[00:26.210]God is great!
[00:34.900]Ghettos, America. U.S. to the izzay
[00:38.550]Killa in the citywide sprizzay
[00:41.450]Where there's sunshine in the shizzade
[00:43.390]Church won't pull him out the pin like a grenade
[00:46.910]For acting out their fears like a charade
[00:49.310]'Til they blackin' out their tears like it's lights out
[00:52.750]Bring em out the black like a lighthouse
[00:55.630]And wave to em before they wiped out
[00:58.550]Lifesaver, threw em, hope they catch it
[01:00.820]But it's so Titanic to be iced out
[01:04.110]That's just scratching the surface like triple axels
[01:06.860]Want to roll around that Bentley like Crystal Castles
[01:10.460]In addition to the chain
[01:12.270]That's just to take the attention from the pain
[01:15.510]Or is it the mission of the man
[01:17.920]Audubon Ballroom, Motel Lorraine
[01:20.980]Now white people, they can't say nigga
[01:27.370]So I gotta take it back
[01:31.590]Now black people, we're not niggas
[01:38.830]God made us better than that
[01:43.070]No break, ah wait
[01:44.900]Little mayhem for your All-State, nay ham, all steak
[01:48.440]Get a good ball great like a golf grade
[01:50.940]Make the ball break
[01:51.930]Just one swing, no putting
[01:54.040]That's how I try 'n does things always
[01:56.880]Especially when your past is
[01:58.360]Martin, Baldwin, Audubon Ballroom
[02:01.330]Turn the glass ceiling to a glass floor
[02:03.630]Make a trampoline out of trapdoor
[02:06.440]On that gasoline when I was back poor
[02:09.320]Now they crafted out my dream underneath a tap floor
[02:12.240]Backpack battle-cat underground rap lore
[02:14.710]Anonymous but dominant - what's a Mac to a hacker
[02:17.820]In other words, lyrical Zuckerbergs
[02:20.110]Pimp you may move a mouse but what's a rat to a cat store
[02:23.840]It's like a gig to an app store
[02:25.590]I rap Black history, you can only see my past if you fast forward
[02:29.510]Now white people, they can't say nigga
[02:35.820]So I gotta take it back
[02:40.160]Now black people, we're not niggas
[02:47.520]God made us better than that
[02:52.480]Black Panthers, black anthems, black blues
[02:55.070]With black answers for black stanzas: Langston Hughes
[02:58.470]Breaking rules, ain't it cool?
[03:01.300]Took it old, and made it new
[03:03.750]Black painters, musical black anger
[03:06.410]Black mothers, beautiful black anchors
[03:09.290]So let's hear it for 'em! Let's hear it for 'em!
[03:12.490]Let's hear it for 'em! Let's hear it for 'em!
[03:15.300]Black America! Trap America!
[03:17.840]80s Babies! Crack America!
[03:20.710]Rap America! Bad as Erykah!
[03:23.610]From the era of family tearing up
[03:26.290]But we just won big, can't be undid
[03:29.220]Form a whole culture in just one kid
[03:32.180]Miami dope boys, Oakland militants
[03:35.020]Harlem Renaissance it's our deliverance
[03:37.830]Now white people, they can't say nigga
[03:44.410]So I gotta take it back
[03:48.570]Now black people, we're not niggas
[03:55.960]God made us better than that