Time for Change (Black Lives Matter) - Trae Tha Truth/Styles P.mp3

[00:00.918] No justice, no peace
[00:02.769] And if there ain't gon' be no justice, there ain't gon' be no peace
[00:06.371] Young people are enraged, and there's an easy way to stop it
[00:10.574] Arrest the cops
[00:11.562] Charge the cops, charge all the cops
[00:15.216] Not just some of them, charge them in every city across America where our people are being murdered
[00:23.190] Charge them everywhere, that's the bottom line
[00:27.011] Charge the cops, do your job
[00:31.059] Hol' up
[00:31.671] The way we runnin' out of time, it ain't no point of a clock
[00:33.977] You might get killed for being black, no longer state of a shock
[00:37.036] Too many lames to keep account, like when the hell it's gon' stop?
[00:40.157] Crooked cops treat us like ops to leave us dead in a box
[00:43.162] Nobody love us but the hopeless, so we misunderstood
[00:46.296] They feel like black lives don't matter, we just hopin' it could
[00:49.318] They say racism don't exist, if not, why the **** we pissed?
[00:53.041] They hate me 'cause my skin, I'm proudly ripping behind this fence
[00:56.102] No more killing our own, that's why we gotta to stick together
[00:59.055] I be damned if we don't fight, we've got to try this shit together
[01:02.294] Dear Mr. President, you're ****ing us over
[01:05.479] Like we a terroristic threat, the ghetto covered in soldiers
[01:08.377] Fear my only chance to live is with my hand on the trigger
[01:11.586] Way they did the homie Floyd, I feel they hunting for niggas
[01:14.674] They don't love me, momma, everyday we under attack
[01:17.573] Knowing I try to turn away, I might get shot in the back, fact
[01:20.955] I can't even sleep right, starin' at the gun
[01:24.412] Should be staring at the peace pipe, hard to see what peace like
[01:27.522] .45, still get scared from the police lights
[01:30.936] And I came up real rough, right under the street lights
[01:33.695] Democrats, Republicans, Mr. President
[01:36.559] Mr. Bill Gates, everybody's tired of the suffering (Everybody's tired)
[01:40.096] First it was the quarantine and Black Lives Matter (Pay attention)
[01:43.092] Now back to the quarantine and black lives shatter (Pay no attention)
[01:46.222] Police wearing riot gear, black child scatter
[01:49.399] Imagine all the pain and the hate it takes with 'em
[01:52.287] Wanna make a vaccine and make it for racism (Make that)
[01:55.301] Still praying to the Father and keeping my face in 'em
[01:58.722] Look at the news and tell me, what do you see?
[02:01.745] The cops just killed another black man that look just like me
[02:04.551] And naw, this ain't the first time, and it won't be the last
[02:07.728] Unless you stand up against it, so get up off your ass
[02:11.056] Because this is the place, and right now is the time
[02:13.909] To let em know where I stand and how I get down for mine
[02:17.392] They keep killing my brothers and sisters, getting away with it
[02:21.199] So I'm on the frontlines, and I ain't finna play with it
[02:23.963] Black people in America have been oppressed
[02:27.171] So we demandin' racial equality, nothing less
[02:29.620] For what they did in the past and still do
[02:32.500] Wouldn't you want somebody to ride if they killed you?
[02:35.460] It's Mysonne
[02:36.098] Nah, the revolution will be televised
[02:40.137] But they keep choking, beating, shooting us and telling lies
[02:43.184] We better sever ties with this government (Facts)
[02:44.984] You silent about your pain, they gon' swear that you lovin' it
[02:47.961] Crime don't fit the punishment, no niggas doin' forever
[02:51.335] Nah, freedom ain't free, we got to do it together
[02:54.570] That means, by whatever means necessary
[02:58.373] I'm doing God's work, so that means I'm too blessed to worry
[03:01.520] Believe I'm just next to carry the cross for my people
[03:04.191] **** cause, we've got to stay the course until we equal
[03:07.233] When we lost George Floyd, the conscious starting shifting
[03:10.419] I feel like Pac fresh up out of prison
[03:13.657] I guess I'm just different, my heart pure
[03:16.114] Field nigga, **** I'm gon' stay in the house for? (Why?)
[03:19.137] If it ain't real, what you open your mouth for?
[03:22.198] Yeah, I'm a team player, but I'll do it without y'all
[03:25.426] I'm fighting them southpaws (That's right)
[03:27.210] 'Cause I know what's at stake
[03:29.288] We lose then we doomed, there's no room for mistakes (None)
[03:32.229] I'm doin' what it takes, on God, we've got to beat 'em (Gotta)
[03:35.382] No justice, no peace, I'm fighting until freedom
[03:38.746] No, we don't know what the future holds
[03:44.493] But I know, it got to change
[03:50.724] And I pray, I pray that someday we will
[03:56.858] But you should know you're not alone
[04:02.276] But still we gon' fight
[04:03.735] I remember 2Pac said it first, realest shit I heard ever before
[04:06.559] You got money for war, but never the hungry and poor
[04:08.483] But that why they burning your store
[04:09.807] As a message to all, if the only way you could be tall
[04:11.601] Is for everyone to be stuck on they knee
[04:13.604] Then **** it, you small, you wack or you weak
[04:16.115] It ain't no explanation why assassination of black men and women continue repeat
[04:19.136] But this generation don't care 'bout no racist, they ready to die, eye for an eye
[04:22.105] 2 losses for one, take it however it come
[04:24.249] You black, better get you a gun
[04:25.805] I ain't dying for nothing, but anyone shooting my son, I'm coming to shoot at the son
[04:28.414] And **** white supremacy and all of the business that been supportive of it since it begun
[04:31.483] Gotta cancel our orders, do that for our daughters and all of our sisters, we owe it to them
[04:34.605] No hesitation, gon' go up for them
[04:36.235] The [?] of my future, I blew it for them
[04:37.786] Attack [?], especially now that the Lord with me
[04:40.878] Heavenly Father, I can't hold back these tears
[04:45.306] Niggas been sufferin' for years (Sufferin' for years)
[04:47.833] Can't get a break down here (Can't seem to get a break down here)
[04:53.460] Cover my children, we shouldn't be livin' in fear
[04:57.936] People just tryin' to live (Tryin' to live)
[04:59.973] Can't get a break down here (Can't seem to get a break down here)
[05:07.071] Another black man killed by police again
[05:09.753] Another child with a father they'll never see again
[05:12.795] That's all I see when I turn my TV to CNN (That's all I see)
[05:15.963] Wonder when it's gon' stop, when we gon' see an end (When it's gon' stop)
[05:19.265] Yeah, free all the homies that's still in the cage (Free the homies)
[05:22.315] Over-sentenced by crooked judges and racist D.A.'s
[05:25.465] Racism in the system is harder
[05:28.100] Sentenced a little harsher 'cause my skin a little darker, look (Talk to 'em)
[05:31.657] We deal with all kinds of injustice
[05:34.138] My uncle died in police custody and not a cop was arrested
[05:38.197] Sometimes I wish that Obama could've got reelected
[05:41.041] The black vote is our power and we got to protect it
[05:44.235] The people want change, so don't think it's strange when you see
[05:47.323] The people enraged from being enslaved to the [?]
[05:50.515] Would eventually get up and swing back, fight back
[05:52.575] Even niggas to police, the people is ready to strike back, like that
[05:55.564] Leavin' us dead in the streets, the people are heated, strike match, like that
[05:58.693] Televised so you can see it, the people, they need it, the scene is white-black
[06:01.954] Too bad that we had to die, how many more men do they gonna kill?
[06:04.463] No need to pretend 'cause this shit is real
[06:06.019] Don't be blinded by the red and blue lights
[06:08.376] It's time to ride, it's time to rise up
[06:12.095] Pay attention and open your eyes up, a little wider
[06:13.758] Maybe we need to think a little wiser, reach higher
[06:15.187] Can be the incredible, the success is inevitable
[06:17.691] Innovators, creators, and motivators, for some reason they act like they scared of us though
[06:20.873] So they wanted us grown, they wanted us raised
[06:22.485] That will not flow, so we gotta beef
[06:23.987] We lettin' 'em know we ain't finna be takin' this shit no more
[06:26.309] No justice no peace, this means war
[06:28.074] What do ya think they screamin' for?
[06:29.630] Figured it's time that we givin' the score
[06:31.042] So I got a question for 'em, a message for 'em
[06:33.175] What about us?
[06:33.662] I heard somebody say that all lives matter, but not in this matter
[06:36.371] Black lives matter right now, that's all that matters
[06:39.726] Y'all president messy and immature
[06:42.524] Full of shit, cow manure
[06:46.123] I might not know politics, but I know prejudice
[06:49.173] And Santa Claus ain't got nothin' to do with Jesus
[06:52.005] His hair was like wool, and it was nappy (It was nappy)
[06:55.564] I put that on God, his pappy (His pappy)
[06:59.053] Preach
[06:59.559] Dear sister, look I'm sorry for the things I did
[07:01.863] When they kill ya in the darkness, we ran and hid
[07:04.932] We were ripped from our families, didn't raise our kids
[07:08.004] But shit, who raised us?
[07:09.378] We got used to the pain, it didn't faze us
[07:11.483] I don't want change, I wanna take aim at our oppressor
[07:14.521] 'Til my pistol's in his ****in' mouth, yours is on the dresser at the crib
[07:18.017] And if we march, then let's mob to where he lives
[07:20.605] Bandanas on our ****in' faces, peace to Freddie Gibbs
[07:23.511] Get capped on your song, bitch, I don't kneel
[07:26.569] I'm from the home of Medgar Evers and where Emmett Till got killed
[07:30.206] **** the NFL and basketball and weak-ass deals
[07:33.105] Black kids out here dyin', **** how white folks feel
[07:36.189] Young bitch
[07:37.691] Repeat after me
[07:38.240] People power (People power)
[07:39.161] Political power (Political power)
[07:40.799] Economic power (Economic power)
[07:42.455] Say his name (George Floyd)
[07:44.317] Say his name (George Floyd)
[07:46.197] Say his name (George Floyd)