[00:00.000] 作词 : Al Green/Meek Mill/The-Dream/Shawn Carter/Derrick Omondi Okoth/Street Symphony
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Al Green/Meek Mill/The-Dream/Shawn Carter/Derrick Omondi Okoth/Street Symphony
[00:18.52]Yeah, I was on that corner, tryna get my coins up
[00:22.08]Coppers run up on us and we turn to Jackie Joyner
[00:25.13]White man kill a black man, they never report us
[00:28.33]Black man kill a white man, they gon' start a war up
[00:31.46]Mama she was sour, sippin' on the Absolut
[00:34.84]Young ****** brainwashed, they just wanna rap and hoop
[00:37.88]Could've been a lawyer until they came and shackled you
[00:40.99]Felons on your records
[00:42.29]So them jobs ain't gettin' back at you
[00:44.24]Them kids ain't eat yet, so you can't even sleep yet
[00:47.25]That's the only thing we ever saw, we repeat that
[00:50.47]They was playing ball, fouled him hard, said I'd be back
[00:53.56]Broad day, threw his life away, soon as he clapped
[00:56.70]Gave that boy a life sentence, made his momma relapse
[00:59.86]Damn, they don't understand
[01:02.33]Comin' from the bottom, it's so hard to make a plan
[01:05.30]Know them kids beefin', they let it get out of hand
[01:08.48]OGs never told us nothin' in advance
[01:11.62]Young ****** killing young ******
[01:13.62]**** is like the Klan, I said
[01:15.49]Told my young *****, "You the man," I said
[01:18.59]You don't wanna end up like my man Ahmed
[01:21.93]Praying five times a day, prostration on his head
[01:24.97]Screamin' Insha'Allah that
[01:26.74]He don't make it to the feds
[01:28.23]Caught up in the system, visit from his sister
[01:31.61]Talkin' 'bout all these ******
[01:33.52]How they ain't even with him
[01:34.92]Said they would ride or die
[01:36.61]But it ain't even in 'em
[01:38.06]Always postin' on the 'Gram
[01:39.90]But hey ain't sendin' pictures
[01:41.41]Never answer when you call
[01:42.95]But answer for them *****es
[01:44.43]Got you thinking twice
[01:45.81]Damn I should've been a witness
[01:47.46]Dismantle my business, just telling my story
[01:50.53]All guns, no glory, been going on before me
[01:53.85]We slaves in the '40s, still slaves in the present
[01:57.01]No toys for Christmas, ain't get us no presents
[02:00.13]Only made us evil, made us hungry, made us desperate
[02:03.37]Youngin' in the 9th grade, he got a Smith and Wesson
[02:06.65]Grew up with the goons, now he need protection
[02:09.76]He dropped outta school, then he got arrested
[02:12.87]Lord with a blessing
[02:14.44]I just hope he learned his lesson
[02:15.94]They told us, if we go to jail
[02:17.64]We would be respected
[02:19.24]They told us, if we make a sale
[02:20.83]We would run a check in
[02:22.43]Threw a rock out in that field, and got intercepted
[02:25.54]He stumbled, he fumbled, y'all ****** just rumble
[02:28.59]They told you to hustle, them ****** don't love you
[02:31.69]Young black American, (na na)
[02:34.34]Wanna live like the fairer skin, (na na)
[02:37.21]Fall to the paradigm, (na na)
[02:40.46]Occupied on that Marilyn, (na na)
[02:43.65]The prophecies of the wild *****, no church
[02:46.85]My uncles said stop *****ing *****, no skirts
[02:50.01]It's kinda crazy there's another world
[02:52.71]On the other side of town
[02:55.16]Pastor rollin' up in that Rolls
[02:57.67]Pullin' up in that Holy Ghost
[02:59.62]Preaching, while ****** dying by the Bible code
[03:02.58]The destruction, the hate
[03:05.32]The obstruction of my faith
[03:08.30]My prayers, my faith
[03:11.63]Will never be the same
[03:14.74]Young black America
[03:17.20]Young black America
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[03:49.54]Young black America