CHORUS [PHONTE]: Open the door let me in Teach us all, preach us in, Turn the cheek, let it slide Give me five on the black hand slide[STYLES P]: Give me five on the black hand side Tell you what I see through the black man's eyes Look like shit in a Cadillac a black man rise But every different day a different black man dies Shorty momma tripping' off a crack man high Now he watching TV, loving the bad guy(You know) pit bull watching the welfare check You know he African, cause he ain't getting healthier yet Now he put down his knapsack, got a crack pack You don't know if it's there if your vision ain't abstract We in the projects, a lot of us lab rats Voted for Obama, hoping he wouldn't have that Now I can tell you that I feltHell, I still remember how a cell smell Still remember how the pigs at Family crying up on the VI, I couldn't have that Open the door, and teach us all Pass the blunt around hope that it reach us all Now give me five on the black hand side Ghost of Pharoahe Monch watch the black man rise CHORUS [PHONTE][PHAROAHE MONCH]: Pharaohs and Navajo chiefs, the way you making it rain But never for a stripper with emotional pain You wouldn't despite system nourishment for the brain Cause brain, seed, plus soil equals fruits and grains My hood talking nigga keep it simple and plain To let me explain the game break it down and cutting the levels like TetrisThis youngest killer gone blood for a necklace Leave slumped over the wheel of you're LexusSmoke kush, wake up, and eat breakfast What the **** you expect? A generation overly obsessed with mobsters I revolutionary swarm Grammys and OscarsImposters, fake oras and weak shakas Making a mockery of the music to be Pop starsAnd they say I'm a saint Cause I see the remains of the whips and the chains In my hood were it ain't all good, Peep the pain of a single mother she struggling Young child slain, give me five on the black hand slide Lets maintain like the soul train And keep it moving together, I'm saying CHORUS [PHONTE]