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  • Black man, drop top

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • Is it because of my people?

  • Is it because of my sneakers?

  • Is it because of my jersey?

  • It is because that I'm perfect?

  • Ridin' down 85, three in the morning

  • Why you pull me over sayin' you smell marijuana? (Smellin' the gas)

  • I said I got a ID, I got glaucoma (I got ID)

  • He said, "We ain't in Cali nigga, get out, put your hands up"

  • Runnin' real hard shook the taser (shook the taser)

  • Runnin' real hard shook the taser (shook the taser)

  • I told him can we split it, we gon' shake 'em

  • Nigga hit my phone when you made it (brrp)

  • Out of here, PJ to Jamaica

  • Naw I ain't tell ya wrong, get the paper

  • Been fightin' too long against haters

  • My attitude, yeah I'm going for the shaders

  • Live from the cracks of the concrete

  • 12 try to take a nigga off the street

  • Make the gun sound now for Mike Brown

  • Take a nigga life when you face down

  • Hoodie gang strong like Trayvon

  • Gun by the window like Detroit Red

  • Bring that shit by the neck of my woods

  • And bet a nigga ass end up dead

  • Pig in a blanket, fuck was you thinkin'?

  • Free that nigga Boosie, runnin' at the police

  • Left him with a slow leak, right outside VC

  • Tryna keep a Phantom like DC

  • Hangout the G like free Meek

  • Kill a nigga reachin' for a cell phone

  • Hurt to tell his mama he ain't comin' home

  • That's why I stay strapped all summer long

  • And you know it

  • Black man, drop top

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • Is it because of my people?

  • Is it because of my sneakers?

  • Is it because of my jersey?

  • It is because that you nervous? (damn)

  • Black man

  • Running from the law like Pac-Man

  • Try and throw the raw all in the trash can

  • Got smoked by a cop on the dash cam

  • Mug shot on the news, he a mad man

  • When all he did was hustle to run the cash in

  • He feedin' kids in jail if he wasn't crackin'

  • Too many felonies on my jacket

  • All of my brothers turn to assassins

  • We seen too many brothers get put in caskets

  • Too many young baby mothers and baby daddies

  • In the graveyard back then

  • I went from sittin' on clubs to the cashmere

  • You shoulda seen how I flossed on 'em last year

  • Two Maybachs and I had a bad year

  • Young nigga countin' money like a cashier

  • White man wanna pay me like I'm U-N-O

  • Niggas wanna see me at my funeral

  • Neither of my own homie wanna do me though

  • Layin' on my dog crib like I'm Snoopy though

  • That's my nigga, I ain't even wanna do it though

  • If I don't do it, shit I know he gon' do me though

  • Cause he broke and he trippin' 'bout stupid hoes

  • But I'mma die just like motherfuckin' Julio

  • Black man

  • Black man, drop top

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • Is it because of my people?

  • Is it because of my sneakers?

  • Is it because of my jersey?

  • It is because that I'm perfect?

  • Police see I got my hands up

  • Still wanna kill me, they don't understand us

  • They be lookin' for a reason just to shoot me

  • And wanna do me how they do us in the movies

  • Or how they do it out in Baton Rouge

  • Or Ferguson, or Florida, or Baltimore, they make excuses

  • Like I did cause I thought he had a pistol

  • Or I did it cause I thought he was a Muslim

  • My message to America, felon or death here

  • The liquor we die, we just substances left here

  • First you put us in a small hood

  • And then you beat us and you treat us like it's all good

  • And then shoot us and you screw us economically, mentally

  • Killin' nigga, no penalty, they can do that shit legally

  • Bet I can make that ass think 'fore you shoot

  • You kill me, man there gon' be more of some riotin' and lootin'

  • We say black lives matter, you say all lives

  • But y'all ain't the ones gettin' hogtied

  • Persecuted, executed, one day it gon' be time for retribution

  • Hope you don't ever see your son in an institution

  • I know karma is constant and God ain't no nonsense

  • You doin' wrong just to run shit

  • One day the time gon' run out for the dumb shit

  • Ain't no deception, tryna get in Heaven

  • You gettin' nailed, bet it's on your Mary

  • And you know what you did for who how much you really care

  • And what you really felt, he gon' deny the opportunity to unify

  • With people who look similar to you and I

  • Cause he don't wanna have a

  • Black man, drop top

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • Is it because of my people?

  • Is it because of my sneakers?

  • Is it because of my jersey?

  • It is because that I'm perfect?

  • Black man, drop top

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • There go the cops

  • Is it because of my people?

  • Is it because of my sneakers?

  • Is it because of my jersey?

  • It is because that I'm perfect?

Black man, drop top

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