hate

Uh, you can see it all in my eyes, my persona's live
Just put me anywhere I'll survive
Still these skeptics will question you, wonder why
Hmm, maybe cause I'm fly, and melanated
A manifestation of God
You invading new spaces, I'm on the grind
Yo advancing financially, yeah they hate to see a nigga on the rise
All these years in the making done made me wise
They won't love you 'till you die, I think they just want to see a brother's demise
Look, no time to wonder why, keep your mind on the bigger picture
Right, I'm trying to change my life, so no time to just kick it wit'em
Salute to my town, I'll never forget ya
It's ironic, I'll get bigger but my country still looks at me like a nigga
All of these riches come with gold diggers, plus people turning on you
So I got to keep my finger on the trigger
You better watch for them police, they out to get ya
But I' legally licensed to carry, they don't give a fuck, they'll still hit ya
Hey, they say it's in the scriptures that we're punished people, we'll be conflicted
Feared and hated upon, may God forgive us
I'm constantly seeking light to grow my conscious, when obviously it's a fight
To stay positive when I might just die tonight
Black homicides is trife, boy I never been robbed, not in my life
Man, some niggas pay the price for being nice
I'll roll the dice, life's a gamble, I'll play the shit like scramble
Seeing walls closing in on me is nothing I've never handled
Offing enemies, they ain't nothing I ever can't do
An example of a stand-up G, do what a man do

I got love, so why these devils want to hate on me
Hate on me
Hate on me
Hate, hate
Why these devils want to hate on me
They just hating on me
I'm too powerful king, acknowledge me, you see the power I bring
Me and my peoples doing powerful things, they just hating
Acknowledge me, you see the power I bring
Me and my peoples doing powerful things, they just

They can't hang you, that's what them demons said
As long as you got us, they'll never lead ahead
On my knees I begged, asked from strength
Cause the things I did, needed no reasoning, just an eager head
Almost got locked up when it was just a pop-up
That's when I noticed my surroundings full of monsters
I grew a conscious, out the Loch Ness, shit is obnoxious
Where I'm from, never trusted the process
Nah, cause that be elimination
We ain't no better to call it discrimination
I'm ventilating, can't afford to lose
Anything else, a poor excuse, here's the demonstration
Picket signs for the wicked times
That we living in, the situation always in decline
Pick a side, stop switching rides
Freedom of minds
Never free but always in disguise

I got love, so why these devils want to hate on me
Hate on me
Hate on me
Hate, hate
Why these devils want to hate on me
They just hating on me
I'm too powerful king, acknowledge me, you see the power I bring
Me and my peoples doing powerful things, they just hating
Acknowledge me, you see the power I bring
Me and my peoples doing powerful things, they just

When you live in a dominant culture that is designed to destroy your sense of self
And your belief in yourself, you have to learn ways in which you can begin to connect
With this power that you have within yourself, to handle where you are