| I told y’all «Be about it»
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| Y’all like «I tweeted about it
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| Don’t be so mean about it
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| I’m down to read about it
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| You clicked that hashtag
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| You flipped that avi right?
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| Your fist is in the air
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| Can’t say I’m racist, right?»
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| A sorta-die-for-it martyr
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| You kinda with them
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| 'Cause most don’t notice the system
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| 'Til it turn against them
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| If what it takes is all of me
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| I’m still not who I’m meant to be
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| I’m holding back, I just relax
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| Indulging insecurities
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| Livin' a lie, livin' a lie
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| Apathetic
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| I’m complicit in the prejudice, it’s automatic
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| I take advantage being born into my demographic
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| But what’s a blessing when it generates a struggle of a color
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| For the privilege of another?
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| In my whitewashed tomb
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| I’ve become immune
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| Oh, my God, oh, my God
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| From my mother’s womb
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| I’m a whitewashed tomb
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| Oh, my God, oh, my God
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| If what it takes is all of me
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| I’m still not who I’m meant to be
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| I’m holding back, I just relax
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| Indulging insecurities
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| Livin' a lie, livin' a lie
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| Playin' with fire, playin' with fire
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| Livin' a lie, playin' with fire
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| If what it takes is all of me
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| I’m still not who I’m meant to be
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| When I react, I just retract
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| Avoiding all the gravity
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| Livin' a lie, livin' a lie
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| Playin' with fire, playin' with fire
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| Livin' a lie, playin' with fire
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| Area codes etched under layers of epidermis
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| Over carotid arteries to guarantee its permanence
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| Removal of it’s suicide, at this point it’s obvious
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| Close your browser
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| And young war zone, lose ya in Fallujah
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| I hope you find shelter 'fore them goons come bruise ya
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| And when the homies gain thrones, boy, it ain’t no game, bro
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| I shouldn’t how a body goes limp when it hangs, bro
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| But go’n close your browser
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| The luxury of the option of participation is great, right?
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| Man, this a great life
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| Man, we did something right
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| And I’ve struggled with hugging my daughters
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| Knowing homies who can’t no more
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| Enjoying the time I got
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| While living in the tension of the world’s imperfection
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| Locking in the sovereign reign of the King of All Kings
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| Trusting He’ll make right all things
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| He’ll make right all things
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| No one is safe from the gods we create
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| They all turn on us
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| No one escapes heaven’s justice unpaid
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| Have mercy now |