| Another school shooting just occurred today
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| Thinking what on earth could make somebody run up in a school
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| or a church and take innocent lives away based on a person’s race
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| Little school kids stripped of their vertebrae’s
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| Fake rumors start to circulate, they beat his ass on camera,
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| cause they heard he’s gay, the youtube views almost up at 30k
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| The internet got a social life we impersonate
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| The lip sticks but never lost the beat one
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| And not that we failed
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| The world don’t need male role models
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| Wish you knew your pops but he gone
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| And mom don’t keep up, she got two jobs
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| Don’t like stress, working for her children
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| She will work while her teenager daughter in the room with a dude and she
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| twerking while filming
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| Hurt somebody’s feelings
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| Shit all we do online is diss and talk bad and we bash total strangers
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| Hope’s endangered
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| Glad to see my homie has made it back from Iraq
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| But his limbs are torn up, his friends got blown up
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| Enlisted as a kid, ever since they grown up
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| They been through so much, disposed to death in combat
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| How the fuck you come back and adapt?
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| My homie just got Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
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| I’m praying every day hoping he gonna beat it
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| Strong motherfucker on the phone with me
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| Telling me jokes while he’s going through his chemo treatment
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| And he didn’t put one sad story on his timeline
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| Instagram or Facebook ain’t always real life
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| People staring at their phones so much that they forget to look up and see the
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| skyline
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| Thinking that they Einstein cause they word their clever posters
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| Just a flash in a tiny attention span
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| Music is chewed up like fast food and spewed out
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| Like «I'm new with a menu plan»
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| I can’t hear shit.
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| So sad but he gladly can die
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| My lyrics a million mirrors to the tears in my eyes
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| I’ve done my best to share my life
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| My privacy’s been sacrificed
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| But now we’ve reached the end
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| Until we meet again
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| I put my soul in every word
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| I’ve shared my pain until it hurts
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| But now we’ve reached the end
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| Until we meet again
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| Ah yeah
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| Woke up and I checked what’s on this morning
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| A cop just shot and killed a black kid
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| It was all recorded
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| Just like the incident they put up two days before it
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| It’s become so normal that it sickens me
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| I know that I’m probably going to piss some people off listening
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| Because I’m white and I’m talking about some shit that we generally don’t go
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| through
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| But still I can’t ignore it
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| There’s so many people with power to walk it forward
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| The problem ain’t gonna solve itself
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| Half of the cases are unreported until it’s caught on someone’s cell
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| And this is not a diss to all law enforcement, we call on them to help out when
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| there is a threat
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| But I guess it’s because I’m white, if I was black I would be scared to death
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| When David Banner asked
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| «Where were all the white rappers at when Mike Brown got gunned down?»
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| I couldn’t think of any answers
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| I felt ashamed and afraid of the future
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| With no contribution or any helping hand to lend
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| I went to Kansas City
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| Shooting videos for my last album
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| And I could feel the tension
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| Another time of my life that I felt I was guilty for the color of my skin
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| Come three months later, I was back in Missouri
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| On tour the same night that the verdict was read
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| I was in shock, on Twitter venting
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| Then one of my fans tweeted that Mike Brown deserved it
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| I said, «Man, you dumb as fuck
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| Imagine you went to the store for blunts
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| And tried to run out the door with a pack
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| And the cops didn’t bother arresting you
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| Or give you a lecture
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| But instead they just murdered you dead and this shit ain’t right!»
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| I’ve done my best to share my life
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| My privacy’s been sacrificed
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| But now we’ve reached the end
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| Until we meet again
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| I put my soul in every word
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| I’ve shared my pain until it hurts
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| But now we’ve reached the end
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| Until we meet again
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| Ah yeah.
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| We hold these truths to be self-evident
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| That all men are created equal
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| They are endowed by their creator
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| With certain unalienable rights
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| And among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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| That to secure these rights
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| Governments are instituted among men
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| Deriving their powers from the consent of the governed
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| All men are born free and equal
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| And have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights
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| Among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and
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| liberties
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| That of acquiring, possessing, and protecting their property
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| And find that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness
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| We’ve taken too many steps forward to take this many back
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| We’ve taken too many steps forward to take this many back |