Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Rocwell's America, artist - SA-ROC.
Date of issue: 20.05.2021
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
Rocwell's America |
This a portrait of America that Norman couldn’t master |
But crack rock well-suited for the capture |
Whole hood hostage to that white in the glass |
But because the prisoners Black, it wasn’t labeled a disaster |
Too hard not to internalize |
So I keep burning in this personal hell 'til the inferno dies |
Government feeding us bullshit 'stead of truth |
Giving birth to a dishonest nation, we call it fertile lies |
We had a house kept getting robbed |
'Member the night daddy brought the pistol out to end the men involved |
And 5−0 came to grace us with their presence two hours after mom dukes had sent |
the call |
And who was I? |
Young Assata from the Zulu tribe |
Trying to breed love from hate like The Bluest Eye |
Too many friends long lost to this useless cycle |
I guess that’s a revolutionary suicide |
Huey saved me, Paulette and Henry made me |
Proud of humble beginnings, but hungry for domination |
I’m an abomination |
The X they can’t solve for, smoking revolver |
Ghost of a Mau Mau, rolling through Upper Marlboro |
And all of us was struggling just to get by |
And the reflection is eternal, Talib gave us words to live by |
But all we want to do was get high |
Kept a one-hitter of that indica hidden above my mid-thigh |
Building with the gods 'bout the 120 |
Hit the Rastas up with the change from my lunch money |
Cop a Final Call from the NOI |
Tryna to figure out how to stay up when that misery seems to love our company |
But we made it through the hurricane |
That’s why I’m quick to speak the truth, but I’m careful not to hurry fame |
'Cause even though I came a long way, I |
Owe less to the struggles where I am than to the tragedy from where I came |
Sa-Roc, Sol Messiah, SP the Ghost |
I am Malcolm and Mandela (I am) |
From the concrete jungle with knowledge of sand dwellers |
Shout to the sisters (Shout) |
Smoking while I listen to the ancestors whisper |
Fight for your freedom and your rights 'cause you need 'em (You need) |
And it’s the tech days, so your life gets deleted if your cypher ain’t |
completed (Cypher ain’t complete) |
If you ain’t complete, you ain’t elite (Uh-uh) |
If your little brother’s hungry, then tell me, how could you eat? |
(How could you?) |
It’s one for all, all for one (One for all) |
Brand Nubians, light up a doobie, give me a gun |
I been watching the news (Yeah), I been feeling the blues (Yeah) |
You could get killed by the boys wearing the blue (You know) |
And I don’t mean the Crips (Uh-uh) |
I’m talking 'bout the cops on the strip |
See the opps and your option’s to dip (You gotta dip) |
It shouldn’t have to be like that |
Hard to survive, third eye, can’t see like that (Can't see), Ghost |
To my Black bro and Black sis |
Keep your Black thought and Black fist |
Yeah, I’m always on some Black shit |
Probably got me on their blacklist |
I’m willing to die for these Black kids |
Are you willing to die for these Black kids? |
We gotta survive for these Black kids |
We gotta be wise for these Black kids, yeah |