The Hopeless Kids*

[Verse]
They claim you a enemy
When your skin as black as me
A war upon my people, know I might be a casualty
They murder us casually
Then tell you to march in peace
Kill us in peace and expect that we match the energy
But homie we fed up
Look what they fed us
And throw it in your face like "How you ain't full of bread crumbs?"
'Cause this is America
Murders on cameras
But you can still make a dollar so that shouldn't matter much
I guess we don't need justice
If we could go make a ducket
So I should flash my paystub when they stop me for driving while colored
Money might solve your problems
Ours are bigger than dollars
We tried to tell you about 'em, y'all only listen to violence
Now I'm confused
A cop murdered George before the loots
You got a thesis on the riots, on his death you were mute
You being picky with your silence
Is you shouting from a roof
Let's forget about a black life, all lives matter too
I heard you speaking on a thing that we should check
Labeled the riots as George Floyd disrespect
Stop it
'Cause the riots a product of neglect
And you clearly ain't hear me screaming when your knee was on my neck
This is years in the making, y'all kill us and get away with it
A system built for killers, think it's time we see some change in it
'Cause if I murked someone on camera and the cops know where I'm lampin' up
Would I get to sleep in bed tonight even though they had me dead to rights?
FUCK NO
But a cop can
Actually seems they give him a hand when he kills a black man
How does it not enrage you?
Did you let 'em enslave you?
Or do you really not give a fuck if that shit doesn't phase you?
Now everybody got suggestions on what's most effective
Some saying to meet neglection with local elections
So that's how we defeat a racist, what's really the message
That we know the racist reigning and the system protects 'em
So kill the whole system or show us where's the growth in it
Asking folk to play the game but we don't see no hope in it
Shit feel like it been the same, you saying somebody voted this?
Only got themselves to blame, of course it's gon' explode a bit
Should've known this shit from the hopeless kids