Tonalità: C minor
Verse 1
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It's a real
bad time for black celebrities,
they lockin everybody up
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Michael Jackson, James
Verse 2
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Brown, Tupac,
R. Kelly, OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson,
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Kobe Bryant, Jay- Z, Mystikal, P. Diddy,
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Allen Iverson, Snoop Dogg, DMX,
Styles P, Shine,
Beanie Segal, Lil' Kim.
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[Chorus] Is it
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because I'm Black
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Is it because I'm Black
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you black you got to hustle,
got to struggle and strive.
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And not every cat that
goes through that struggle survive.
But he got to stay stronger and
keep the struggle alive.
They say the struggle died,
I say the struggle revived.
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My profession is going
through oppression.
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That's why I'm so stressed
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and I'm working with no rest,
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And no question ima fight for y'all
cause I don't like it y'all,
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We make half as much
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as them,
we workin twice as hard yall.
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It ain't fair sometimes you seein heaven
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signs, I ain't Pharaohcon
But I got knowledge and I'm
sharing mines. I swear its time to
Be aware that they fear you mind,
and they fear your heart. You
Want to change here's the start. I'm
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tired of watching cops outline
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My peers and y'all, I'm trying to make a move,
I'm not trying to make
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The news. They say the consequences
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worst when we break the
Rules. To get back and right you got
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to make a sacrifice.
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We got some problems we need solve, here's
our chance to get them handle.
Just take the boycott in Alabama
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for example. They stop ridin the bus till they
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Address their affairs. And they ended segregation
in less then a year. So imagine
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What our status if we made a contribution,
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we'll probably be able to change the
Constitution. I can't see no other kind
of solution we deserve our reparation, its
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Time for a revolutions. I'm a step ahead of Satan,
I read it in Revelation. Forget
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Your reputation, lets make it a better nation,
cause they trying to cage us in,
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Make us slaves again,
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eventually its meant to be the new plantation, the penitentiary.
For centuries they had a plan we let them executed,
everyday another brother getting
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Executed. And all our artist getting arrested
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I aspect improvement. It's a message
In the music, I suggest you use it.
[Chorus]
Verse 6
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On the streets its hard to survive.
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Why, is it because I'm black,
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Hot Shot got rock, I can't
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bring my cousin back.
Five- hundred thousand sold, gold,
yeah it wasn't platinum,
But Clyde gave me another try,
cause I wasn't whack.
And now I'm buzzin back, yeah
I got my budget back.
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Renegotiating got a mil to
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do a dozen tracks.
Yea I'm eatin only reason
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is because I rap,
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my homies eatin only
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reason is because of crack.
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They can't get a job so them niggas
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quick to rob, quick to steal,
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Quick to kill, grip the steal,
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quick to ride.
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Malcolm X, Martin Luther King we
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can't forget them guys.
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These politician, hypocrites
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they got us hypnotize.
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That why I kiss rick, why,
we got to lift our eyes.
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Cause if we keep 'em close
they just goin keep control.
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And hold our sisters and brothers
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in the pen and we was born guilty
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Cause the color of our skin
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