[00:17.91]Pulled into the parking lot parked it
[00:19.68]Zipped up my parka joined the procession of marchers
[00:22.18]
[00:23.09]In my head like is this awkward
[00:24.93]Should I even be here marching
[00:26.94]Thinking if they can't how can I breathe
[00:29.17]Thinking that they chant what do I sing
[00:31.22]I want to take a stance cause we are not free
[00:33.45]And then I thought about it we are not we
[00:35.34]
[00:35.93]Am I in the outside looking in or am I in the inside looking out
[00:39.47]
[00:40.26]Is it my place to give my two cents
[00:42.10]Or should I stand on the side and shut my mouth
[00:44.21]No justice no peace okay I'm saying that
[00:47.71]They're chanting out black lives matter but I don't say it back
[00:51.89]
[00:53.08]Is it okay for me to say I don't know so I watch and stand
[00:56.36]In front of a line of police that look the same as me
[00:59.11]Only separated by a badge a baton a can of mace a mask
[01:02.70]A shield a gun with gloves and hands that gives an alibi
[01:05.26]In case somebody dies behind a bullet that flies out of the 9
[01:08.10]Takes another child's life on sight
[01:09.53]
[01:10.20]Blood in the streets no justice no peace
[01:14.24]No racist beliefs no rest 'til we're free
[01:18.54]There's blood in the streets no justice no peace
[01:22.94]No racist beliefs no rest 'til we're free
[01:26.95]
[01:27.64]Blood in the streets no justice no peace
[01:31.65]No racist beliefs no rest 'til we're free
[01:36.05]There's blood in the streets no justice no peace
[01:40.45]No racist beliefs no rest 'til we're free
[01:44.59]
[01:46.97]You've exploited and stolen the music the moment
[01:49.14]The magic the passion the fashion you toy with
[01:51.29]The culture was never yours to make better
[01:53.47]You're miley you're Elvis you're Iggy azalea
[01:55.70]Fake and so plastic you've heisted the magic
[01:57.82]You've taken the drums and the accent you rapped in
[02:00.08]You're branded hip-hop it's so fascist and backwards
[02:02.22]That grand master flashed go slap it you bastard
[02:04.39]All the money that you made
[02:05.52]All the watered down pop-******** version of the culture pal
[02:08.55]Go buy a big-ass lawn go with your big-ass house
[02:10.71]Get a big-ass fence keep people out
[02:13.00]It's all stubborn anyway can't you see that now
[02:15.18]There's no way for you to even that out
[02:17.30]You can join the march protest scream and shout
[02:19.48]Get on twitter hash tag and seem like you're down
[02:21.66]But they see through it all people believe you now
[02:23.92]You said publicly rest in peace mike brown
[02:26.22]You speak about equality but do you really mean it
[02:28.47]Are you marching for freedom or when it's convenient
[02:30.48]Want people to like you want to be accepted
[02:32.66]That's probably why you are out here protesting
[02:34.87]Don't think for a second you don't have incentive
[02:37.03]Is this about you well then what's your intention
[02:39.22]
[02:40.46]What's the intention what's the intention
[02:43.76]
[03:20.61]Psst I totally get it you're by yourself
[03:22.44]And the last thing you want to do is take a picture
[03:24.42]But seriously my little girl loves you
[03:26.47]She's always singing I'm gonna pop some tags
[03:29.26]I'm not kidding my oldest you even got him to go thrifting
[03:32.59]And one love oh my god that song brilliant
[03:35.69]Their aunt is gay when that song came out
[03:37.92]My son told his whole class he was actually proud
[03:40.84]That's so cool look what you're accomplishing
[03:44.11]Even the old mom like me likes it cause it's positive
[03:46.75]You're the only hip-hop that I let my kids listen to
[03:49.40]Cause you get it all that negative stuff it isn't cool
[03:52.35]Yeah
[03:52.87]Yeah like all the guns and the drugs
[03:54.54]The *****es and the hoes and the gangs and the thugs
[03:57.10]Even the protest outside so sad and so dumb
[04:00.03]If a cop pulls you over it's your fault if you run
[04:02.52]
[04:05.38]Huh
[04:05.70]
[04:06.37]So they feel that the police are discriminating against the the black people
[04:10.56]I have an advantage why
[04:12.23]Cause I'm white what no
[04:15.22]See more people nowadays are just pussies
[04:17.49]Like this is the generation to be offended by everything
[04:20.42]Black lives matter' thing is a reason to take arms up over perceived slights
[04:27.44]I'm not prejudiced I just
[04:29.15]99% of the time across this country the police are doing their job properly
[04:32.63]
[04:33.29]Damn a lot of opinions a lot of confusion a lot of resentment
[04:37.83]Some of us scared some of us defensive
[04:39.97]
[04:40.61]And most of us aren't even paying attention
[04:42.62]
[04:43.46]It seems like we're more concerned with being called racist
[04:46.43]
[04:47.22]Than we actually are with racism
[04:48.64]
[04:50.10]I've heard that silences are action and god knows that I've been passive
[04:53.77]
[04:54.38]What if I actually read a article actually had a dialogue
[04:57.45]Actually looked at myself actually got involved
[05:00.48]If I'm aware of my privilege and do nothing at all I don't know
[05:04.72]
[05:05.93]Hip-hop has always been political yes
[05:07.66]
[05:08.21]It's the reason why this music connects
[05:09.70]
[05:10.29]So what the **** has happened to my voice
[05:12.17]If I stay silent when black people are dying
[05:14.27]Then I'm trying to be politically correct
[05:15.84]
[05:16.43]I can book a whole tour sell out the tickets
[05:19.28]Rap entrepreneur built his own business
[05:22.13]If I'm only in this for my own self
[05:24.17]Interest not the culture that gave me a voice to begin with
[05:27.35]Then this isn't authentic it is just a gimmick
[05:30.14]The DIY underdog so independent
[05:32.77]But the one thing the American dream fails to mention
[05:35.86]Is I was many steps ahead to begin with
[05:38.45]My skin matches the hero likeness the image
[05:41.22]America feels safe with my music in their systems
[05:43.86]And it's suited me perfect the role I've fulfilled it
[05:46.62]And if I'm the hero you know who gets cast as the villain
[05:49.67]White supremacy isn't just a white dude in Idaho
[05:52.40]White supremacy protects the privilege I hold
[05:55.05]White supremacy is the soil the foundation the cement
[05:57.87]And the flag that flies outside of my home
[06:00.50]White supremacy is our country's lineage designed for us to be Indifferent
[06:05.91]My success is the product of the same system
[06:08.84]That let off Darren Wilson guilty
[06:11.03]We want to dress like walk like talk like dance like yet
[06:14.75]We just stand by
[06:15.45]
[06:16.47]We take all we want from black culture
[06:18.15]
[06:19.19]But will we show up for black lives
[06:21.11]
[06:21.75]We want to dress like walk like talk like dance
[06:24.67]Like yet we just stand by
[06:26.40]
[06:27.36]We take all we want from black culture
[06:29.32]
[06:30.08]But will we show up for black lives
[06:31.93]
[06:35.00]Black lives matter to use an analogy is like if
[06:37.28]If there was a subdivision and a house was on fire
[06:39.46]The fire department wouldn't show up
[06:41.46]And start putting water on all the houses because all houses matter
[06:45.06]They would show up and they would turn their water on the house
[06:47.50]That was burning because that's the house that needs the help the most
[06:49.71]My generation's taken on the torch of a very age-old fight for black liberation
[06:56.09]
[06:56.89]But also liberation for everyone injustice anywhere is still injustice everywhere
[07:03.70]The best thing white people can do is talk to each other
[07:06.56]Having those very difficult very painful conversations with your parents
[07:10.95]With your family members
[07:12.41]
[07:12.93]I think one of the critical questions for white people in this society is
[07:16.31]What are you willing to risk
[07:17.76]What are you willing to sacrifice to create a more just society
[07:20.46]
[07:22.72]Your silence is a luxury hip-hop is not a luxury
[07:30.48]
[07:32.97]Your silence is a luxury hip-hop is not a luxury
[07:40.70]
[07:43.26]Your silence is a luxury hip-hop is not a luxury
[07:51.01]
[07:53.27]Your silence is a luxury hip-hop is not a luxury
[08:01.02]
[08:02.41]What I got for me it is for me
[08:06.06]
[08:07.51]What we made we made to set us free
[08:11.42]
[08:12.63]What I got for me it is for me
[08:16.34]
[08:17.75]What we made we made to set us free
[08:21.56]
[08:22.93]What I got for me it is for me
[08:26.40]
[08:27.91]What we made we made to set us free