What Inspires Me?
What Inspires Me?
They never even heard us
Until they wanna blame us
We taken the shots
Hits to strong to even block
Black kids feel like they have to carry around a glock
Never even trying
When no one cares that they are dying
Thinking they are gang-bangers and drug addicts
Saying they are just going to be another convict
So they breathing in the smoke
Big brothers hand around so tight trying to choke
Some kids wish they never even spoke
Knowing they are just some statistics
Whites believe they are just some bombs ticking
Not knowing they are lighting the fuse, when they are tearing them from their parents arms kicking and screaming!
When they are throwing the bombs making the tears come out our eyes!
When they glamorize the uncivilized advertisement of our demise!
When they lock up children without a thought, with grown adults, knowing the result!
When they shoot a CHILD as young as 12, laying in bed shot him in the middle of the night just because he fit a profile!
Just because he fit a depiction of the white man’s description just to get a couple looks and daily subscription.
How can they just put us on some paper in some letters an ink, without even taking a second to think, without a second to blink, that maybe this is the broken link in this chain that is bringing America to its brink!
This is what inspires me
Why can’t they just let us relax and be
I write day and night
Knowing this is my only way to put up a fight
Hoping they will see our light shining so bright
They always claiming our music
But making where we stand pretty lucid
They always claiming our style
But wants to put us in orange jumpsuits walking in single file
They always taking our words and our slang
But make us listen to the sound of the judge’s gavel rang
They always taking our culture
But don’t want to take our colour!
Their hero’s are our villain
Using their guns as penicillin like we are an infection that they are killin
Police cry gang at the sight of black men
We cry gang at the sight of policemen
We are the children of the founding fathers too
Even though it was racism that they spew, you would think that we would have had a breakthrough
This isn’t something new, but I’m hoping my words will cut through
Cause this is something everybody needs to attend to