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black lives matter
- Protests and growing national outcry continues
- Over the death of George Floyd
- Last night, people protesting in Minneapolis escalated
- As demonstrators were lashed by tear gas and rubber bullets
- The main message here, the main message here, the main message here
- Is that they want to see those officers involved
- They want to see those officers arrested
- Officers arrested
- (I can't breathe, I can't breathe)
- Trade my 4 x 4 for a G63, ain't no more free Lil Steve
- I gave 'em chance and chance and chance again
- I even done told them please
- I find it crazy the police'll shoot you and know that you dead
- But still tell you to freeze
- Fucked up, I seen what I seen
- I guess that mean hold him down if he say he can't breathe
- It's too many mothers that's grieving
- They killing us for no reason
- Been going on for too long to get even
- Throw us in cages like dogs and hyenas
- I went to court and they sent me to prison
- My mama was crushed when they said I can't leave
- First I was drunk, then I sobered up quick
- When I heard all that time that they gave to Taleeb
- He got a life sentence plus
- We just some products of our environment
- How the fuck they gon' blame us?
- You can't fight fire with fire
- I know, but at least we can turn up the flames some
- Every colored person ain't dumb and all whites not racist
- I be judging by the mind and heart, I ain't really into faces
- Fucked up, the way that we livin' is not getting better
- You gotta know how to survive
- Crazy, I had to tell all of my loved ones
- To carry a gun when they going outside
- Stare in the mirror whenever you drive
- Overprotective, go crazy for mine
- You gotta pay attention to the signs
- Seem like the blind following the blind
- Thinking 'bout everything that's going on
- I boost security up at my home
- I'm with my kind if they right or they wrong
- I call him now, he'll pick up the phone
- And it's five in the morning, he waking up on it
- Tell 'em wherever I'm at, then they comin'
- I see blue lights, I get scared and start runnin'
- That shit be crazy, they 'posed to protect us
- Throw us in handcuffs and arrest us
- While they go home at night, that shit messed up
- Knowing we needed help, they neglect us
- Wondering who gon' make them respect us
- I can see in your eye that you fed up
- Fuck around, got my shot, I won't let up
- They know that we a problem together
- They know that we can storm any weather
- It's bigger than black and white
- It's a problem with the whole way of life
- It can't change overnight
- But we gotta start somewhere
- Might as well gon' 'head start here
- We done had a hell of a year
- I'ma make it count while I'm here
- God is the only man I fear
- Fuck it, I'm goin' on the front line
- He gon' bust your ass if you come past that gun line
- You know when the storm go away, then the sun shine
- You gotta put your head in the game when it's crunch time
- I want all my sons to grow up to be monsters
- I want all my daughters to show out in public
- Seems like we losing our country
- But we gotta stand up for something, so this what it comes to
- Every video I see on my conscience
- I got power, now I gotta say somethin'
- Corrupted police been the problem where I'm from
- But I'd be lying if I said it was all of them
- I ain't do this for the trend, I don't follow them
- Altercations with the law, had a lot of them
- People speaking for the people, I'm proud of them
- Stick together, we can get it up out of them
- I can't lie like I don't rap about killing and dope
- But I'm telling my youngins to vote
- I did what I did 'cause I didn't have no choice or no hope
- I was forced to just jump in and go
- This bullshit is all that we know, but it's time for a change
- Got time to be serious, no time for no games
- We ain't takin' no more, let us go from them chains
- God bless they souls, every one of them names
- It's bigger than black and white
- It's a problem with the whole way of life
- It can't change overnight
- But we gotta start somewhere
- Might as well gon' 'head start here
- We done had a hell of a year
- I'ma make it count while I'm here
- God is the only man I fear
- They trainin' officers to kill us
- Then shootin' protestors with these rubber bullets
- They regular people, I know that they feel it
- These scars too deep to heal us
- What happened to COVID? Nobody remember
- It ain't makin' sense, I'm just here to vent
- It happen to one of your people, it's different
- We get it, the system is wicked, just learn how to pick it
- Knowledge is power, I swear I'm a witness, I know that I'm gifted
- I won't go too deep 'cause I'm scared they'll get me
- Ain't scared to admit it, some shit I can't mention
- It's people who can, well, here's the chance
- I won't take the stand, but I'll take a stand for what I believe
- Must not be breathing the air that I breathe
- You know that the way that I bleed, you can bleed
- I never been a fan of police
- But my neighborhood know I try to keep peace
- So it's only right that I get in the streets
- March for a reason, not just on GP
- Our people died for us to be free
- Fuck do you mean? This was a dream
- Now we got the power that we need to have
- They don't want us with it and that's why they mad, yeah
- It's bigger than black and white
- It's a problem with the whole way of life
- It can't change overnight
- But we gotta start somewhere
- Might as well gon' 'head start here
- We done had a hell of a year
- I'ma make it count while I'm here
- God is the only man I fear
- It's bigger than black and white
- It's a problem with the whole way of life
- It can't change overnight
- But we gotta start somewhere
- Might as well gon' 'head start here
- We done had a hell of a year
- I'ma make it count while I'm here
- God is the only man I fear
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