My life in America, land of free ice cream and perpetual sunshine
[Verse 1]
Me a couple my homies, stop for breakfast at Shoneyâs
Tryin to fuck wit these shawties, than the Lord they donât know me
We from public housing, we turn the shit to 3000
You can say we hood, fitted under my hood
We just minding our business, coppers stoppin and frisk us
Young black an ambitious, so I guess thatâs acting suspicious
Demonize my culture, criminalize my kin
Djezuz Djonez done told ya, they hatin on my skin
Hit the AM/PM, cop gas and three Black & Milds
Cracker run up on me, tellin me to turn my shit down now
I roll my windows back up, turn the music back up
Cause we ainât botherin nobody, these crackers fuckin with us
This asshole gone lose it, if I keep playing my music
We just some high school students, and this the way that we do it
We ainât fuckin with you and donât no why the fuck is you shootin
Stand your ground is sounding confusing, when you the one thatâs pursuing
[Chorus]
These three degrees mean NOTHING!
These Phdâs ainât NOTHING!
If you ainât white, fuck your rights
They take ya life like its NOTHING!
Just take ya life like its NOTHING!
If you ainât white, fuck Human Rights
They take ya life like its NOTHING!
[Verse 2]
Try to cop a box of cigarelloâs
Put a couple of spots on my halo
Couple of blocks from the bodego
Cop stop to get his hate on
Iâm black and thatâs who they hate on
In fact the cracker ainât take long
To shoot to kill and Iâm unarmed,
Said he feared for life, but got a gun on
I fast and pray that when Iâm gone
My daddy spends his life
Fillin morgues with cops galore
His daughters, sons, his wife
No civil suits, no protests
No hollow speech from the POTUS
Just hollow-points, and broken joints
Cause my black life is worth no less
REPEAT CHORUS
[Verse 3]
Nahhh, I ainât no gangster, never been no thug
Never did no bid, never sold no drugs
Shit my grade point average, I mean my GPA
Done jumped to 4.0, but I was good at 3.8
So why these crackers be hating?
They quick to say that Iâm banging
They criminalize my friends
so they can shoot and claim self defense
They shootin me with impunity but they soon to see what they did
He was only twelve just a kid, she never reached her eighth year
He was at a Wal-Mart when a cracker called saying for my life Iâm in fear
They can take my life when they scared, So, they pretend to be scared
Being black it ainât safe here
you can ignore the facts or be clear (Yo!)
Iâm just being sincere, this here is where the sin sears
I just want to go home, please â leave me da fuck alone
Six cops illegal choke-holds, cell phones captured video
Now I canât breathe and Iâm gone
Police corruption exposed
Still no trial and Iâm six feet down
While my seeds pray over my soul