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Be Happy (Smile for Equality)
- Cause I got a dream, I'm dreaming hard
- //[Intro]
- Yo, yo, this my Race in America class rap...
- ...
- I know, ya boy Trizzy sure is a class act...
- I'm messing with ya'
- //[Verse 1]
- Wishing peeps would understand, they act like we is under them
- I find myself chasing ghosts, wishing M L K was one of them
- Equality doesn't exist if you don't think I'm one of you
- Fighting to be treated equally is everything I wanna do
- It's not so thrilling to be feeling like they don't want my feelings
- Feelings spilling, always willing to be villains killing
- Think we always stealing, fifty years since racial healings
- If a black man touch a white girl, there'll be facial peelings
- Like there's no such thing as interracial oxytocin
- Discriminated left to overdose on supposed potions
- The sixties' passion caused my devotion, emotions woven
- Here's a personal notion that's been stuck in my emotions
- Can't trust cops no more when they all carry hot Glocks
- Cops'll prolly cut me up, making my t shirt a croptop
- I can't sleep when the idea hit my brain, knock knock
- I'm saying the last black with a dream got shot
- //[Break]
- Cause I got a dream, I'm dreaming hard
- //[Verse 2]
- I can't help at times, but be a little vulnerable
- I do fear institutionalized threats so formidable
- These threats coming hard, too; our system is so horrible
- Deplorable to see these privileges ain't adorable
- Put on our shoes for a moment, see why I'm so devoted
- My words is spoken, maybe these riots are ab omen
- I'm tired of representing my community since I'm a token
- The system always keeping me from being loaded
- Everyone's just so unjust have you read Just Mercy?
- Bryan Stevenson, fighting for justice, great attorney
- But rich white men in the system always stay so thirsty
- We are so serious about this, this is a journey
- If you're serious too, I want you to woman or man up
- Don't try to undermine us, just try to understand us
- I'm tired of my brothers and sisters always having their hands up
- So stand up, I mean it literally, I want you stand up
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