Systematic oppression is not a topic to be swept under the rug. Afro Dope references Nat Turner with a loaded weapon alluding to no longer allowing such mistreatment to continue on our watch. As the song continues you can hear the artist battling with which decision to make: Help the world progress...
[Intro]
Yo check it listen. I know I'm not a statistic unless there's credit given to the life I am living
If I question the establishment then I end up just vanishing / Blaming y'all abandonment
[Verse 1]
Black Panthers, don't have to pander / Just another chapter, unnatural disaster / Can we avenge for the blood that was plastered / Or are we no better than them as the attackers?
Police are the new terrorist / News adding embellishment / Just to make it decorative / They deserve it we melanin / Yo I am sensing negligence / You think of us as venison / Knocking at the door of equality you gon let us in?
[Hook]
We stuck up in a system where they wanted us in prison / It was a successful mission they supervise how we living / Minority, prison majority, no authority / Mimicking my work of art that's forgery / Black magic gotta be bad? That's sorcery / Struggle all in the stanza that's poetry /
Fans get excited by the real that's dopamine / Forced to listen to your fake truth that's torturing
[Verse 2]
Imagine if Nat Turner could tote a burner / That's me on the microphone, straight murder / Yo wish you were in my shoes not vice versa / It's time to boss up or at least be a worker
Oldheads holding on to the past / That was part of they life, so I can't be mad / Why would I put em down I should be greatful and glad for the fact / They went through it so I ain't have to go through that
Can I blame you for what your ancestors did? / I don't know if that's the way I wanna live. / If you had to choose fight back or submit? / I can only take so much before I flip
Systematic, disrespect is automatic / Tell me just bury the hatchet and forget it ever happen / All that I can say is tragic cause you moving off of habit / Did you miss the history lesson of the schematics
[Hook]
We stuck up in a system where they wanted us in prison / It was a successful mission they supervise how we living / Minority, prison majority, no authority / Mimicking my work of art that's forgery / Black magic gotta be bad? That's sorcery / Struggle all in the stanza that's poetry /
Fans get excited by the real that's dopamine / Forced to listen to your fake truth that's torturing
[Outro]
Its not complex to view my everyday struggles RIP to Nipsey Hussle / Underground on lock like a trap tunnel / Secure bags all year and I won't fumble
Systematic was written by Afro Dope.
Systematic was produced by Dran Fresh.
Afro Dope released Systematic on Fri May 01 2020.