J.I.D - Skegee lyrics

Intro: JID] (See the storm) Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, uh (Over there) Yeah-yeah, uh (Here it comes) fu*k, check, dawg [Verse 1: JID] Take a chance, have faith, my lad You got all of the same tools all the greats have had Two eyes, two ears, one mouth, two hands You can watch, listen more than you speak, take advantage You peep all the karma that come with makin' the cream The crop, full of demons providin' you what you need They got, what's your thing? Alcohol or the lean? Put the coke inside the weed, them ni**as seasonin' the greens Rap game turned from the slingers to the fiends But I'm in between, I mean I ain't pickin' teams, but I had a dream like King fu*kin' on this pretty little bi-, queen, I mean Point me to the cheese, ni**as talkin' cream Park the car, I'm 'bout to part the seas And move a mountain for money, nothing keepin' me From gettin' to you, gettin' to me, Marvin G, Tammi T But get your eyes cleaned for something you have never not, not seen [Bridge] Okay, well Prior to coming to Tuskegee (Uh) From high school I went to college here, then Tuskegee Institute While in college I had a professor that I really impressed with He got me interested into politics He was the first black (Uh) councilman in the city of Tuskegee (Check) [Verse 2: JID] Take a chance, have faith, my lad You got all of the same tools all the greats have had Maybe lesser than that Way back when I was puttin' on my football hat This institution came recruitin' little Route for the stats They sat me in a room with my dad And it was cool but when they left I was glad And my pops was too, he said that's good-ass parenting Reminding me 'bout that place that did them ni**a experiments On them black people, sharecroppers, down in Alabama, damn It's not that far from Atlanta, it was the 1930s They did them black folks dirty because a tan A man was not a man, ni**a, your granny wasn't grand A scam into the plan to go recruit a group of stupid ni**as And shoot them up with syphilis instead of shoot to kill 'em That's stupid different The lengths that y'all trip to catch a ni**a slippin' and for what? 'Cause we look different? [Bridge] Everyone with knowledge of that study (Let us keep rockin' this sh*t) Would be terrified But that study represents and demonstrated The inhumanity of man to mankind (Yeah, yeah, yeah, ah, fu*k) I often say that Look [Verse 3: JID] Take a chance, have faith, you in last place Take a stand but don't take the stand for your man's sake Just a dad tryna put some ham on a damn plate I'll be damned, I don't feed the fam', ni**a (Damn straight) Elbow rubs and handshakes From hands that tied ropes on necks in red states Another dead black-ass man, I need a damn break They never gave us a chance, I had to take it I need all the payments, for every day we suffered all the hatred I want my granny to shoot the hands with Nancy Reagan I want emancipation Standin' naked at the auction with my dick out, hanging for reparations No matter how much I say it, they ain't hearin' my voice 'Cause as long as them crackers payin', you ain't much of a choice And you can shoot a million Js, you'll prolly never be Jordan ni**a ran for a million yards, you still forty acres short [Outro] See the storm Over there Here it comes