I Am Here (Trust Me)

Lyrics

[Intro] H-H-H-Hazy [Verse 1: JK-47] You think you above me Now you be quick to come and judge me I wonder why you just can't love me Damn, it's gettin' ugly Down about a thousand in some fines And wanna make me pay your price with my life? Try make it nice, put your reasons and excuses down But you'll see the worth of your words useless now The truth is out You puttin' labels on your own kind Prejudice and hatred got you makin' up your own mind So blind toward the fact that I am more than black You lyin' to yourself and everybody else And let my people die inside them cells When you were meant to help Don't talk about the struggle when it's more than mental health So what we gotta do to see our daughters livin' well? 'Cause we ain't doin' this ourselves when they ask, "How come?" It's the outcome of bein' brought up in this hell Tell me get a bucket, but there ain't no water in the well Nah, I ain't stupid, brah So I'm on the watch when the copper cruises past Because I'm black, I can never tell the two apart If he's a cop or just a dog tryna chew my arse I'ma spit it for my peers and my brothers, fuck the shoes and cars I ain't in it for your "Ooh"s and "Ah"s I'm doin' this for my community And half my people don't know who to be Reason bein', we got no identity [Pre-Chorus: JK-47] We don't know who to be 'Cause they robbed us of our identity Nah, we don't know who to be 'Cause they robbed of us of our identities [Chorus: JK-47, JK-47 & Phoebe Jacobs] So look, I'ma do it for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal Ayy, yeah, I do this for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal, yeah Ayy, I said I do this for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal Yeah, I'ma do it for my people Can't stop, and I won't stop till it's equal [Post-Chorus: JK-47 & Phoebe Jacobs, JK-47] We don't wanna be here We don't wanna go, where we gonna go? We just want peace, yeah A place to call home, you are not alone I am here with you Sister, keep your head up, brother, don't you let up I am here with you I know you feelin' fed up, don't you ever give up I am here, trust me [Verse 2: JK-47] I feel like the walls been cavin' in Guess now I'm caught up in this state again I swear the game's playin' me, I can't find a way to win Been blazin' since a kid, I been tryna shake it since Waitin' for the day I do, but my patience been paper thin Yet and still all the while I do this for my family That's why an only child ain't really understandin' me Come walk a hundred miles trapped in the fact That because you're black, you get no slack from a judge or a jack So I ain't slackin', I'ma let 'em have it Give a damn about your black robes or your badges 'Cause I got that black magic Kinda shit that have you wiggin' out Full spinnin' out on me like, "The heck happened?" I been at 'em with the rhyme you cannot fathom Yeah, hard times, you know I had 'em Watchin' that rain pitter-patter Thinkin' my life didn't matter no more As I fall to the floor, lookin' at God like, "What you mad at me for?" [Pre-Chorus: JK-47] Man How the hell did we get here? How we livin' like this? Do they not care about us? What are we supposed to do? Nah, we don't know who to be (I need to get out of here) 'Cause they robbed us of our identities (Uh) (Get me out of here) [Chorus: JK-47, JK-47 & Phoebe Jacobs] So look, I'ma do it for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal Ayy, yeah, I do this for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal, yeah Ayy, I said I do this for my people Can't stop, won't stop until it's equal Yeah, I'ma do it for my people Can't stop, and I won't stop till it's equal [Post-Chorus: JK-47 & Phoebe Jacobs, JK-47] We don't wanna be here We don't wanna go, where we gonna go? We just want peace, yeah A place to call home, you are not alone I am here with you Sister, keep your head up, brother, don't you let up I am here with you I know you feelin' fed up, don't you ever give up I am here, trust me