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- In the 18th century, African Americans were forced into slavery,
- By the 19th century, it was abolished, but was it really?
- Lets backtrack
- Before a nigga try to clap back
- They try to toss a nigga like a hackysack
- But I won't let a brother get attacked
- See everyone is always saying calm down
- But how when slavery is still going on today
- I mold the story into a piece like clay
- They say why even rap when people don't listen anyway
- How can I calm down when my niggas always being shot
- We cops who are shooting my people and it happens a lot
- Then they turn off the cam trying not to get caught
- Why my people gotta live in fear of being beat and killed
- The jail cells are filled
- with people of melanin skin
- Those people are my kin
- I gotta worry when I leave my home
- Am I gonna make it back
- or get shot cause I'm black
- See that's why I can't calm down
- All this murder makes me feel like I'm gonna drown
- See we the kings and queens we wear the crown
- See we got the blacks and the blue
- with all this happening which one are you?
- My people will not live in fear
- We will chant till there's justice and truth
- I don't know bout u but I'm living my youth
- They call us gangstas
- They call us thugs
- They go into our town and force in drugs
- Then they want to go and put the blame on us
- all we want is justice so we shout and fuss
- I'm black people think I'm slow
- They think I'm a sped
- But I get the bread
- They go and rape our women and call them a ho
- But we won't let them do that no mo
- We will fight for the protection
- All over the world not just a section
- Martin Luther King died fighting for our rights
- He marched peacefully causing no fights
- He marched to be equal
- not blacks, not whites
- That's real power
- What we've been through
- We still stand even when we are beaten by the blue
- We are powerful when we are on our feet
- That's what we have done when we've gotten beat
- All I want is for someone to realize
- That black people have real live's
- That we want to go home to our kids and to our wives
- Not being slane by these invisible knives
- God put on us on this planet
- just like he did u
- So why can't we live in peace
- Here I got a clue
- White people think they all that
- They got cars they got money, that's all wack
- The material doesn't give u power
- They think we killers,
- they think we got crack
- Well lemme just say one thing
- We don't care if u got the bling
- We only care about God, he's the king
- Y'all think we have no say
- That God doesn't listen when we pray
- I have a message for yall today
- If he didn't listen we'd be okay
- Yeah we okay
- He listens anyway
- I said we want change
- I know it may seem strange
- Why should we want better
- like why a homeless person needs a sweater
- Martin Luther King had a letter
- About "whites" not just one
- but many
- The ones that don't let us get a penny
- They try to make us broke
- Knee on our throat till we choke
- They want us to inhale in the smoke
- Well, metaphorically
- But I'm speaking rhetorically
- I'm not speaking historically
- This stuff happens to us now
- They take the Glock and (boom, boom, pow)
- The KKK try to strike fear into our heart
- But nothing will tear us apart
- Why my people gotta live and fear
- of being beat and killed
- The jail cells are filled
- with people of melanin skin
- Those people are my kin
- I gotta worry when I leave my home
- Am I gonna make it back
- Or will get shot just because I'm black
- They beat us to a batter
- Make our blood splatter
- the message I'm trying to put out is
- That BLACK LIVES MATTER!
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