Wake Up Black People

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Griff Lamar

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So ready
To learn yeah
Uh
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
Ok so
Tell me what the heck
Does it mean to be black
Is it rap music or craps shooting
Fathers choosing to leave
And children losing
The family unit has depleted
We're defeated as a culture
Plus big brother always got us
Looking over our shoulders
As I get older swear it gets colder
Unless you wear this war paint
Please don't say racism's over
Cuz when I walk in the store
Try to buy my family food
They follow me I call them out
And somehow I'm the one who's rude
My father served the nation
So me I served the nation
But the nation has replaced
Equality with toleration
So everyday I wake up
And tell myself I'm the man
And if your skin is lacking pigment
Then you just can't understand
Brother Malcolm said by any means
All I see is enemies
My brothers and sisters
We got to change our self-identities
If we ain't got us then who else
Gonna have our back
We the only ones who really
Understand what's on this track right
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
Yeah
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
Ok our history don't start with slavery
But tell me why that's news to me
Nobody ever told us growing up
We came from kings and queens
They never taught from our perspective our story
'Til the lion tells the tale
The hunter always gets the glory huh
But we are much more than just a perception
Of an oppressive system designed
To get us arrested
Keep us apart children neglected see
We are more than just the mask that we put on
To make some cash and bring it home
Then spend it fast until it's gone
They don't want us to wake up
They tell us get your cake up
All your dreams can be achieved
With pale make-up
The miseducation of my people has took our vision
But if we look back
Then we can find out what we've been missing
We've all fallen victim to the design
Of a system that redefines
The community of the minds of our people
But this is equal
No chains needed when our minds are feeble
This world is evil
But some knowledge can make you lethal
You know what I mean
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
Yeah
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
So who are you and who am I
We're done with all the lies
Our eyes are open to the madness
So let's focus on the prize
If we don't put in work to reestablish family ties
Then we doomed to walk the earth
With no heritage to define
Be against our demise
I want our people to rise
I want us to all survive
But we have to free our minds
Cuz they got us in the binds
And they keep us wasting time
Provoke us actin out of line and
Dimming stars that's meant to shine
Promoting ignorance is what's relevant
Suppression of our only leaders
Seems to be prevalent
Another Dr. King I have a dream
Would be heaven sent
But y'all it's up to us to
Persevere with benevolence
Give each other strength to keep climbing
So when they bury us
We can use this solid investment as wings to carry us
Give each other strength to keep climbing
So when they bury us
We can use this solid investment as wings to carry us
Yeah
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people
Yeah
It's time to wake up black people
Yeah
All my beautiful black people

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