| Kid: Hey dad I got in a fight with this white kid today at school
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| P: Son, didn’t I tell you I don’t want you fighting?
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| Kid: But he called me a nigga
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| I’m just a black man trapped in this white world (x5)
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| And this goes to every woman, man, boy, and girl
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| Its a shame when you can’t send your kids, to decent schools
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| We live in the world for the laws and no rules
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| Gang-bangers, crease sides, and chalk lines
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| Correctional facilities full of juveniles doin' petty crimes
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| In this ghetto, got me crazy
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| Sometimes I wish, mama wouldn’ta made me
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| But its a shame when you gotta raise a baby
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| And the color of my skin might taint me
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| I’m just a black man trapped in this white world (x3)
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| And this goes to every woman, man, boy, and girl
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| And all the money can’t change the color of your skin
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| Why so many blacks and Mexicans in the pen?
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| It is cause we VIOLENT?
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| But why Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and started smilin'?
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| So many people have dreams
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| But why society eliminated Martin Luther King?
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| And they tell us to be proud to be black
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| And at the same time Uncle John shoot us in the back
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| Independence, its a free country
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| No jobs, most blacks turn to street money
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| A bunch of ghetto full of drugs and alcohol
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| Where found history books about white laws
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| And Tommy Hilfiger discriminate
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| And sell us clothes
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| But we can’t blame him cause
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| We don’t support the black stores
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| And only God can judge or point the finger and what’s
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| White or black and red and blue equals gang banging
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| I’m just a black man trapped in this white world (x3)
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| And this goes to every woman, man, boy, and girl
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| (I'm just a black man
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| Trapped in this white world)
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| I’m colorblind, so Lord won’t you feel my pain
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| (Hold on, hold on
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| Trapped in this white world)
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| I’m colorblind, so Lord won’t you feel my pain
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| P pray for your little brother
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| Silkk, keep your head up
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| I’m tryin' but sometime I get fed up (Damn)
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| What about all of the people that died in the past?
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| Peers I can’t get back with too many found guilty
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| And I know they didn’t do it
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| But still they can’t get back
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| I see the copper be tryin' to nail me
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| Police constantly trailin' me
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| Cause I’m young, rich, and black
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| I’m always under survelience
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| Dash me out the car
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| And wanna ask me who the car fuck
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| Thay allowed to carry guns
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| Can’t never be convicted
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| Who that law fuck?
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| I’m guilty till proven innocent
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| Still we all equals, how do you figure?
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| Cop told me
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| «you weren’t speeding but I’m gonna give you a ticket cause you a
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| Nigga»
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| I seen the hardest of my homies
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| Break down in tears
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| A white judge looked them in the eyes
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| And gave them 35 years
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| Now its a everyday struggle
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| I hustle just to live
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| To raise your kids
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| When they got them teachin' them
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| Their parents better than them
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| They got me thinkin'
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| The color of my skin
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| Is a sin
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| I’m a black man in a white man’s world
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| Where its set up for me not to win
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| Lookit, ain’t that about a bitch
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| They look at us like we ain’t shit
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| But lookit, I ain’t racist, but face it, it exists
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| I’m a black man (Unghhhhh)
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| I’m just a black man trapped in this white world (x3)
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| And this goes to every woman, man, boy, and girl
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| Outro:
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| Check this out (check this out)
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| Underneath (underneath)
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| Ain’t no black or white (there ain’t no black or white)
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| We all equal (we all equal)
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| We all equal (we all equal)
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| We all (remember that)
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| Got the same opportunity
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| Whether we wanna be judges, doctors, or lawyers
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| Ain’t a black or white thing
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| Pick the best man for the job
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| And there shouldn’t be no hatin'
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| Where you live, if you can afford to buy a house
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| Should be able to live wherever you want
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| The same hospitality they give to athletes
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| And movie stars
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| Should give that same hospitality and companionship
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| To your neighbors
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| You heard me?
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| Y’all know it ain’t a black and white thing with me
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| I just make music
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| For the reality
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| Only the real could feel this, huh
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| Only the real could feel this |