If You Ain't Up on Things
Adam Prince
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Yeah This a vibe Vibe vibe Yeah what up Real talk Teacher told me in 5th grade that rap's too Full of demons and this makes the brats Too fixated on racks through disdain in the tracks But all I knew was Still Dre still slaps Hello white America, assassinating character They never got the culture so they called it all hysteria And I am from an area where vulgar means your merit sucks And you could have a point in there but we don't get your heritage I'm trying to drop views I knew BLM from from the POV of Fox News Black lives matter "Of course your lives matter, all of them do. The cops too" I never got the undermining nature To stand with BLM is not to be a white man hater But after slavery and custody and Tuskegee We should give encouragement instead of compromising favor If you aint up on things Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out If you aint up on things Lemme catch up to the rest of yall If you aint up on things You aint up on things You aint up on things This aint a diss track, I'm trying to show growth Cause home grown's a no-no when all I know is Tone Loc And as far as I'm shown all the rest say f*** the po-po I watch the world in slo-mo as the fighters are pro bono Scrolling in my memory, I'm thinking of the first event. When Michael Brown was shot, I thought, "I guess I'm 'voiding Ferguson" I didn't get the hurtin' then but rioting was burdensome But looking back from now, I see what I 's among the worst of 'em Light, dark, faux, real, rich, poor, house, field I never thought I contributed to the "still" Until I saw Floyd and there is no avoiding the film If I'm white and I'm destroyed, how's a black boy feel I'm sorry man If you aint up on things Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out If you aint up on things Lemme catch up to the rest of yall If you aint up on things You aint up on things You aint up on things I know a white guy who taught a white child the n-word And got highfives like lifetimes aint never Been sacrificed to southern incompetence I don't think he knows the dominance of the past I never learned Jim Crow, so I read it online The constitution said a slave is only three over five I never read any the words Frederick Douglass jot I'm even from The Lou and nobody told me Dred Scott If you asked when emancipation happened, I'd shrug And say the Civil War but I dont even know when it was I didn't know the Great Migration had ever begun They're things that white teachers never know how to confront I mean hey, I don't blame them. It's uncomfortable for us But you can either own it up or sweep it under the rug And it comes back with a vengeance till the world is destroyed I'm tryna pay my penance Rest in peace George Floyd If you aint up on things Gimme a minute, lemme figure it out If you aint up on things Lemme catch up to the rest of yall If you aint up on things You aint up on things You aint up on things
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