To Be Me

Man, if only you could be in this skin, bear witness to the pain that I feel within

Chorus:
Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
(Yeah)
Me

Verse 1:
Yo first they went and killed Malcolm
Then they went and killed Martin
So I put it all in my album
Kids’ll hear it might spark ‘em
This a generation of music
Kids don’t wanna hear talkin’
Old heads be tryna confuse ‘em
Lose ‘em with all of that arguin’ so
Turn me up and then watch me rock
O. Savant I will not be stopped
I’m a prophet of modern times
Teachin’ children to not be thots
Twerkin’ all in that vine light
You berserk with no mind like
You just ignorant just need attention
Don’t know you’re worth more than five likes
Maybe not
That’s why elders call it crazy times
Still stuck in the middle of the ‘80s huh?
When rappers spoke truth to the babies, why
Did it have to stop? I guess it got a bit hectic
Can’t afford no n*ggas with a message
So we settle for the death wish
Death kiss but I’m here to resurrect it

Chorus:
Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me

Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me

Verse 2:
Hands up don’t shoot me
We all know that that’s usually
Not how it goes ‘cause the youth be
Dispensable ‘cause of movies
And the videos show us cooning
Over-sexualized crooning
Unintelligent autotuning
Suburban kids think it’s cool see
They be like, “it’s just entertainment”
But who are we entertainin’?
When the image of a young black man
Got police thinkin’ I’m slangin’
Now they pullin’ me over, I hate it
Scared to think what they thinkin’
Analyzin’ they language
Better pray for no altercations
The both of us we got babies
If you kill me then you skatin’
If I kill you then I’m satan
Won’t see my kids graduatin’
Waitin’ ’til I wither inmatin’
Or the lethal sedation
So back to your entertainment
How is this entertainin’?

Chorus:
Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me

Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me

Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me

Just so you know
Nobody knows
What it is to know
What it is to be
Like me
Me