Black Shoes

Damn another black baby on that pavement
My people built this country for free
This the repayment
Looking in the sky second guessing where that prayer went
Four hundred years later still dealing with the same shit man
Now they kill us while they pose for the cameras
Police fill my body with holes
I got my hands up
Say I can't kneel
Beat me down I try to stand up
Now you wanna tell me to chill
Bitch I'm fed up like
I guess you need yo knee on my neck
If you shoot me in my back that must mean I'm a threat
Guess since my skin is black then my sentence is death
I said I can't breathe nigga you deaf
Can't you see me crying for my momma
Running to my granny
I guess you the only one out here who got a family
Pull me over just cause you jelly
Tryna jam me
Officer what I do
This a misunderstanding
I mean, look at my son
Just watching you take his daddy from him
Finger on yo trigger
Itching to hit that panic button
Wife in the passenger screaming
Going frantic, cussing
Bystanders watching like damn
They killed that man for nothing

How I'm resisting with my hands cuffed
How I'm reaching for a gun I got my hands up
How you patrolling a community you scared of
Is it so hard for you to show a black man love

These black shoes
They seen it all
But these black shoes
They help me stand up when I fall
Say these black shoes ain't made for y'all
(Take a walk in em)
Take a walk in these black shoes uh
These black shoes yeah, yeah

Long hug for all the black mothers
And all the black sisters keeping all our backs covered
Our black queens be the only people that love us
Swear I never seen a strength like this
When you gotta turn a goodnight kiss into a goodbye kiss
And stand tall when err'body else is shook like this
Cause you refuse to let us get our pride took by this
You embrace us cause we look like this
And I don't think we talk enough about yo struggle
Before they open fire I just wanna say I love you
Nothing like yo smile Queen don't let em take it from you
And when it gets hard with all that shit you gotta juggle
Just look above you
Ima be right there cheering for ya
Black woman and her love that's a hero for ya
You know when it's time to ride she gone G up for ya
And when this world take yo voice she gone speak up for ya
Fist up leader for ya

How he resisting with his hands cuffed
How he reaching for a weapon with his hands up
Tell me what about this color you so scared of
Is it so hard for you to show a black man love

If we don't have nothing in this world
We've got one another
Sister my brother
Oh yeah
Please save our children from this world
Teach us to love us
Sisters and brothers
Oh yeah

Hey son
Found this on BJ's bed
It's for you
Big bro
If you reading this
I wish you wasn't
I'm writing this
Cause I got a feeling tonight
May be the last time we speak
That's why I asked you to come out
One last turn up with big bro
But you know I'm out here for the cause and
I gotta do what I gotta do
It's a solo mission this time
This one foul ass cop
Call himself flexing in my hood
Harassing the kids bro
I ain't gone have that
I just need to catch him in action
But he hotheaded
So just in case
I don't make it back
Look after my kids for me
And always let em know
I love em more than anything
That's why I'm doing this
So maybe one day
They ain't gotta live in fear
I love you bro
You know that music
Don't stop doing that bro
You a real storyteller
You got a gift
Maybe you can tell my story one day
That way
I know it's gone be told right
But change my name though
Give me something with a kick to it like
I don't know like, Curt
Yeah, I like Curt
L-O-L
You know it wouldn't be me
If I ain't try to make a joke outta the situation
But on a more serious note bro
Take care of pops for me
Until we meet again
Ya lil bro
BJ