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[Chorus] Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What we |
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Handed Down |
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Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What |
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We Handed |
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Down [Verse 1] |
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My mommy gave me |
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Donny Half-a-way |
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Young Gifted and |
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Black Amidst |
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The Positivity, |
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I wound to bring it back |
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But Rap now-a-days is by a bunch of ignorant cats |
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No young gifted and black |
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Just guns bitches and crack |
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I react by turning off |
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BET and Sambo's telling me what blackness is supposed to be |
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Used to give us world news now it's all videos replaced |
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Tavis Smiley with reality shows |
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If you let the |
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TV define what black is you think ice and violence is all we think that matters |
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I guess this is what happens when rappers look up to thugs |
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And kids look up to rappers |
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To some of y'all if |
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I don't talk about the gat enough |
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Or sell crack enough |
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I ain't black enough |
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But I rather be a pro at being myself |
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Than be an idiot trying to be somebody else, what [Chorus] |
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Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What we |
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Handed Down |
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Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What |
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We Handed |
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Down [Verse 2] |
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I'm at the bus stop with my bike |
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Been there for awhile |
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Mom's taught me how to catch this route when |
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I was a child - |
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Another kid walks up freakin up black and mild |
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Fifteen same age, |
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I learn shits wild |
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An older lady walks up greets us with a smile |
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Asks how we both doing and sits down |
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She knows what's it's like to grow up in the south |
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Civil Rights when the white's was hosing us down |
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I started thinking to myself that even though that time's were tougher |
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They still took timeout to speak to one another |
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But look at us, me and this young brother |
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Acting to proud to break down and speak to each other |
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So inside |
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I felt ashamed |
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Not sure of how to but |
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I wanna change |
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And as long as |
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I'm alive than the fact remains |
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That it's never too late for us to break the chains |
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Come on y'all [Chorus] |
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Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What we |
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Handed Down |
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Come on say it loud |
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Look what we handed down |
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Don't it make you proud? |
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Look What |
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We Handed |
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Down *scratching* |
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Things is bound to change... |