Equalize

You might be scared but we must go now

We're fighting for our race

I know the road we must travel

In order to survive and equalize this

 

Alright, first, this ain't just bars or some pretentious verse

It's an attempt to destroy contempt and dispel this curse

Why does a higher content of melanin mean

That I'm supposed to be an outcast spreading felony on the streets?

Is being black a sin? Explain to my next of kin

Why he's being treated like he's been, how should we begin

To turn the tide, stop spinning around and show the dirty side

I'm not spitting my vows in vain, I want to compromise

I need to live, I don't wanna just survive

I need to see where we're headed with our lives

All my sisters and brothers

Prospering without taking money from others

But now the institution aggravates miseducation

All the prosecution generating altercation

Prostitution leads to self-perpetuation

And the constitution of confusion populates incarceration

 

You might be scared but we must go now

We're fighting for our race

I know the road we must travel

In order to survive and equalize this

 

D for Devastation, N for Negro Nation

A for Absence of places for child recreation

As I break down DNA, you understand the problems

Many years gone by, still don't know how to solve 'em

But it shouldn't be hard to impose some authority

Stuck in a timewarp, we're still a suffering minority

The will to be what we are oughtta be comes from inside

It's not a fantasy, we need to respect ourselves so we can thrive

Tired of hearing excuses, man I cannot hear these

Phrases that you say, I don't believe this

You say "racism is a thing from the past"

Paint yourself with pitch and try to take a single cab

You wanna take part in my culture

But you'll never understand the pain I go through and what my forefathers suffered

I didn't stutter. Just take my shoes and walk a mile

They took my soul for centuries, and now they're expecting me to smile.