: inferiority
All that guilt behind the gavel
And that trigger and the badge
I bet feeling that you had
Would paint a different story
Looking like it's really you
You really been at war with
I could really give a fuck
Cuz really it's a you thing
You been waiting for so long
To put that noose to usage
Changing colors with your feelings
Like a fuckin mood ring
Had your chance at reformation this a revolution