(Intro: Mick Jenkins)
*Mick Jenkins interview*
(Hook: Oscar IV)
Every day (trembling)
How is my mindstate (irrelevant)
How they be treating me (unintelligent)
'Cuz I wasn't born with the better skin
Just look at the score (settle it)
Why you think we resort to the medicine?
We been numb so long, don't even feel a thing
'Cuz every day (trembling)
My mindstate (irrelevant)
They treating me like i'm unintellgent
'Cuz I wasn't born with the better skin
And this pain (settle it)
It's why we resort to the medicine
I've been numb so long, yea
(Verse 1: Oscar IV)
America don't love me, won't show no PDA
Only about the materiel, let's talk about BDA
I ain't just some equipment though, man i'm human I bleed
Send the military after me
Catch a rubber, but ain't no protection out here
People getting shot down and the coppers getting off free
Fed up with the unjustice, raise hell all week
Break down the (break down the)
Walls of the (walls of the)
Institution, right
Take a little bit, slow down how you living
On a road where you ain't passed go yet
Tripping off a vote but it's clear they not hearing me though
Tryna get a job why I speak these codes
In a world full of opportunities the only way forward is more congruency you know
Tune into the media will leave you feeling fake woke
And your hand they're provoking it (for real)
Gotta keep your third eye open
Easier said than done but either way when the badges come and search your trunk
Under surveillance, life you didn't want
Hard not to wish a death upon a judge
And pursuit of happiness to me is a front, on god
Hear my brothers calling out from the streets, why god
(Hook: Oscar IV)
Every day (trembling)
How is my mindstate (irrelevant)
How they be treating me (unintelligent)
'Cuz I wasn't born with the better skin
Just look at the score (settle it)
Why you think we resort to the medicine
We been numb so long, don't even feel a thing
'Cuz every day (trembling)
My mindstate (irrelevant)
They treating me like i'm unintellgent
'Cuz I wasn't born with the better skin
And this pain (settle it)
It's why we resort to the medicine
I've been numb so long
(Verse 2: Raynk)
So long, America's been fucked up for so long
White man's had the one up for so long
And that's so wrong, that's why to my skin color I say
So long, I don't care about that shit
I stand for the people that deserve to be treated equal
Not like shit for their complexion
They get arrested, that's perplexing
So fuck accepting their justice man that just ain't it
Families get seized by tragedies
'Cuz if you black the police don't want to see you breathe
Like literally, why bitter is me, high, fiddle with tree
Might skedaddle and flee, paddle to the middle of the sea
Jump with a rope around my ankle, and a piece of concrete
Sink with defeat, but in a blink we'll all be reborn
So know I am not torn between sides
I throw a fist up for my black brothers and sisters til'
I digress, no I won't about this mess
As a white man in America damn i'm fucking blessed
But I can't be happy when I see evil laughing
When I see demons masquerading
This shit so fucking crazy, deceit, deceit, deceit
All they make you do, pay dues
No receipts, receipts, receipts
I said deceit, deceit, deceit, all they make you do
Pay dues, no receipts, receipts, receipts, damn
(Outro: Mick Jenkins)
*Mick Jenkins interview*
