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American Dream 2020

by Black Shelton

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I wake up early in the morning, before sunrise, putting on My coffee stained shirt blue jeans,matched with sneakers I promise it’ll pay they say, As 5am winter winds attack my face,making holes in my face like the ones in my jeans. Work “Four times harder” they say You’ll almost make minimum wage You’ll be able to make rent they say. There is no time to play, theres no time to rest, growing up was my only means of survival $8 per hour, 6 hours per sleep. Sleepless nights in shelters filled with papers,essays, my child crying, reassuring myself, it was all for him,his future. Work “4 times harder” they say Promises and luck won’t help ya. As I sit at the church pews, asking both the lord and my ancestors to guide me, for they understood A system that does not want me. Bearing, their name on my tongue and their pain on my back. Work “Four times harder” they say Your headaches, back-pain will go away Numbed by advil and antidepressants that mixed with midnight tears, fears of the flickering lights, that mocked me, of my poor state, gunshots becoming the stars. As I cuddled with my child,holding him tightly, between his fingers, I gripped for hope,relief and momentary sedation. Work “4 times harder” they say Your net worth is 5$ total You’ll get out of it eventually You’ll get out of it eventually I did every day of my life “Four times harder” Created bars bars, bars ,bars, that trapped me reminded me,suffocated me,entrapped my being, chains cuffed around me As “master” mocked with freedom, integrity and safety. a black womyn like I Will never succeed unless I comply, While my grown sons body will be surrounded by these 4 bars of entrapment his fate and I are similar but not alike. No barriers but the projects, stoned together by poverty,drugs and violence Governmental systematic genocide of our black bodies. “Four times harder” is one, to be white two, to be male, three to be privileged four, to be American. Unreachable,unteachable,standards “A nigga with a book,should be feared” Unreachable,unteachable,standards that has trapped, the modern day Negro. Four times harder, say it, four times harder, echo echo echo, in the prison halls as the prison cells filled the bodies,dark as night,darkened minds believed in illusion, that four times harder Was reached, I am between these bars. Between that line, four hundred years Of struggle, that I will one day Redefined. -Hallima Docmanov ( 5/15/2015)
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I live in a gated community I live in a nice ass house with a big ass yard I got a million dollar wife and a million dollar car I live in a nice Christian neighborhood, not a black in sight So I know I can sleep safe at night Yeah I'm livin the American Dream Got my jar of dip and my m16 Standard issue, like they use in the marines But I use it to knock blacks off their feet, keep gays off my street, keep indians on the retreat, and keep the whites livin sweet American dream, don't you like it? American dream, don't you love it? American dream, wanna live it? American dream, gotta see it to believe it
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I saw the news report I heard the broadcast I picked up on the lies I wrote the feedback I saw the photographs You think you're such a funny guy You won't get away with that Gonna give you the punch line You're a joke and you're a fraud Who thinks he's got the mind of God Sound the alarm and call the dogs Gotta get your ass gone You treat me like an animal Locked up in a cage Mental and physical Can't trust a word you say I don't believe my eyes Drowning in the bullshit I need a new disguise This skin just doesn't fit Treat me like an animal Treat me like an animal I feel the beady eyes Looking me up and down It doesn't come as no surprise It's a close-minded one horse town You brainwash their broken minds Feed your shit into every home You want mass genocide I just want to be left alone You treat me like an animal Locked up in a cage Mental and physical Can't trust a word you say I don't believe my eyes Drowning in the bullshit I need a new disguise This skin just doesn't fit Treat me like an animal Treat me like an animal
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Call 911! Fuck 12! Rewind for the playback Bout time for the payback Lemme see you take your shot Never trust a crooked cop Lemme see your war face Cuz we live in a police state No ya can't sit and be complacent it's time to stand up and face it - can't erase it replace it rephrase it gotta chase it Got fear in the glovebox Watermelons on my socks I can tell by the way he move He's gonna have an attitude, might even be a nazi too It's criminal - subliminal the way they terrorize you I got a question for you boys in blue Yeah when you were a kid who smacked the shit outta you? And as years and decades all come and pass I'll still be standing up tall with my boot up 12's ass Call 911! Fuck 12! All of your attempts to nuetralize the youth gon brew the new divide, I choose the side of truth the fruit rotten to the root built up on exclusion exploit, capitalize, in every institution avoid blame, rewrite, now we all dissallusioned it’s doot doot dance dance for their amusement it’s new news, grand plans for the recruitment new noose damn Sam ain’t with the movement I guess nothing did it big man that big badge i ain’t fucking with it bitch made these my steps and I’m fucking sitting burn it all, I watch it fall, good fucking riddances napalm at the cop car dawg precinct going up in lot fire dawg wasnt fucking with the flag those are not my stars got the fibi at the crib criminal at large
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Parasite In my head Toss and turn In my bed Parasite In my guts Feel the burn Inchin up My throat My head My bed My view My vision My prison My hand The trigger That nigger Dead and cold Bought and sold That's the goal Parasite controlling my thoughts Got me livin under a rock Got me afraid of the dark People I see at the park Get em before they get me Convict em before they can speak Beat em so they can't stand Kick em out and take their land My fists My gun My fun No risks No hope Just rope Your life My hands Your neck Let it snap In my fists You shit
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Right Hook 03:45
If you ain't got the patience to say it But don't wanna back down You wanna get em educated But you can't get through to that clown You gotta hit em with a textbook And if they give you any lip Might have to hit em with a right hook Make em keep that shit zipped It's time to get a clue It's time to take the risk Does it mean anything to you That we're forced to live like this It's time to take that blue lives garbage And throw it in the trash If you got blue skin buddy, I hate to tell ya, but you got a fuckin rash It's time to take that blue lives bullshit And soak it in gas Light a match and shove it right up their homophobic, racist ass And burn a station to the ground And get some racists found - guilty On all accounts And deposit the full amount To a black families bank account
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Trust 05:53
I don't trust the thoughts that are in my mind I don't trust the world I don't trust the contract I just signed I don't trust my girl I don't trust the men who run my life I don't trust their toys I don't trust a man who cheats on his wife With underage boys I don't trust the government To do what's right They tamper with the evidence In the night I don't trust the government Will do their best They cater to the rich And they beat and kill all the rest I don't trust a man with a gun I don't trust the law I don't trust that they'll do what's gotta be done I don't trust my job Never trust the government When justice is at hand They'll get John Wayne as the judge Put Mark Furhman on the stand Hey! Never trust the government Don't give em too much They'll take advantage of ya Take your name, address, contacts, and gun I want my life back I wish I was a kid again I want my innocence back I've seen too many people lay dead Yeah who are you jack Your only goal in life Is to put down blacks So you got a job in the government You got a fascination for war - come work for the government You ever killed a nigger before? - come work for the government Do you want a really nice car? - come work for the government You want a good credit score? - come work for the government If you think the church is under attack - come work for the government If you think blacks should sit in the back - come work for the government Wanna bring confederate values back? - come work for the government If you got a really nice rack - be a secretary for the government
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Yeah I lie awake for hours But I ain't waitin on no calls I'm used to staying up for hours I hear the voices in the hall I hear you break down my door Hear you run up the stairs Break my shit and piss on my floor It's like you don't even care that you Rob me You rob me Rob me every night Rob me in my sleep Rob me in the night Rob me of my sleep And as the death toll towers I find it harder to sleep at night As my point of view sours I prepare to put up the fight When cops become cowards I find it harder to get out of bed Try to keep my thoughts inward But they're blowin up my head No I can't sleep Every night I lie awake and think of what to do A little more Malcolm a little more Martin Should I buy a gun or tell you that I love you? When you rob me Rob me You rob me You rob me And you rob me You rob me of my sleep Rob me every night Rob me Rob me Rob me
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I got my life in the backseat I got the wheel in my hand I got a cop right behind me He's got a thought and a plan I put my hand on the shifter He puts his hand on the gun Goes home and takes his hate for niggers Out on his wife and son I'm buying a gun Cuz he has one I'm buying a gun Cuz he has one To the people who say no abortion But say nothing about the cause Just wait till one of your little racist children Goes and gets his head blown off If you're shooting black We're shooting back If you're shooting black We're shooting back Gotta do something cuz you're doing nothin - sitting back We're taking the power you had - making it black
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Rebel 03:51
I'm lying on the ground Hearing you lie through your teeth Interpreting the sounds Gotta stay on my feet Can't stoop down To your level Only difference is the color of our skin And that you'll get a medal I'll put my pedal to the metal Time to take the test And you'll call us rebels You wonder why I don't hate Wonder why I'm saying words like, peace, justice, love When all you do is kill, and push, and shove You make fun of us and call us names You call us rebels You call us criminals Treat us like babies We'll treat you like the snake you are And we'll rebel Against the people who put us down Make us bury brothers in the ground Kill a boy who dreamed of being a woman Shoot a girl who just wanted to be a man You're taking the rights away from right And making it all wrong The rights only go to the whites Those days are long gone
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Life's a bitch Then you die But why should we die younger Than all the rich White guys All those big spenders Who dig the ditch For you and I While their bank is breaking They pay upfront for a Front row seat To watch a black boy's hanging American Dream 2020 Get a little press, blow off a little stress, punch some coloreds in the head and make some more money American Dream 2020 Get a little press, blow off a little stress, punch some coloreds in the head and make some more money They give a lead role to Jamie Foxx And think they're off the chopping block You can bump superstition as many times as you want to But won't change my position on you, it won't change my intuition on you They're livin the American Dream 2020 Get a little press, blow off a little stress, punch some coloreds in the head and make some more money American Dream 2020 Get a little press, blow off a little stress, punch some coloreds in the head and make some more money

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released November 26, 2020

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