Big Floyd - Intellectual

[intro]

This goes out to:

Sandra Bland

Samuel Dubose

Walter Scott

Mario Woods

Freddie Gray

Gregg Gunn

Trayvon Martin

Tamir Rice

Amaduo Diallo

Sarah Reed

Mark Duggan

Sheky Bayoh

Ricky Bishop

Brian Douglas

Cherry Groce

Habib Ullah

Jean Charles de Menezes

Demetre Frazer

Seni Lewis

Mark Nunes

You thought I was done?

Sean Rigg, Leon Briggs

Adrian Thompson, Ramarley Graham, Leon Patterson

Alton Manning, Alton Sterling

Derek Bennet, Rocky Bennet, Cynthia Jarret

Micheal Powell, Philando Castille, Kingsley Burell, Sean Bell

Eric Garner, Terrence Crutcher, Roger Sylvester, Anthony Grainger, Jimmy Mubenga, Joy Gardener, Christopher Alder, Smiley Culture

Akai Gurley, India Beaty, Ahmaud Arbery, Faruk Ali, Azelle Rodney

John Crawford III, Oscar Grant III

Jamar Clark, Stephon Clark

Iaquan McDonald, Renisha McBride, Aston McLean

Rekia Boyd and big Floyd

[Disclaimer]

Plus anyone who died before, after and whilst making this song to police brutality

[Verse 1]

1500 and counting

The death is amounting

Ethnic minority

Targeted by police brutality

And then they wonder why, its a hate pig mentality

And that’s the reality

[Verse 2]

Because it’s like if you’re black you’re the criminal, you got a be

If your Hispanic your an immigrant, you have to be

It will take a nation of millions to hold us back ask public enemy

But apparently

Black is the enemy

The evidence that we are there is none, evidence that you think that there is plenty

Empty plates

So we head for MTV dreams

That doesn’t work so we have to sell to the fiends

Living life in fear because of skin colour

A black kid killed by the police, yes another

And it shouldn’t be like I would’ve should’ve could’ve

Helped

For a long time, you have been hearing us yell

For a long time, you have been making money off us going to jail

But this time we will prevail

Because without fail

Black people have been picked on, looked down on, frowned on

Having to work 9 to 5 and then 6 till 1

I never thought I would have to rap about racism

It can take many forms like a prism

It can also have many sides like a prism

But can also be endless like a prism

The only thing which needs to happen is it needs to be gone

Not reduced in size as if it was to be turned into a polygon

But gone like the protection that police give

Gone like all the young black men and women who have died because they risked it

Risked it for their family and friends

Because the corrupt government couldn’t make ends meet, so that means grinding on the weekend

And soon it means jail, soon after that the meets end

Going to jail because of rights aren't enforced, laws are

Going to jail because can’t afford a lawyer

Can’t afford a lawyer because of an unfair life, from birth because police cause paranoia

And the cycles continues

But racism should not, will not, could not

Because we are not standing for another innocent black man to get shot

Selling pot, Selling crack smack and coke, making the block hot

Therefore killings sisters brothers and cousins, neighbour's dog and what, not

This is not a suitable way for a man to be living

Not a suitable way to make a living

Just because of the amount of melanin

That is within

Whilst our stomachs get thin

You have a sleep in

Whilst we have to watch where were are sleeping

In case we get caught are slipping

Not kidding

That’s poverty for the men, women and children

Poverty for the ethnic minority

There comes a time when silence is a betrayal

So if you’re not doing more than your bit you need to get hit and the head like a nail

By the hammer of common sense

If you don’t then you are disrespecting black presence

In simple terms, if you’re not with us your one of them

Racism isn’t a disease isn’t spread through phlegm

It’s a choice that you make

A road that you take

A road that leads to suffering

If it isnt lynching its strangling

If it isn’t strangling it is framing

If it isn’t framing its enslaving

And its wrong

But you know that and ignore that like all of a sudden one day we are all going to give up and be gone

Ghana, Nigeria, Mexico, Costa Rica it shouldn’t matter where you are from

But somehow it does

And to us

We can’t understand

Okay leave the past in the past

2020 black men and women still getting harassed

But its time for the rise up of the masses

Raise your glasses, no raise your fists

Because this

Is monumental

Sad but now hope like this instrumental

Poverty for the ethnic minority

[Verse 3]

I’m not saying all lives don’t matter I’m saying black lives matter more at this point in time

Thanks to you not speaking aloud about issues, I do in rhyme

Arrested for no crime

Doing time

This isn’t black versus white

Its everyone versus racists and so in these verses I write

About how enslavement affects us to this day

How it’s an unescapable place

Rich dad, poor dad this is the rat race

Education is the most valuable thing

So when its took because of where you living

Took because your ancestors were imprisoned

It all goes downhill

But that’s not just how I feel

It’s how it is, keeping it real

Poverty for the ethnic minority

[Verse 4]

The higher white powers keep us in the hood

Give us guns, let us rap because that’s the only way the trap would ever sound good

But we rap about it to leave it

But now we should wrap it up and leave it

Don’t ban drill

But when you spit to kill other kids get inspired and shoot to kill

Rapping is the way out but at the same time in draws the youth in

Ask 2 Chainz its either rapping or going to the league

Not because we are incompetent but because the homelands were sieged

We got took and now we are free?

Free to be in poverty

Or be in a cell doing slavery

Viewed as an asset by the government to make money

Ask Meek Mill because what’s free?

Free is when the media ain’t controlling what we see

Hated on because our genetics are from overseas

Therefore killed by officers

Who are meant to be overseers

Of our safety

Something that the police left off

We are hated because you brought is here unethically is right on

And now because of ethnicity, you want us gone

There is clearly something wrong

Poverty for the ethnic minority

Killed over a £20 note

Lyrics I write, I wrote

I will or I won’t

No, I will say it someone has to

Its the revolution and there isn’t going to be a part 2