What Matters? (feat. Shaun Martin, Farnell Newton, Adam Ledbetter, Chris Rob, Arnetta Johnson, Kimberly Jones & Adam Chase) [Cinematic Version]
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Yo, use your voice, use your instruments, use, use your platforms To say what you need to say I don't even want to chop the tree down You know what I want to do Adam Come a little closer I want to dig that motherfucker up from the root And the only way this thing is going to change is you have to dig up the roots The root is the education of the children of the next generation Doggone right Got to change the root You gotta chop up that root, get that root up out of there And then plant a whole new tree A tree of love, justice, mercy, grace, compassion, kindness, forgiveness You've got to plant that tree There's a social contract that we all have that if you steal or I steal Then, the person who has the authority comes in and they fix the situation But the person who fixes the situation is killing us So the social contract is broken And if the social contract is broken, why the f*ck do I give a shit About burning a mother fucking football hall of fame About burning a fucking target You broke the contract when you killed us in the streets and didn't give a f*ck You broke the contract when for 400 years we played your game and built your wealth You broke the contract when we built our wealth again, on our own, by our bootstraps in Tulsa and you dropped bombs on us When we built it in Rosewood and you came in and you swatted us You broke the contract so f*ck your target, f*ck your hall of fame How can you win, How can you win You can't win You're right, there's so many barriers, so many hurdles that people are put through If their fighting so hard to keep you from doing because they don't want you to do it That's absolutely what you should do Voting is the number 1 priority You know, what a blessing it is to be evolved We have to keep teaching people how evolve And lead them with our actions, with our thoughts, with our words This is important We're evolved people and we have to keep teaching people how to evolve So, look, we get it We understand it sucks that you have to talk to people that you live with, people that you love And I'm glad that you see that some of your family members are racist Talk to 'em, talk to 'em You are breaking a generational cycle, a generation mindset, a generational curse It is not something that's easy That is a fight in itself From what I understand, you want to go back, you want to go back and you want to try and help undo hundreds of years Far as I'm concerned they can burn this bitch to the ground Of systemic And it still wouldn't be enough Racism And they are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge I'm down, I say we do it That's one small step for man One giant leap for mankind
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