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Can I live Can i grow Can I kneel Can I be successful even though I'm black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they lookin at Can I smile Have a job Have a child? Is he a juvenile just because he black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they looking at (Can we live?) We always been taught home of the brave land of the free But honestly dog That sound like some real bull shit to me X got young niggas sitting in school learning white history X juneteenth 13th amendment and somehow we still not free X how you think we'd ever be brothers X we separate laundry by colors X think that them niggas in office love ya? X naw they see numbers above ya Xx look at the color of gangs Xx two parties dont change Xx that red and blue Xx and the cops steady bang Xx might choke you out Xx might leave you to hang Xx they come through hot when its popping off Xx thats we never get cops involved X they might empty the clip to top it off X they go to the courts but drop it all X do our lives matter nigga not at all X paid vacations when they knock us off X it ain't even like the shit is subliminal X call you all kinda names make you think a criminal X thats why niggas afraid to walk down the avenue X get frisked or get tased kicked in face for just skimming through Xx the hurt and the pain got us living all miserable Xx gotta do drastic things make a move make it out and be pivotal Xx even if you struggling in burbs you like this a do Xx white neighbors gone call and complain if yo family ever come visit you Can I live Can i grow Can I kneel Can I be successful even though I'm black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they lookin at Can I smile Have a job Have a child? Is he a juvenile just because he black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they looking at (Can we live?) They say its 2018 ain't no racist exist Well tell me why I still feel the hatred anywhere I live Joined this military thinking it would get me some respect But when I'm outta uniform they be coming at my neck With no collar device on they see just another nigga Same nigga who protect them when he gripping on them triggas Same nigga leave his family for 8 months at a time Just to pull back into land and see my brothers still dying Black mothers still crying dont matter about the crime They gone shoot regardless so you might as well be violent Some white people wanna speak up but they still be hiding Rather act as if the times have changed and everything is fine Base the actions off that person he don't represent our kind Bullseye that's what we been saying for some years Every nigga ain't a thug but yall just dont wanna hear Every nigga ain't gone rob you gone and loosen up your grip We ain't round here selling drugs maybe this just where we live Keep the racism alive and they pass it to their kids Generational hatred that's how 12 year olds get lynch That's mixed kids getting jumped and hear the very worst of names That's how clantee got the jr Kkk disguised as gangs X that's why the same shit yall smoking got my bros in chains X nigga weed ain't fuckin change difference now yall see the bank Yall just do us so dirty and won't even wash the stains Can I live Can i grow Can I kneel Can I be successful even though I'm black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they lookin at Can I smile Have a job Have a child? Is he a juvenile just because he black Can't drive Can't shop Can't thrive Tryna figure what the fuck they looking at