They Don’t Know

[Chorus: Goapele]
They don't know where I'm coming from they don't know
They don't know where I'm coming from they don't know
They don't know where I'm coming from they don't know
They don't know where I'm coming from they don't know

[Verse 1: Amir Sulaiman]
Where we're coming is struggling, hustling
Before my brothers were drug smuggling
Our fore fathers were smuggled in
Like raw white powder
Wet black bodies
Packed like packs bricks in the bottom of ships
And when them ships hit the docks
Like the Raw to to rock
Men turned to slaves would neither forgive nor forgot
So before my bullets were hustled on the block
Our fore mothers were hustled on auction blocks
Like stocks on Wall Street
So these are our streets
And I'll protect them whatever it cost me
What was built on our great grandmothers back
Now lays beneath our feet
So it's our responsibility
SO open her honor
These are our streets
Upon your honor these are our streets

[Chorus: Goapele]
They don't know where he's coming from they don't know
They don't know where he's coming from they don't know
Tell them where you're coming from so they know
Tell them where you're coming from so they know

[Verse 2: Amir Sulaiman]
Live free
It's easy to say
But it's harder to do
Gotta ittaq'illah
Go hard for the truth
My brothers are scare to death they go hard for the youth
But the youth going' hard for the convertible coupe
I said 'tryna go hard to converge with the crew'
Converge my crew with the words of a coup
I said it's cool nigga do what it do
But don't give love to the system that's murdering me

[Chorus: Goapele]
The world is tasking me but you said keep on shining
Though I feel what some could do to me
If I can't have hope what's the use of being
Can you see where I'm coming from you should know
Can you see where I'm coming from you should know
I wish for things that may not come but who knows
I wish for things that may not come but who knows