Written by: Hasan Salaam

I've been trying to stay grounded and logical
Same clothes for days fucked up Momma layed in a hospital
Getting close to the anniverse of Grandmoms passing
So I haven't been having the best time you could imagine
Life is a struggle death is destined to happen
So I break bread with the fam whether feast or famine
Shows'd be better if more people were showing up
Starting to get tired of folks saying im blowing up
Either the tricks of the trade are slowing up
Or the game is juvenile and im showing signs of growing up
Maybe it's I just see it for what it is
Same shit Willie lynch is running the biz
In every aspect of amerikkkan life
We only taught to think along the lines of Black & White
Like fuck wrong and right
But not tonight
Cause ima turn all the lights out
And burn down the white house
Stake out the capital building with my shank out
For the spirit of Nat Turner and Crazy Horse take scalp
Split some grey matter for all the grey area
For billion dollar bullshit while kids die of malaria
For diamonds you wear with bloody hands attached to um
For the tears killers shed when they family'll tattoo um
Overcrowded prisons got us packed into um
So I pray for the day that Babylon's laying in ruin
In the beginning this was all created for us
57 million miles of land without boarders
Now we taught that the meek shall inherit the earth
And freedom'll be waiting there at heaven's gate for us
The preacher said our slave master would pray for us
Taught us we were beasts of burden
So white Jesus came for us
Hauled us across the globe
To be bought and sold
So we sing spirituals and put our graf on walls so the story gets told
Somebody please just give me the definition
Of your police code that say im fitting a description
That shows 50 shots as justifiable
Amerikkkas crimes against us are undeniable
It's been syphilis and placebos
Given out to us at Tuskegee when we were so-called Negros
The D.S. decision made us 3/5ths of a people
And george Washington aint never been my hero
There's so many different shades of grey in life
But in this world we judged along Black & White
Were judged along Black & White