Chorus They want to play it on the safe side/ I'll be damned if they try to take mines/ They want to send us to the promise land, wise words through the grape vine/ I used to be the one they hated on, now I'm the one that everybody needing/ Different emotions for different reasons, but who knows First verse Awe sh**, who is more important/ Larry bird or Jordan, why we getting distorted/ They still feeding us porridge / But whats left to eat when the food is gone for the poor,the rich/ My momma told never bring them white girls home/ I stayed with my black queens and left them white home/ I say but we're just black dots in this white world son/ But they gone live me when this world start getting ugly/ Will they live us, who knows. sh** nobody know/i was told to trust em bout as far as you can throw/ so i guess its T-rex arms on Mr.Tebow/and they try to take our shine just like they was Debo/ I try to speak to people who can't see the evil/ Me, I'm just another cla**ic movie who don't need a sequel/ You can refuse the knowledge and wisdom that i can teach you/ To protect you and your mind from the world of the deceitful Chorus* Second verse Uhhh, still writing chapters to manifest something perfect and still debating with pastors/ About how God ate his supper knowing it will be his last/ And he knew his open would hate, still he just it happen/ Tell me what do you got to lose/ I can preach to you or preach for you, i'll let you choose/
They don't teach life and self esteem up in school/ But they/ll send you out to work and make you look like a fool/ Chorus* 3rd verse Too much black and lack crime/ Too many flatlines/ Not enough black love being praised in these rap lines/ Tired of seeing the media disarraying these black minds/ Too many subliminals, not enough @ signs/ I/m seeing demons behind the people thats preaching/ God and i having meetings bout who is next for the leading/ Be half descent of a king, don't be half decent/ Its more of them than us, and were still decreasing/ The realest story ever told/ All black with streets of 24 karat gold/ Black don't crack, you know when ww get old/ What we handle with ease, the man try to control/ A real OG will tell these kids to stay in school/ Not buy some weed off the kid and say that they'll be cool/ Heres a phrase, play the fool, but don't get played fool/ Laws are manmade but we can rewrite rules/ Much love to the winners and the people that fought wars/ We make hot, they take it out, now that sh** cost more/ Racism never dies, we work less and we lost more/ King & X are thinking man, is this what we fought for/ Young and i don't really understand fully/ And just because I'm honest,they choose to overlook me/ Ain't no point of going to heaven with the goodie goodies/ Dressed in white, i like black times and black hoodies, Black Heaven