I wrote this verse as a free write exercise steered by an idea that White America would think and behave the same way if stripped from their history, brainwashed to believe you're inferior, and forced to seek dependancy on the system.
The music is the same chords and progression from Musiq Soulchild's 'So Beautiful'. I played all the instruments via midi and recorded vocals, which were used for on another beat.
lyrics
Living in a world as a Black man
They wanna see me ghost like Pacman/
I backhand my way to stay,
Thinking bout Martin who paved the way/
Thinking bout X who held the K
Not afraid to say let the lead spray/
I segway for our dearly departed
Kimani Gray, Trayvon Martin/
My pardon this sound harshest
Blacks killed by correction officers/
Stop-n-frisk laws to meet quotas
Set by the bosses higher up/
In government office with their corporate sponsors
Laying out coffins/
Education suppression is a deadly weapon
When concealed from classrooms to the cell/
Pipeline of iniquity is bigotry
Check the media we're portrayed as the enemy/
Labeled terrorists for fight freedom
Look at Assata Shakur see fear is what they feed them/
Them being guards of the status quo
They being dreamers in the ghetto/
Kids with their heads slumped slow
Praying for hope on the front porch of their home/
Do the math take a look at the past
Look where we're at systematic gap/
Between Whites and Blacks, Whites and Hispanics
Whites and Natives one would swear that they hate us/
In the city poor communities is what they gave us
We only equal on constitution papers/
In the city poor communities is what they gave us
In stead of a mule and them 40 acres/
credits
from Misc. Singles,
track released September 5, 2013
All music produced and recorded by Danami
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