[Verse 1]
I'm always hard working at working hard
Still I feel I never play my part
Always tryna be a better brother but my sister look at me like I'm a star
Always try to be a better son, but my momma tell me that I do enough
Bro's from the hood hit my phone and they always say I don't come thru enough
I wonder which is true?
At times I feel I got so much to do I don't know what to do
n***as think I'm living comfortable but being comfortable is uncomfortable, I'm tryna' do more
Rarely ever do I sleep in
Rarely ever do I sleep at all
It's harder dreaming since a n***a cut back on alcohol, got to many thoughts
Wonder if I might die at my next traffic stop
Wonder if I stay on break to long writing songs, will I lose my job?
Wonder if I even give a f**
I Know my boss, he don't give a f**
I'm really just another dark skin n***a he can use to make money from
Think I don't notice?
Think I don't notice?
Think I don't notice all the side eyes every time another n***a die on the channel 6 news by the hands of the cops
Then they leave his dead Black body in the middle of the Black road and all the Black people gotta watch
What you think that do to a n***a?
What you think it do to us n***as?
When they feel the only way they gon' stay safe is k**ing more n***as
When I feel the only way I'm gon' stay safe is being dead
Why America find it so hard to let me live?
[Verse 2]
No more hanging out the window with them 9 millimeters
Where I'm from they run up on you on your porch with the heaters
Ain't just n***as k**ing n***as
Yoppers out here banging
Undercover cops on the corner crack slanging
If you think that we the problem, well my n***a tell me something
How it's cops on every block and the d** still coming?
n***as still dying
Crime still peaking
Increasing the policing, what my people need is freedom
Talking jobs and education
f** incarceration
Modern day plantation
Caught up in the Matrix
Neo whipping yola in the basement, Niobe t**ng
Morpheus packing the metal for them agents lurking
n***as tryna play Smith catch a Smith and Wesson
Tryna say I'm born cursed but my skin a blessing
Danny Glover with the flow, I got them lethal weapons
Even straight out of the bottle they won't get the message