In the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others, NYC activists organized a protest in the predominantly white, and notoriously racist south shore of Staten Island, NY. Leading up to the protest, Facebook groups and twitter rants of scared soccer moms,...
[Verse 1]
I’m raking in all the good will
Pays to be a friend of mine
I don’t just say let’s build
I set a date and time
I’m sharing all my info
With all my kinfolk
Need you running at 100
I see your potential
We need this alliance
We need you defiant
They brutalize even when we’re compliant
We Mourning the dead with no moments of silence
We Peacefully protest they called it a riot
Signing petitions we quoting statistics
So Don’t go deleting our rants
Ball a fist with your hand
Put in the air
I need you leading a chant
Yo
[Hook 1]
Change gone come
Fuck that
We made some
Love that
States defund
Run that
Surrounding the precinct from front to back
[Verse 2]
Peep the unrest
Ain’t some bad apples to weed out keep all the rest
‘Cause we Tried to take a knee they put a knee to the neck
Ayo
The kente In Congress is cool but fuck all that cumbaye shit
We don’t need you if you can’t understand turn the highway into a mosh pit
And your whole Facebook group just sound stupid
When you seeing all this shooting but still talking about looting
I don’t want to hear about his rap sheet homie you sound asinine
I don’t wanna hear black on black crime homie now’s not that time
Ayo
You treat all equal
Cool
We the people who
Claim to not see color but the system still do
‘Cause I could get a Karen to care or instead
Empower the youth and plan an event
Look at these women I look at these men
One of them be the second black pres’
Might take more than a pen and a pad
Bunch of the youth in the pen and I’m mad
You dead ass protesting masks
Immigrants gasping for air getting gassed
Some of these white hoods
Don’t even be hiding their white hoods
They threatened our life
But this is a hill I’d die on
I wrote my goodbyes and I’m good
Long as we got some breathe in our lungs
Didn’t matter they threatened with guns
North to the south in enormous amounts
Loud and proud yeah
We rep’ed where we from
[Hook 2]
Change gone come
Fuck that
We made some
Love that
States defund
Run that
Surrounding the precinct from front to back
Change gone come
Fuck that
We made some
Love that
States defund
Run that
Surrounding the precinct from front to back
Bang
Conference was written by Stefan Barone.
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Stefan Barone released Conference on Fri Oct 30 2020.