My People (feat. Jay Rock)

Song My People (feat. Jay Rock)
Artist Kendrick Lamar
Album My People - Single

Lyrics

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[00:00][00:06][00:11][00:17][00:22][01:06][01:11][02:11][02:16][03:17][03:22] My people don't love me
[00:02] Why we hate each other?
[00:04] Why we kill our brothers, why we hurt our mothers?
[00:08] We can love one another
[00:09] We should stick together because we're all we got
[00:13] Why we ride on another, need to love one another
[00:16][03:54] We all we got
[00:19] I said we all we got, I swear to God dog we all we got
[00:23] This whole world's spillin' senseless killing
[00:26] Universe beyond evil, one topic to serve
[00:29] Be my black people, we be missing the point like Shaq's freethrow
[00:33] Sean Taylor, life gone because of haters
[00:36] A nigga he known tried home invasion, went wrong
[00:38] Bullet penetrated his leg, femur bone
[00:41] Days later, wake arrangements, flowers to be catered
[00:44] That was so impatient, take him from the next man
[00:47] Cause he ain't got the will to hustle like he can
[00:50] Niggas would rather steal than think of a righteous plan
[00:53] To get residuals, kill for dividends
[00:55] This life is critical, we living in a time where
[00:58] 9-year olds tote 9's
[01:00] Turn 10, it's Mac 10's and coke lines
[01:03] I wonder why successful black man gotta die from a black man
[01:08][02:13][03:18] Why everywhere I go I got to accumulate some hate?
[01:13][02:18][03:24] Genocide all we know shit, we basically in the KKK
[01:17][02:22][03:27] OK-K-K, I'm trying to make my cake
[01:19][02:25][03:30] But every time I turn around you take it from me
[01:22][02:27][03:33] Black people don't love me
[01:24][02:29][03:35] Hate each other we do each other wrong
[01:26][02:31][03:37] That's why today, black people let's love we
[01:30] Can't be a positive black role model
[01:32] Leading the future with no haters to follow
[01:34] Now that's ****ed up, if I ever wanna see
[01:37] Success, I gotta see death? Be famous for what?
[01:40] He aiming for higher learning, you aiming to shoot him down
[01:42] He flying straight, you wanna u-turn him
[01:45] You burn your brother's bridges
[01:46] His accomplishments making way for your children
[01:49] Still you don't compliment, inconsiderate black pride
[01:52] No never been, never win, gotta lose
[01:55] That's the slope that's for the black heritage
[01:56] We play the fool better than comedians
[01:58] Disobediant dude no respect, ethics
[02:02] I refuse to be a statistic
[02:04] But changing my community don't seem realistic
[02:06] Show me an African American doing right
[02:09] I'll show you one that will kill his ass tonight
[02:34] We stuck together back in slavery days
[02:36] Martin and Malcolm them dudes paved the way
[02:39] The bullshit we doing, I know they're turning over in their graves
[02:42] The shit need to stop today
[02:44] Yeah the die for the cause, some like Jesus for us
[02:47] To become better people, think about it
[02:51] We used to run from the KKK
[02:53] But now we running from our brothers that be holding them k's
[02:56] Man, never thought there'd be days like this
[02:58] Can't trust your homies that you're hanging with
[03:01] Damn shame, why you kill a nigga over a chain
[03:03] When you could get up on your hustle and get the same thing
[03:06] United we stand tall, divided we all fall
[03:10] Let's leave this bullshit behind y'all
[03:12] On the real, the envy and the hate need to stop
[03:15] Black people we all we got
[03:40] Y'all better wake up and smell the coffee
[03:43] We all we got man
[03:45] It's black on black killing each other man it needs to stop
[03:49] Real talk
[03:51] Black people need to smarten up