| Yeah
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| You know
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| Uhuh
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| Only fools penalize anyone who thinks different
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| They demonize all the ideas and don’t listen
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| Defeated paradigm, still push without thinking
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| So they can vandalize what the architect’s building
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| While I strategize ways I can be the victor
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| They wanna glamorize ways they can be the victim
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| Being founded by but claiming that they hate the system
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| But never wonder why things never get different
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| They say we getting gentrified out the inner city
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| But can’t nobody make you leave when you own a building
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| If we prioritize ownership, we could end it
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| But we distracted by racism and can’t see it
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| So who’ll sacrifice for the next generation
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| Who’s prepared to die to execute their own vision
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| While y’all run and hide, I’ll be in the front
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| 'Cause a coward dies a thousand times, a hero dies once
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| Uh, nothing empowering in anything that they speaking
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| I see them paralyzed by the news and television
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| They overanalyze and normalize their own killings
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| Instead of changing themselves, they try to change the system
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| You been demonized, realize and then admit it
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| Sabotaged by your own and the opposition
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| Violent crimes once they took the fathers out the picture
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| Neighborhoods terrorized by their own children
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| We need to organize the neighborhoods that we live in
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| Keep the economics, leave all the politicians
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| Build a family so they don’t have to build prisons
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| 'Cause we can only change us, not racism
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| So who’ll sacrifice for the next generation
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| Who’s prepared to die to execute their own vision
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| While y’all run and hide, I’ll be in the front
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| 'Cause a coward dies a thousand times, a hero dies once |