It's like they k** us or we k** ourselves
It's on us
You make change
You make that sh** happen
See how women get branded
From the day that they landed
Had no kind of a value
Cuz the life that they're handed
Leave them taken for granted
Don't show respect for them hoes
Even though can't stand it, you putting up with them roles
She keep screamin it low, and she screamin it loud
You keep diggin' it out, n***a you feelin' so proud
Yeah f** it, you fiendin' so get all in between
Guess those second and third thoughts do not mean a thing
So it's back to the branding, cuz he s**in' it raw
And then you gettin' her pregnant and then you skatin' it off
So the kid ain't your problem, no conversation at all
Said that you'd be there for shorty, but you was fakin it all
Now he left with no poppa and the struggle insane
Cuz he got all them uncles but none of them will remain
Now he's raised with the issues, those of which I refrain
When it come to the women, n***a you quick with blame
We can't keep hoping for seasons to change, it's on us
So we deep in a cycle that could lead with a rifle
Never sisters and brothers, we see each other as rivals
So the system will get us, and the cops try to k** us
We just do it ourselves, leave the funerals filled it
When it comes to the girls, they could look like our moms
And you pay it no mind, and still you treat her like swine
And you give her that line, screaming MOB
Another fatherless poverty-stricken him or she
And that's the way that it is, when the sh** doesn't change
From a season to season, yeah it's just not a game
From the days of a slave, when you was forced into chains
Watching your family slain, watching the antic in brain
This is the life that became, from slicing the caine
To sycing the caine, cooking it up with the flame
See it's all systematic, how we internalize
We oppressing ourselves, creating truth with the lies
[Outro]
As our issues continue to manifest
And season change, but we still the same
Don't get it twisted
We like to think we're in post-racial era
How come we not all eating than?
How come you still in the projects?
How come there's still d** in your family?
How come they k**ing us left and right?
How come our family in prison locked up?
How come we still shttin' on each other?
If there ain't no problems?
If we all could make it?