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It's times to like this when all that pain begins to reminisce
Good people they mislabeled as some menaces
Accusations get you killed without no evidence
Built these countries up but to this day ain't reep no benefits

Like f*ck is up
These people they aim at us
They killing us when we cuffed
Going crazy this life get f*cked damn

No time to pick and choose
Don't pick us for no interviews
Flame us on the news then paint these pictures that we never drew

You could see it on our faces that it hurt
Mama torn apart, her baby just got taken from this earth
They don't wanna see us thrive they rather see us in that dirt
Brothers on the shirt
Will I make it out ? Will i get murked?
Man

We got these vices for pain
Mind really feeling deranged
System twisted still I get uplifted when hoping for change
Put us in that rope that they hope they can hang
Put us that rope that they hope they can hang

Bridges they burn and they burn
Pages just turn and they turn
Smoking swishes we know that black wishes ain't given they earned
This life ain't free got us working for certain
This life ain't free man we working for certain

All of us we wanna shine
Pennies that turned to a dime
Only if this life paid back that interest we gave with our time
We painting pictures they paint it as crime
We painting pictures they paint it as crime

They talk about arrest
But they don't kill the rest
Treat us as less so we come swinging just like Malcolm X
They don't treat us like we people treat us more like pests
Said he couldn't breathe but he still kept his knee down on his neck

Like f*ck em all
They calling it protocol
After all we the ones with our backs up against the wall
We doing everything that we can just to get involved
Police leave a nigga dead on the pavement and get absolved

Man its f*cked
Realizing we stuck
They said I'm pushing my boundaries
I'm really pushing for love
I'm just praying for strength man I pray to god up above
Just let my people dub
You know we came out the mud
We sick and tired of the snub

This shit ain't bluffing man
My niggas really suffering
Never had belief for all them people in that government
And all we want is freedom for our people
Treat us more like equals
Sick of being treated as beneath you
Yeah

We got these vices for pain
Mind really feeling deranged
System twisted still I get uplifted when hoping for change
Put us in that rope that they hope they can hang
Put us in that rope that they hope they can hang

Bridges they burn and they burn
Pages just turn and they turn
Smoking swishes we know that black wishes ain't given they earned
This life ain't free got us working for certain
This life ain't free man we working for certain

All of us we wanna shine
Pennies that turned to a dime
Only if this life paid back that interest we gave with our time
We painting pictures they paint it as crime
We painting pictures they paint it as crime