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Quavo-black man ft T.I.
- [Hook: Quavo]
- Black man, drop top
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- Is it because of my people?
- Is it because of my sneakers?
- Is it because of my jersey?
- It is because that I'm perfect?
- [Verse 1: Quavo]
- Ridin' down 85, three in the morning
- Why you pull me over sayin' you smell marijuana? (Smellin' the gas)
- I said I got a ID, I got glaucoma (I got ID)
- He said, "We ain't in Cali nigga, get out, put your hands up"
- Runnin' real hard shook the taser (shook the taser)
- Runnin' real hard shook the taser (shook the taser)
- I told him can we split it, we gon' shake 'em
- Nigga hit my phone when you made it (brrp)
- Out of here, PJ to Jamaica
- Naw I ain't tell ya wrong, get the paper
- Been fightin' too long against haters
- My attitude, yeah I'm going for the shaders
- [Verse 2: Rara]
- Live from the cracks of the concrete
- 12 try to take a nigga off the street
- Make the gun sound off for Mike Brown
- Take a nigga life when you face down
- Hoodie gang strong like Trayvon
- Gun by the window like Detroit Red
- Bring that shit by the neck of my woods
- And bet a nigga ass end up dead
- Pig in a blanket, fuck was you thinkin'?
- Free that nigga Boosie, runnin' at the police
- Left him with a slow leak, right outside VC
- Tryna keep a Phantom like DC
- Hangout the G like free Meek
- Kill a nigga reachin' for a cell phone
- Hurt to tell his mama he ain't comin' home
- That's why I stay strapped all summer long
- And you know it
- [Hook: Quavo]
- Black man, drop top
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- Is it because of my people?
- Is it because of my sneakers?
- Is it because of my jersey?
- It is because that you nervous? (damn)
- [Verse 3: Meek Mill]
- Black man
- Running from the law like Pac Man
- Try and throw the raw all in the trash can
- Got smoked by a cop on the dash cam
- Mug shot on the news, he a mad man
- When all he did was hustle to run the cash in
- He feedin' kids in jail if he wasn't crackin'
- Too many felonies on my jacket
- All of my brothers turn to assassins
- We seen too many brothers get put in caskets
- Too many young baby mothers and baby daddies
- In the graveyard back then
- I went from sittin' on clubs to the cashmere
- You shoulda seen how I flossed on 'em last year
- Two Maybachs and I had a bad year
- Young nigga countin' money like a cashier
- White man wanna pay me like I'm U N O
- Niggas wanna see me at my funeral
- Neither of my own homie wanna do me though
- Layin' on my dog crib like I'm Snoopy though
- That's my nigga, I ain't even wanna do it though
- If I don't do it, shit I know he gon' do me though
- Cause he broke and he trippin' 'bout stupid hoes
- But I'm a Don just like motherfuckin' Julio
- Black man
- [Hook: Quavo]
- Black man, drop top
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- Is it because of my people?
- Is it because of my sneakers?
- Is it because of my jersey?
- It is because that I'm perfect?
- [Verse 4: T.I.]
- Police see I got my hands up
- Still wanna kill me, they don't understand us
- They be lookin' for a reason just to shoot me
- And wanna do me how they do us in the movies
- Or how they do it out in Baton Rouge
- Or Ferguson, or Florida, or Baltimore, they make excuses
- Like I did cause I thought he had a pistol
- Or I did it cause I thought he was a Muslim
- My message to America, felon or death here
- The liquor we die, we just substances left here
- First you put us in a small hood
- And then you beat us and you treat us like it's all good
- And then shoot us and you screw us economically, mentally
- Killin' nigga, no penalty, they can do that shit legally
- Bet I can make that ass think 'fore you shoot
- You kill me, man there gon' be more of some riotin' and lootin'
- We say black lives matter, you say all lives
- But y'all ain't the ones gettin' hogtied
- Persecuted, executed, one day it gon' be time for retribution
- Hope you don't ever see your son in an institution
- I know karma is constant and God ain't no nonsense
- You doin' wrong just to run shit
- One day the time gon' run out for the dumb shit
- Ain't no deception, tryna get in Heaven
- You gettin' nailed, bet it's on your Mary
- And you know what you did for who how much you really care
- And what you really felt, he gon' deny the opportunity to unify
- With people who look similar to you and I
- Cause he don't wanna have a
- [Hook: Quavo]
- Black man, drop top
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- Is it because of my people?
- Is it because of my sneakers?
- Is it because of my jersey?
- It is because that I'm perfect?
- Black man, drop top
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- There go the cops
- Is it because of my people?
- Is it because of my sneakers?
- Is it because of my jersey?
- It is because that I'm perfect?
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