(Intro)

They're tearing down the street

Where I grew up

Like pouring brandy

In a dixie cup

(Hook)

Ima say it loud, I’m black and I'm proud

I pump my fist when I'm pissed to show you what I’m bout

To all my woke folks tryna wake the streets

Can't save everyone, some gotta die in their sleep

Oh why oh why oh why did I take the pill

I was living one big illusion til I learned what's real

(VERSE 1)

Every king deserves a real queen on his team yay

But these niggas and bitches don't understand what it mean yay

Programmed to become a drug dealer or a fiend yay

If you're being raised in a nightmare daily, tell me how the fuck you posed to dream yay

Kidnapped from our continent, and separated from our tribe yay

And today black families known to divide yay

Living in a system where they pit a black queen against the black guy yay

And then they find the closest motherfucking jiggaboo to put on the panel to justify why we die yay

Used to wear chains while we got whipped on the ships when we were slaves yay

Now we die over chains and whips cuz mentally we're still enslaved yay

Marcus Garvey probably turning over in his grave yay

One nation under God, liberty and justice for the Triple K yay

(Hook)

Ima say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud

I pump my fist when I’m pissed to show you what I’m bout

To all my woke folks tryna wake the streets

Can't save everyone, some gotta die in their sleep

Oh why oh why oh why did I take the pill

I was living one big illusion til I learned what’s real

(VERSE 2)

Dope dealing is a hustle that we use in a form to get by yay

Throw our money on hoes in the club just so we could look fly yay

Don't invest in owning grocery stores or yet beauty supplies yay

We empower our oppressor til we lesser so we still getting high yay

Many of us are lost souls that are tryna find our way yay

This for the kids in the dark cuz mama spent the light bill on ye yay

Pastor said fill the plate up for God but he the nigga getting paid yay

Telling me if a nigga live and die through Hell, I'll get to Heaven one day yay

The illusion of inclusion ain't nothing but a slap in the face yay

See we losing cuz they’re using a system to put us back in our place yay

Systemic racism is the reason dirty cops won't catch a case yay

So when a cop get popped, I don't wanna hear Amazing Grace yay

(Hook)

Ima say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud

I pump my fist when I'm pissed to show you what I'm bout

To all my woke folks tryna wake the streets

Can't save everyone, some gotta die in their sleep

Oh why oh why oh why did I take the pill

I was living one big illusion til I learned what's real

(Outro: Chopped and Screwed)

Pass the pill, the red pill

Pass the pill like we used to say it

Pass the pill like we used to say it

Pass the pill like we used to say it