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[00:21.00]My male role models drug dealers and thugs
[00:24.00]My father learned how to solve problems with guns
[00:26.51]And when I grew up I learned what racism was
[00:29.02]And what teaching it does
[00:30.35]And like my teachers would say
[00:31.66]"Little black boys have a place in the world"
[00:34.45]Like hanging from trees
[00:35.57]Or dead in the street like I seen on TV
[00:38.42]All them boys they killed, they looked just like me
[00:40.93]Not like Brandon or Chandler, but Malik and Kareem
[00:43.62]I was born with a target, and it stuck to my skin
[00:46.26]And I learned in social studies I was one of them men
[00:49.08]Who were locked in the chains, but not locked in the pen
[00:51.56]But I'm bigger than that, I'm the beginning and end
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[00:54.72]I'm the sun and the moon
[00:55.61]I'm the light and the dark
[00:57.02]I am life in the tomb
[00:58.27]I'm the pharaoh and slave
[00:59.66]Gentrifying my spirit
[01:00.89]It's like a knife in the womb
[01:02.19]Refuse to act like a parrot
[01:03.60]Or to dance like a monkey
[01:05.25]See your stance is apparent
[01:06.48]That's why I'm here for the money
[01:07.63]Don't care to cater to Mary
[01:08.91]I'm fetishizing my spirit
[01:10.24]I see your culture’s dependent
[01:11.62]On what you didn’t inherit
[01:12.85]Won't let my world be attempted
[01:14.16]I'm staying distant
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[01:25.47]Who gonna be the reason why I get high
[01:28.05]Who gonna be the reason why I turn over
[01:30.77]Who gonna be the gunner that I don't trust
[01:33.25]Who gonna be the gunner that get they ass whooped
[01:36.07]Who gonna be the reason why I get high
[01:38.66]Who gonna be the reason why I turn over
[01:41.25]Who gonna be the gunner that I don't trust
[01:43.88]Who gonna be the gunner that get they ass whooped
[01:46.65]Who gonna be the reason why I get high
[01:49.29]Who gonna be the reason why I turn over
[01:51.85]Who gonna be the gunner that I don't trust
[01:54.62]Who gonna be the gunner that get they ass whooped
[01:57.28]Who gonna be the reason why I get high
[01:59.90]Who gonna be the reason why I turn over
[02:02.59]Who gonna be the gunner that I don't trust
[02:05.25]Who gonna be the gunner that get they ass whooped
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[02:08.52]Bum, bum, beat 'em, I would never wanna be 'em
[02:10.55]If I catch 'em slipping they gon' have to meet the eagle
[02:13.19]Bum, bum, beat 'em, treat these ****** how I see 'em
[02:15.83]I don't need you either, send you right back where I seen ya
[02:18.57]Bum, bum, beat 'em, I would never wanna be 'em
[02:21.19]If I catch 'em slipping they gon' have to meet the eagle
[02:23.90]Bum, bum, beat 'em, treat these ****** how I see 'em
[02:26.52]I don't need you either, send you right back where I seen ya
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[02:40.18]In the game
[02:46.47]Running things
[02:50.71]In the game
[02:55.98]Running things