[Sample: Reporter]
"What has been happening in Ferguson is appalling
The people there are fed up with being under martial law
And they are seeing that a police state is being built up around them
Like we are the terrorists and we are the enemies
Listen to the community's righteous rage
When one member there goes on an epic rant..."
[Sample: Angry citizen]
[...but we're gonna still go through this
But when I come out here at 9 o'clock in the morning
To take my grandma to the doctor
I gotta show three forms of I.D....three times....and I don't have it
That's why I'm mad]
[Police officer and citizen argue]
It all means nothing
[Verse 1 : Jeffrey the Artist]
I'm walking rebellion
Steady inhaling the hell that we in
Polluted bullsh**
Government handing out all these full clips
They aiming right at our brothers
Mothers,sisters,fathers,daughters
Sleeping lions dressed as sheep
For the slaughter
Got me thinking I oughta' act up
Like they want me to do
These demons already been haunting a dude
If they want me they getting a monster or two
Gemini, just look in my eyes
I'm bonkers it's true
Ain't scared of d**h cuz I've been so alive
If my tribe finna go then the boy finna ride
Same with the change, it comes from inside
Cross the divide
Enter your mind, tune up your soul
Mental control, spark up the bowl
Sit down and just medicate
Stick with our tribe and levitate
Here to inspire and educate
God rose from the earth to elevate
This whole rap just set a date, we gon' stay above the hate
Clear your ego just shed the weight
Always keeping them meds to bake
People who divided in section 8
Come together no time to wait
Stand for something or die for nothing
Cops out here they k** for nothing
No more cuffing, pulling triggers
They k**ing children, no bluffing
[Sample]
Interviewer: "What do you think needs to be changed in the way black men are policed in America"
Young Thug: "Leave that up to the critics and the laws and all that other sh**. We having fun, we iced out, we having money, that's how we doing it"
Interviewer: "You feel like it's not the artist's place to speak on social issues?"
Young Thug: "No."
[Soundbite of Kajieme Powell being shot 9 times]
[Bystanders]
Damn!
Oh my God
[Verse 2 : Memnon The Black]
I done seen a lot of people go the wrong way
No pity, count em as a lost soul
Took a second to reflect now make way
Everybody in my squad has one goal
Educate with the hope that one day
We'll see with the first eye we tried
But we died, check this
Two sodas, shot 3x3 times
Makes no sense
Shot down by the ones who should protect
I project
My voice from the peak of the mountain
Cloaked up like a muhfuggin shaman
So dark but I'm fighting for the light now
Outrun? No sir you are outdone
Tell my n***as they should ready up right now
I don't really give a f** about the outcome
So sorry to Brother Malcolm
Haven't done enough, we done let him down
If he's got it rough, you should help him out
It's wrong just to hit him with a 100 rounds
Wanna tell 'em but they never really come around
Only out and about when it's going down
They use and abuse the power
Them bullets paid for with tax dollars
Guns provided by yours truly
Martial law? I need an army too
Sun is gone, storm clouds are moving
Dangerous no matter what we do
We are not safe so be not confused
And listen in to this righteous rage
If you not liking this conversation
I suggest you stay out my way
If you not liking this conversation
I suggest you stay out my way
X2
[Sample]
"...Who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement
And who at worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."