[00:21.538]Black Cotton, Black Cotton
[00:33.345]Black Cotton – a symbol for unrewarded struggle
[00:37.420]Time for a little gospel tale
[00:39.693]Ghetto gospel, that is, listen!
[00:45.832]Rotten Black Cotton in God's eyes
[00:50.795]Speak!
[00:53.094]Black cotton, steady stressin', Smith & Wessons, count my blessings
[00:56.072]Class is in session: the worst question is the first question
[00:58.971]Why do we work like slaves sweatin' blades to an early grave?
[01:02.158]Never got paid but still we slave (in the nine tre'
[01:05.006]Answer that, then answer this too
[01:07.043]Love's gonna get ya, you know it's true – life's a bitch, true?
[01:10.204]You best to backtrack and try to act black and live
[01:12.790]Not to be phony and positive but why be negative?
[01:15.742]What's the matter, G? Black cat got your tongue?
[01:18.354]Fat track got you sprung, now you're hung?
[01:20.183]Do ya feel me? Dum dum diddy, is it me?
[01:23.187]Attempt to reach each and every brother on the streets
[01:26.661]If not peace, then at least let's get a piece
[01:29.665]I'm tired of seein' bodies on the streets deceased
[01:32.486]Lookin' through my highschool yearbook
[01:34.968]Reminiscin' of the tears as the years took
[01:37.868]One homie, two homie, three homies – POOF!
[01:41.107]We used to have troops, but now there's no more youth to shoot
[01:44.189]God, come save the misbegotten
[01:46.723]Lost ghetto souls of Black Cotton (in God's eyes)
[01:49.388]Nobody don't care (No matter how hard I try
[01:51.216]Look to the sky, and I ask God why)
[01:54.273]Nobody don't care (Seems like my dreams
[01:57.120]Drowned in by screams, no answer to my questions)
[02:00.098]Nobody don't care (Feels like I'm pressed
[02:02.788]Why do I stress? It's like I'm bein' tested)
[02:05.427]Nobody don't care (Seems like my prayers
[02:08.666]Vanished in thin air, please answer my questions)
[02:11.200]Nobody don't care
[02:12.088]In the belly of the beast I'm bubblin' up
[02:14.517]Runnin' out of luck, about to self-destruct
[02:17.548]Old heads say live your life like such
[02:20.264]You're sure to catch her with your one-day boy
[02:22.250]I wouldn't listen to 'em
[02:23.530]Your power movement was cool, but it ain't fix nothin'
[02:26.560]So I just go with what I know, I don't trust none
[02:29.198]Look what the 80's did to us baby kids
[02:32.281]And now we grown up, nobody ain't own us yet
[02:34.997]Black cotton, I'm plottin' on what they owe me
[02:36.695]I'm workin' without a profit, they shacklin' all my homies
[02:39.308]I'm hurtin', but keep in mind, it ain't irkin'
[02:41.424]And we ain't stop, it's curtains
[02:42.677]You try to rise and certainly we survive with Outlaw Ridaz
[02:46.047]What's the reward for a struggler?
[02:47.876]If the Lord lovin' us, then why they hate to see us comin' up?
[02:51.220]Runnin' up, gun cocked, black mask and gloves
[02:54.067]If you ain't got a penny, mind the glove, no love
[02:56.966]Waitin' for my 40 acres and a blunt to blaze
[02:59.657]Biblical times, good hearts with milita minds
[03:02.635]Black Cotton – I'm hoppin' over enemy lines
[03:05.273]Black Cotton – I ain't stoppin' till they givin me mine
[03:08.095]Black Cotton
[03:09.087]Nobody don't care (No matter how hard I try
[03:10.028]Look to the sky, and I ask God why)
[03:13.371]Nobody don't care (Seems like my dreams
[03:15.984]Drowned in by screams, no answer to my questions)
[03:19.040]Nobody don't care (Feels like I'm pressed
[03:21.809]Why do I stress? It's like I'm bein' tested)
[03:24.708]Nobody don't care (Seems like my prayers
[03:27.373]Vanished in thin air, please answer my questions)
[03:30.246]Nobody don't care