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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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4. |
Like an Animal
05:46
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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
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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
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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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12. |
I'm Buying a Gun
04:26
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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
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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
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American Dream 2020
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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
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American Dream 2020
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