BUILDING BLUEPRINT
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- I hate to do this, but I gotta call out a whole race
- Black people are keeping whites stuck in their old ways
- Hear me out, I thought this through the whole way
- And it's been a heavy burden that's been on my soul's weight
- I thought about why blacks have a negative image
- Less intelligent, aggressive, just let me finish
- I realized color wasn't the root cause of condemning
- And it hit me, from here, you'll be with me or against me
- Consider this, imagine these aliens, two colors
- And we'll say, BLUE and GREEN, and they live amongst each other
- A huge segment of the BLUE aliens are fans of a craft
- where others rhyme about violence and celebrate it
- Pants sag in the back, subculture was created
- They're hostile and aggressive, then wonder why they're hated
- To the GREEN ones, all these BLUES look menacing
- They can't tell the difference between them and a normal citizen
- The GREENS didn't wake up and decide to hate the BLUES
- Perception was built by all the crimes that make the news
- They don't hate different colors arbitrarily
- No hate for red or yellow ones, so apparently
- it's not color, but personality traits, inherently
- dominant in BLUES, it's true, it isn't heresy
- Can't fix what's broken till we acknowledge it
- Don't support violent culture, admonish it
- Can't blame 'em for not accepting with open arms
- People that's angry, aggressive, probably toting arms
- I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping harm
- Would come to all ghetto thugs, bunch of little bugs
- If not for the thugs, and the ghetto rappers
- We might actually be moving the opposite of backwards
- Now let me tell you something about racism
- Then you'll see that I'm not just someone with hate in him
- When I mention terrorism, what group you think of
- Japanese or Middle East, your brain can link up
- past events and compare it to what's now happening
- And predict a probable future cause it's been mapping it
- Stereotypes don't just happen by accident
- If we didn't know what criminals looked like, how would we know
- to walk our kids in the opposite way the vandals went
- Without a knowledge base, everything would feel random then
- Knowledge is built from experience and repetition
- It's not a stereotype, it's your brain's recognition
- It sees something, compares what it knows about it
- We know what criminals looks like, let's make no bones about it
- There's a difference between stereotype and superstition
- The former applies past facts to everything
- that looks the same. The latter is about black cats and ladders
- I'm on a ruthless mission to smack rap and the crooks to blame
- For the image of blacks, stop and think a minute
- Forget political correctness, and stop being offended
- Think of why stereotypes exist in the first place
- Then we can own the issue, and fix this cursed race
- Prejudice isn't random, for the most part, Chinese and Indians
- aren't seen as dumb, they're seen as both smart
- Just like the stereotype about math and Asians
- There's a reason for that, and it's not your imagination
- Throughout your life, you've seen plenty of examples
- of traits more in one group than would be in a random sample
- For example, if three out of ten pitbulls bit you
- Apologies to the seven, I have nothing against you
- Just looking I can't tell which group you fit into
- We don't see people impartially, we just pretend to
- Without a form of bias we wouldn't even be alive
- The cavemen would've died, we evolved to do or die
- Bottom line, urban means thug till proven otherwise
- Police are shooting thugs, none of the other brothers died
- Most folks aren't randomly racist out of nowhere
- Even blacks move from the hood, avoid having to go there
- And on the street, if you see two urban black dudes
- Don't lie, you evaluate whether they could attack you
- Our society says, "you're not allowed to hate this"
- Criticize blacks and you'll get labeled a racist
- But it's not racist to hate ignorance and foolishness
- Again, not the color, of course good blacks do exist
- The good ones are unfairly linked by color with the bad
- After years of fighting Injustice, I hit The Lab
- I finally solved the puzzle, in no uncertain terms
- The urban look goes with crime like dirt and worms
- Yeah those are hurting words but I gotta be aggressive
- I gotta dig up the truth that everyone's repressing
- Been screaming for years about getting equal treatment
- No one ever examined why we failed to achieve it
- Calling out whites as if it was without a doubt
- But the phone calls been coming from inside the house
- Been blaming whites for supposedly being racist
- The problem is thugs, how many times I gotta say this
- Of course there's racist hate groups and extremists
- I'm talking about everyday people like Joe and Sue
- I guarantee they'll agree if you show them what I'm showing you
- None of this is theory, I lived it I seen it
- Saw it, I'm not saying it to be mean, I'm saying it cause I mean it
- I gotta solve it, no one else is speaking
- Eventually everything I said will become proverbs
- in hindsight, I connect lines like crosswords
- Thugs and rappers are poisoning the black image
- So I'm bashing hood culture and everyone that's in it
- Rap's finished, no more defending them
- Other than NF, Dan Bull, and Eminem
- Remember the picture test? Now picture this
- What society is expecting of us ridiculous
- Asking soccer moms to accept black vermin
- Thugs that is, offended when she acts nervous
- From her eyes, everyone's a thug who's hip hop slash urban
- Like we judge guys who have turbans
- She's not racist, go back to my earlier statements
- What do thugs look like? Then look who she's facing
- So instead of debating, let's clearly state the facts
- It's the ghetto scum that makes people hate the blacks
- And the innocent victims are the young black men
- Who aren't thugs, but has an image that they're trapped in
- And every culture has their own clothes they like to wear
- If you're black and dress urban, there's a price to bear
- To an outsider, you'll look like a real thug
- That's the black experience, innocent and still judged
- I'm on a warpath to restore back respect to blacks
- You can help me, or keep defending the infected rats
- I'm fuming, if you don't see the truth in what I'm doing
- You're part of the problem, in denial, or just stupid
- For those that are with me, I do have a solution
- I'll explain in my next song exactly how we'll do this
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