BLM

The day I stop appreciating melanin's
The day you take me to a psychiatrist cause I'm settling
For the issues of the world and the status that we in
And standing for anthems of a nation I'm barely allowed in
Where to start, don't put your hands up, you'll get shot down
And disobey their command, watch their partner go wild
Jump out the squad car, hands on their pistols for a traffic stop
Then get an attitude, you ask em to stop
It's profiling, they kill a nigga then start smiling
Then it's justified in the courts because we looked violent
Or so they said, now that's one more father dead
They always take the good ones, Alton Sterling to Oscar Grant
And so I say that Black Lives Matter, don't say they all do
They called me "nigga" the other day, say what they call you?
What's the different between a thug and a troubled teen committing sin?
Just the melanin in his skin, lord

They say if he just obeyed, did what the officers say, he would be here today, but
What if he looked like a bad dude
Or had the complexion of the me and you
Or a kid alone with a toy gun
Or just doing what they said to do
See, it don't matter cause these cops need catheters
They pissed when they hear me yelling Black Lives Matter, look

They try to say Black Lives protestors, violent
Black dies, All Lives movement, silent
They never loved us, see they show they true colors
Know it ain't all bad but I fear for me and my brothers
I dread the day my mother see me on the news
Because a broke taillight's a good reason to take a life
A good soldier, good man, good employee
But that ain't the story
Turn on the tv and you'll see

They say if he just obeyed, did what the officers say, he would be here today, but
What if he looked like a bad dude
Or had the complexion of the me and you
Or a kid alone with a toy gun
Or just doing what they said to do
See, it don't matter cause these cops need catheters
They pissed when they hear me yelling Black Lives Matter, look

It don't matter cause these cops need catheters
They pissed when they hear me yelling Black Lives Matter, look
Black Lives Matter, look
Black Lives Matter, yup