B.O.B. - New Black (Lyrics)

Tell me what it means

To be black, someone tell me what it means

Who I gotta vote for, who am I to be

What car I gotta drive, where I gotta buy my jeans, black man

If you ain't really hood, you can't be a black man

Is it cause I'm proper when I speak, black man

Should I be a chain and gold teeth black man

Or a Martin Luther King had a dream black man, a dream black man

You really gotta practice what you preach, black man

How you gonna talk about peace, black man

When I got death threats on my screen

I am not the enemy, black man

So who draws the first straw

Everybody hurt, who caused the first scar

'Cause as soon as you see niggas get to fighting

You be the first mother fucker wanna yell out World Star

Can't nobody else touch a nigga

But it's cool for a brother just to bust a nigga

Guns sold in every hood, he'll slay a dozen niggas

Gon' kill yourself, while you're at it, take a couple with you

And that don't justify the cop shit, I'm just on some black mob shit

The best way to protest, hit 'em where it hurts, their pockets

It's time to boycott shit

We need less rappers and more doctrines

We need less ballers and more prophets

We need more unity, less gossip

But who am I to speak, I never went to college

I hate to be the bearer of bad news

But all of this double standard thinking is taboo

If black hate is a myth, the term new black wouldn't even exist

I pray for tomorrow, I pray for the sorrow

I pray for the truth and I pray for Chicago

I pray for Detroit and I pray for Oakland

I pray for Port Au Prince and I pray for New Orleans

Somebody let me know, how can I be a better African American

Like I ain't grow up being black in America

Like I ain't grow up around crack, AIDS and heroin

Damn

They don't really know, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh

Sim simmer sim simmer, ugh

Pour some liquor, for my niggas, ugh

Bust a swisher, roll a cigar

Hitta another strip club, throw my income

Well, I guess it's all we know

Hate is all we been taught, so that's all we show

Just a nigga from Decatur, white as all our doors

Even though the days of dark, still we all got hope

So what's the motive

We don't control shit, cause we don't own shit

Even in our own hoods, we ain't votin'

And not just for Obama, but locally voting, that's power

Rome wasn't built in just an hour

Can you hear me, do I need to speak louder

Christopher Columbus ain't the only one founder

They don't mention niggas that was on the Mayflower

Wait a second, let it soak, mind blown

Bobby Ray from a different timezone

I dare to speak my mind, and I'm wrong

Well shove it up your ass with a pinecone

I'm tryna paint the bigger picture

You looking for the enemy, then stare into the mirror

I said I'm trying to paint a bigger picture

You looking for the answer, then look into the mirror, black man

They don't really know, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really

They don't really know, black man, black man, black man

They don't really know, ugh, they don't really know, ugh

I'm not even against the whole movement

Like I'm not even hating on it

It's just, if we put that energy into ourselves

And into our community

And not so much into complaining about how we've been done wrong

And, and we have been done wrong, but it's like

We gotta stop just saying the same thing and do something different

All this energy that we're putting into protesting

We should put it into our community

Put it into start up businesses, put it into your kids

Put it into your community

Start our own businesses

So we don't have to support all these other businesses

Feed the, fuck, feed the homeless all year

Do this all year, don't just stop

Don't just stop after this case is over

Don't just stop after this topic, keep it going