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Yeah, yeah, ahem |
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Yeah, I woke up feeling black couldn't be better |
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Son woke up with that shine couldn't beat the weather |
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Son woke up feeling fly didn't need a feather |
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These the letters, me, a G forever, you get a e for effort |
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Don't lower case me, no don't play me that's a big G |
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Been moving 88 keys a week since I was 15 |
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Sunday morning special, ebony, and ivories |
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You can find me with the bands while the choir sings |
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Frankly, it's understood, I ain't Frank Lucas, even less Underwood |
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I'm more Frank Kay, next to where Laurence stood |
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That's a hey, whole choir boy from the hood |
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Yeah I'm from the same soil as Gloria James' son |
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Gassin' my hood up, my oil need a change, uh, ain't nothing |
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3:30 ain't the time it's the code, 3:30 ain't a line it's my mode |
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I think I'm gettin' back to the old me |
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Without that Cali boy, really you don't know me |
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Had to get the rings so I left |
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Still home, got it inked on my left |
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Walkin' in like I'm the man of the year |
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Heard a lot of no, now I'm the man of the yeah |
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It's no problem that the Trinity can't answer back to |
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Big 3 over my head so please don't Chance The Rapper |
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I'm back bruh |
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I woke up feeling black, proud to be out here |
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The crew is stacked, ain't just me out here |
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Who is that? Homie Kareem out here |
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More than some tees out here |
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We screaming, "We out here" |
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Gotta find a way to monetize black twitter |
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So they gotta pay if they tryna laugh with us |
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Eyes on the prize, are we there yet? Nope |
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Eyes to the skies, what you staring at? Hope |
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I think I'm getting back to the old me |
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That "screw your man-tan, new age, minstrel show" me |
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Not bamboozled everything black God given |
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So when they tell me, "Fall back" Y'all tripping |
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The narratives ain't similar, they parallel |
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On heaven as it is on earth, the paracletes to parasail |
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Reformed is not a label I want you to tag me with |
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The reformation was for Catholics not Africans |
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I'm black, some days too much |
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Feeling strapped, tryna pay bills with two bucks |
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Feeling wack, watching other cats move up |
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Feeling trapped, like you shooting craps, you stuck |
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Believe me, feel like an all day job, it ain't easy |
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Being black is dumb hard |
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Somebody always saying that we pull the race card |
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Then America turned around and pulled the Trump card |
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On guard when the squad car pop guns off |
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If you comply, resist, or you run off |
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See your one crime is your skin, if your tone's dark |
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You're the lead role, getting killed on the film, with the phone's out |
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Whose the next victim getting screwed by the system |
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Would they dig you a grave, or would they make you a slave |
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Dirt cheap tombstone or 13th loophole just to make you behave |
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It's insane |