Common - ABFF (Freestyle) lyrics

[Verse 1: Common] Hot damn, black America again Think of Sandra Bland as I'm starin' in the wind The color of my skin, they comparin' it to sin The darker gets the less fairer it has been The hate, the hate made, I inherited from them But I ain't gon' point the finga We got annoyed singas (singers) Like Nina, Marvin, Billie, Stevie Need to hear them songs Sometimes to believe me Who freed me, Lincoln or Cadillac? Drinkin' or battle raps? Or is it God's speed that we travel at Endangered in our own habitat Them guns and dope, man y'all can have it back As a matter (of) fact, we them lab rats You built the projects for, now you want ya hood back I guess if you could rap, you would express it too That PTSD, we need professionals You know what pressure do, it makes the pipes bust From schools to prison y'all, they tryna pipe us 'Til you're political parties invite us Instead of voting laws in spite us You know, you know we from a family of fightas (fighters) Fight in, our wars and your wars, you put a n***a in Star Wars Maybe you need two, and then maybe then we'll believe you See black people, in the future, we weren't shipped here To rob and shot ya We hold these truths ta (to) be self-evident All men and women are created equal, including black Americans Yeah, that's black America again [Verse 2: Common] We go here, we go here, here we go again Trayvon 'ill never get to be an older man Black children, they childhood stole from them Robbed of our names and our language, stole again Who stole the soul from black folk? Same man that stole the land from cheap black smoke And made the whip crackle on our back slow Made us go through the back door And raffle black bodies on the slave blocks Now we slaves to the blocks cause on 'em we spray shots Leavin' our own to lay in a box Black mothers' stomach stay in a knots We k** each other, more than the cops I wish the hatin' would stop We are at war, in a battle with us I know that black lives matter, do they matter to us? These are the things we gotta discuss The new plantation, ma**-incarceration Instead of educate, they'd rather convict the kids As dirty as the water in Flint, the system is Is it a felony? or a misdemeanor? Maria Sharapova makin' more than Serena It took Viola Davis to say this The roles of the help and the gangstas is really all they gave us We need [?], [?], and Cory Bookers The salt of the Earth, they get the salt with sugar And greasy foods, I don't believe the news Or radio, stereotypes we refuse Brainwashed into cyclone to spin We write our own story, black America again