(feat. Bilal)
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[Hook]
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Can't come around
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They gon' wanna bring you down
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No one knows just what's inside
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Doing dope and doing time
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Why they messing with your mind
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Black maybe...
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[Common]
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I heard a white man's yes
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Is a black maybe
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I was delivered in this world
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As a crack baby
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Hard for me to pay attention
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And I act crazy
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Gotta get over from the tip
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I watch the fat lady sing a song
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On how we guerillas in warfare
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And I'm the kingest kong
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They say we dreamin wrong
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Them same strips that them older cats lingered on
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Now the walgreens is gone
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Hope is killed fiends are born
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We leanin on a wall that ain't that ain't stable
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Its hard to turn on the hood that made you
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To leave We afraid to the same streets that raised you
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Can aid you. What other black births came suit
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the rage up in harlem and the southside
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Brothers is starving with there mouth wide open
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Floating across state got the workout plans so they can move weight
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The fate of the black man, woman, and child maybe
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[Hook - 2X]
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[Common]
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He had game since he used to hoop at chattum
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Neither the ghetto nor defenders could trap him
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The stones had his back and they'd pat him
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He was living a life they couldn't fathom
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Colleges getting at him with all type of scholarships
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Even if he went they knew he'd leave college quick
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For the pros the one from the hood that was chose
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The black rose that grew in the jungle
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But humble stud still had rumble in his blood
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Women all around giving him trouble love
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You know the love when you up they down
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Cause you wrap a ball they round
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Your win is their crown
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Dudes in the circle he known for years
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Shared beers and cheers but chose different careers
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when paper and fame came they ain't know how to react
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Them same studs shot him in the back
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Now that's black...maybe
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[Hook - 2X]
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[Common - talking]
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When we talk about black maybe
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We talk about situations
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Of people of color and because you are that color
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You endure obstacles and opposition
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And not all the time from...from other nationalities
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Sometimes it come from your own kind
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Or maybe even your own mind
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You get judged..you get laughed at..you get looked at wrong
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You get sighted for not being strong
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The struggle of just being you
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The struggle of just being us..black maybe
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black maybe...
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[Hook]
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U, Black Maybe
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