I Hope They Remember You (*Thanos*)

Where my thugs at, come on put your hands up

Keep 'em where I can see 'em, and pull your pants up

Raise up your image, take off the handcuffs

Cause and effect, y'all need to understand 'em

Thugs and rappers make the race look dumb

Our race is a disaster cause it's laced with scum

You nameless bums will really hate this one

Prejudice sucks, but don't walk around as a pirate,

And cry when, you get mistaken as one

You make the stereotypes you brainless runts

Let me spell it out, cause your minds are dull

Because of rap culture, you're kind of all

Mindless, can't comprehend cause and effect

Too biased, that led to your loss of respect

Let's say pirates are bad, as an objective fact

Are you with me so far, are you gonna object to that?

If a guy has a peg leg and wears an eye patch

Plus a parrot on his shoulder, you think pirate, why's that?

It's the visual cues, you tell by eyeing it

The same way you tell a biker from a scientist

If they accused you of stereotyping 'em

And judging on looks, instead of what's inside of 'em

That's dumb, you strut with your head cocked, angry

The main reason you feel like that, is you feel

Oppressed and, you turned aggressive, put your hood on and

Exposing yourself, you can't even put on pants

You serious? You expect to be seen with integrity

Anyone that disagrees at this point is dead to me

We've had many proverbial doors close

This whole time we had on a criminal's wardrobe

If your with your toddler and you see a Pit Bull

Are you thinking, "they're not all the same, it's cool"

No, and it's not personal, you don't hate them

You recognize patterns, you know their reputation

If it's a Golden Retriever, not all that concerned

Might bite, probably won't, these are all facts confirmed

Look in the mirror, what do we look like?

Awfully similar to how rappers and crooks might

It's because of those scoundrels/pirates

Those crooks that cause the police to flash sirens

That the rest of us in costume seem violent

This my life's cause now, I'll never cease firing

Y'all need tough love, from an extreme titan

To break it down brutally, and say **** thugs

I'm not playing , this is not parody

I'll cure your blindness through shock therapy

We're so behind, need to catch everyone up

Every one of us, been misled, by those activists

In the community, if those cowards would've said,

Even half of this, spoke with impunity

We wouldn't be looked down upon so foolishly

They have y'all focused on the wrong target

Soon as we, see that, we end the lunacy

These activists are actually doing more harm than

Good, they're distracting from the real culprits

They've been protected, I'm knocking the shields off them

Y'all defend hoodlums as if it's personal

You don't see other groups protecting the worst of 'em

You don't see them defend trailer trash red necks

If they wanna act retarded, by all means let them

Whites don't fight tooth and nail to defend them

If someone trashes red necks, whites aren't offended

Say the word black, can't finish the sentence

You perked up defensive before the line even ended

It's a defense mechanism, you know there's a problem

But y'all rather deny it, instead of trying to solve 'em

Everybody's lying, all the stats are biased

That's why I'm, deprogramming lies that you go by

If you're sailing the seas, and there's pirates close by

Wouldn't you be on guard, wouldn't you keep a close eye?

And it's not cause you have anything against the group

But now the pirate community is quick to sentence you

As being racist, but you only reacted naturally

What, you supposed to act like they weren't dastardly?

We need to rethink the definition of racist

Even those who say they are, too dumb to explain it,

But they're not against the color, they're against the traits in

People, some might hate just cause of an accent

Some may hate greed, it's not color, it's actions

Just like when you think of certain terrorist factions

Most likely you think of specific regions

What would suck though, is if you happened to be from there

And though you have nothing else in common with 'em even

To the majority, unfortunately you're seen as,

Being part of the dangerous group, since those crimes

Are committed at a higher rate by those who look the same as you

If certain things are done more by certain groups

Of course folks'll be labeled, when not deserving to

It's not color, it's the uniform you wear

If your team commits fouls, it's not the other team

Throwing you under the bus, your own team's throwing you there

Step back and look at some of the cultural norms you share

These activists are jokes, screwing the masses

Protesting reactions, from people, to crimes committed

Instead of condemning , the ones doing the actions

Mrs. Parks should've left you fools in the back then

Y'all are disgracing everyone who fought for the rights

Your ignorance proves the point of the alternate right

Ultimate paradox, you cause your discrimination

No one wants thugs in a place where kids are raised in

It's not black and white, that notion held you back

I taught myself to rhyme, in order to tell you that

This was my goal, ever since I stomped in

They don't hate you cause of color, they hate you cause of content

U Mad? Speak up and respond then

I'll take the gloves off, and put on a gauntlet

Shattered your reality, dismantled it

To free you from your cages, I had to rattle it

Took the thoughts of those like me and channeled it

I hope they remember you, the scum I battled with

You're the reason for the problems we're all saddled with

I'll bring balance using rap to do what Thanos did