Friends

Y'all just protest and post on social media

Maybe I can help

Can I say a little something?

I come from Atlanta

You know the Black Mecca?

Dr. King was born a street away from me

I think about the days when

I was a younger me

Hungry, in the streets rummaging

And I was naïve, cuz I sang at the top of my lungs

We'll fight, fight, with my friends

Oh, there's something I gotta tell you though

It's a little bit of a miracle

I took the boat but I didn't even steer it yo

You brought us to the New World

And this is how you treat us folks?

And I thought about it everyday

I got a lotta hatred in my veins you say?

Instead of grabbin' a gat I put the words on a page

And sprayed

I organized a protest in the name of

Those who was slayed

Killed and maimed

And this is how we got played

So we were out there in the streets and my neighbor was there

And I guess a cop was pissed off or something

He pushed her to the ground

And started putting his handcuffs on her, she started screaming

So you motherfuckers think you can come and get us

Toss us into your vehicles

And arrest us

Cause you never think of our mental health

Or stability, or ability

Yeah

We built the United States for you

You can have the old money we only got new money

Though that's why we stick together collectively

Where is the empathy?

The FBI wanted MLK to die

That's a lot for right now

But here's the reason why I said it

Only when the white people came to march

With the civil rights mission

Is when the entire nation listened

Only after they battered a white preacher

Only after they killed Jimmie Lee Jackson

And dismantled our freedoms

Only after the police tear gassed and beat

Every black human being in the street