It’s a real bad time for black celebrities, they lockin everybody up:
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Michael Jackson, James Brown, Tupac, R. Kelly, OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson,
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Kobe Bryant, Jay-Z, Mystikal, P. Diddy, Allen Iverson, Snoop Dogg, DMX,
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Styles P, Shine, Beanie Segal, Lil’ Kim.
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[Hook:]
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Is it because I’m Black
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Is it because I’m Black
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When you black you got to hustle, got to struggle and strive.
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And not every cat that goes through that struggle survive.
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But we got to stay strong and keep the struggle alive.
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They say the struggle died, I say the struggle revived.
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A yo my profession is going through oppression.
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That’s why I’m so stressed and Im working with no rest,
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and no question ima fight for yall cause I don’t like it yall,
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te make half as much as them, we workin twice as hard yall.
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It aint fair sometimes you see and hear the signs, I aint Farachan
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But I got knowledge and I’m sharing mines. I swear its time to
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be aware that they fear you mind, and they fear your heart. You
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want to change heres the start. I’m tired of watching cops outline
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my peers in chalk, I’m trying to make a move, I’m not trying to make
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the news. It seems the consequences worst when we break the
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rules. To get back at right you got to make a sacrifice.
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[Hook:]
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Is it because I’m Black
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Is it because I’m Black
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We got some problems we need solved, heres our chance to get them handle.
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Just take the boycott in Alabama for example. They stop ridin the bus till they
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address their affairs. And they ended segregation there in less then a year. So imagine
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what our status if we made a contribution, we’ll probably be able to change the
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constitution. I cant see no other kind of solution we deserve our reparation, its
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time for a revolution. I’m a step ahead of Satan, I read it in Revelations. Forget
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your reputation, lets make it a better nation, cause they trying to cage us in,
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make us slaves again, eventually its meant to be the new plantation, the penitentiary.
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For centuries they had a plan we let them executed, everyday another brother getting
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executed. And all our artist getting arrested I aspect improvement. It’s a message
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in the music, I suggest you use it.
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[Hook:]
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Somebody tell me what can I do.
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Will I survive or will I die
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On the streets its hard to survive.
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Why, is it cause I’m black,
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Hosh I got rock, I cant bring my cousin back.
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Five-hundred thousand sold, gold, yeah it wasn’t plaque,
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but Clive gave me another try, cause I wasn’t whack.
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And now im buzzin back, yeah I got my budget back.
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Renegotiated got a mil to do a dozen tracks.
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Yea I’m eatin only reason is because I rap, my homies eatin only reason is because of crack.
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They cant get a job so them niggas quick to rob, quick to steal,
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quick to kill, grip the steal, quick to ride.
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Malcolm X, Martin Luther King we cant forget them guys.
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These politician, hypocrites they got us hypnotize.
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That why I kiss rip wild he got to lift our eyes.
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Cause if we keep’em close they just goin keep control.
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And hold our sisters and brothers in the pen and we was born guilty
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cause the color of our skin.
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The Message
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| Cassidy |
