Black To The Future

For all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years

the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Ay, don't look at me different cause the color of my skin

Is what you see on the outside, it's not within, it's a sin

To judge or hold a grudge against your kin and your friends

We just trying to live and make some ends

When does it end? They killing on CNN

We protesting, do it over again, and we can't win

I'm getting tired of it, finna bend around the corner with my friends

With weapons breaking them in, yeah

And anybody need help, take them in

You worry about it, you try to come save an end

You ain't gonna do it, you protecting and serving, you gotta prove it

Hurry up, skip, skip, let's get it, come on, move it

Straight up, cause the clock still ticking

The cops still killing, and a lot of real ones feeling

Gotta kill it, or we gonna be tripping in any minute

But I don't care, you can tell them that we did it, yeah

We must provide and protect the life of yours, of mine, the black future

We must provide and protect the life of yours, of mine, the black future

I paint the sky blue, but still a black boy

Comfy in the skin that I'm in, you think we black, boy

Breaking stereotypes through sound bites

I forgot the crime pipes, that's black like brown types

Chocolate boy and proud, my spirit is not destroyed

My kind you cannot avoid

We still here, and beautiful, like the woman who adopted me

An ebony queen who dreams properly

Blackest, gladdest night on that midnight train

Durag over the dome, sound waves in the brain

Mind of Huey with the swagger of Riley

Came from the boondocks, raised off of the tribe

In Ice Leagues in Venice, the soulless within us

I ain't talking Sunday dinner, melanated on the surface and the center

Some view us as sinners, but we winners, no pretenders

The original vendors of black splendor, remember

We must provide and protect the life of yours, of mine, the black future