’m just tryna make it home safe/look a nigga got no room for mistakes/

You tell me that you don’t see color/ but you need to see my skin carries weight

I’m just tryna make it home safe/ I know 12/ gon run a nigga plates/

I just bought a burner in my name now/
You ain’t gotta worry yo brain now/

Speak of the devil and he shall appear/ wit a blue squad car/ in ya rear view mirror/now I don’t fear much/ but I know the facts/that they’ll pull me over just for living while black/ that’s why my heart racing/bout to jump up out my chest/you know a traffic stop for me/can mean certain death/either for my flesh/or either for my character/cause they’ll plant some dope in my car/and say I’m sellin it/ another melanated man in the prison pipeline/mass incarceration is the slavery in our lifetime/private prisons squeezing out millions like a python/ the plotters stay plottin/ word to Louis Farrakhan/ yeah I went and bought a gun and I got the papers/if 12 try me/ I’ll put the piggy in the blanket/ I gotta have a fighting chance up against these racists/you say you color blind then this 9 is ya lasik/ blaooohh

I’m just tryna make it home safe/look a nigga got no room for mistakes/

You tell me that you don’t see color/ but you need to see my skin carries weight

I’m just tryna make it home safe/ I know 12/ gon run a nigga plates/

I just bought a burner in my name now/
You ain’t gotta worry yo brain now/


This is dedicated to my only nephew/ it’s been a couple months since your uncle left you/ we spoke on the phone and your voice is getting deeper/ I heard you gettin taller/ mustache gettin darker/ I know you wanna grow up fast but listen/ it’s some people out there that won’t know the difference/between a grown ass man/ and a teenage kid and because you brown skinned they view you different/ like a thug & criminal/creepin through they livin room/you’ve become intimidating/ they gon they gon try to limit you and box you in like 2 cars/remember who-you-are/we are Kings & queens/ diaspora is so broad/ you ain’t gotta be hard/ it’s okay to be smart/ it’s okay to be gifted/ ya uncle made it livin/ oppression now is systemic/ I hate the world is so frigid/if you acquire a billion/they still gon call you a nigga/

I’m just tryna make it home safe/ I know a lot of my brothers can relate/

You tell me that you don’t see color/ but you need to see my skin carries weight

I’m just tryna make it home safe/ I know 12/ gon run a nigga plates/

I just bought a burner in my name now/
You ain’t gotta worry yo brain now/

Nooo,

Nooo,


I can see the way the way that you terrorize, but tear gas won’t shut my eyes

I can see the way that you terrorize,
But tear gas won’t shut my eyes

I can see the way that you terrorize,
But tear gas won’t close my eyes,

I can see the way that you terrorize,
But no lives matter until black lives,

I can see the way that you terrorize,
But no lives matter until black lives

I can see the way that you terrorize
But no lives matter until black lives

I can see the way that you terrorize,
But no lives matter until black lives

Nooo,

No lives matter until black lives

Ya ay

No lives matter until black lives

Ya ay

No lives matter until black lives

Ay ay, ay ay, ay ay,