Rolling

By Raina Simone

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I keep my properties in the family like black nannies and rich white folk

I just call it how i see it no (eye) i phone

I do this shit for sport baby

I be wherever the game meets (gametes) just like a zygote

With 2 23's like more than one Michael

The homie street bust down the rolly and he lost his whole investment

I be tryna give us lessons but we hard headed

And I ain’t judging I should go buy that brand new Honda Civic

But I've been eyeing that 2002 Mercedеs with all the mileage

Damn what wе gon' do about it

You can’t tux up white suit about it

Cut locs, change speech to be secure about it

If they gon' call you a nigga

Then they gon still call you a nigga

And if they don't use the word niggers then they gon' still use niggas

Slave ship dialect held onto from the village

That raised the children, that turned it to ebonics to make a killing

Bell curve rhetoric they mad because they can't feel it

Well watch me use my grandmamas tongue to make a million

I close my eyes and I take flight

Hard to map out this road at life

But I say fuck it I'm still rollin' I'm rollin’

Tried to tell em they can’t hold me hold me

I'm rollin’ I'm rollin'

I'm rollin’ I'm rollin' I'm rollin'

Black messiah public enemy

Put an end to me

And I'll come haunt you til' you send for me

And when you can't send for me

I hope you realize you ain't God

I hope you realize exactly just who you are

White savior complex

White Jesus undergone

Having to face the truth of being blinded by the psalm

Transitions to a world far beyond

Should've learned your lessons in confessions

Now you stressin'

Lost control by complexion cause my voodoo ceased your resurrection

Before y'all legalize weed

I want y'all to legalize me

I want all my niggas set free cause white supremacy making g's

Off of the same shit that got my niggas on lock or on parole

I done cracked the g code man its all about that guap that green that cee lo money go where we go

And the babies don't know subtraction cause it's us they subtracting

Probably cause education a product of the property taxes

Probably because they redlined gentrified us America backwards

But when it comes to that money shit we know how to add it and that's real

I close my eyes and i take flight

Hard to map out this road at life

But I say fuck it I'm still rollin' I'm rollin'

Tried to tell em they can't hold me hold me

I'm rollin' I'm rollin'

I'm rollin' I'm rollin' I'm rollin'