Black America - Kolo

I’m in February right now

That means it’s blackout season

Yeah

I might swipe on the black card, cop me a black Benz

Pack it with Lupitas just for me and my black friends

We pull em cause they hear that we be spitting like Mac-10s

To be this good with words should be illegal like absinthe

I always break the laws, except the ones of power

I’ve befriended many foes to help defeat some of you cowards

I never shine too hard especially around a boss

Cause kings are insecure when they find out you ain’t a pawn

Its tough to hide my light, my glow is just too enormous

You sold your soul for money n**** we are not concordant

I need honor and loyalty in high portions

N***** on my team that got my six like Michael Jordan

What’s important, is speaking for the unspoken

So I dropped Politics as Usual, n***** wasn’t open to it

So I’m back to spitting that no one can do it better

That he can cause a sound wave to bring down Armageddon

The vendetta is deeper than rap, to keep a stack

Y’all too busy keeping the gat, you need to relax

Y’all deals, is deep in the past, let’s keep with the facts

360 contracts, is robbing your stash

Man of course we still slaves

But they want that he could leave the studio in flames

So I gas on em

I’m the n**** leading the new wave, I put cash on it

They can never got enough of me like a crack junkie, yeah

I can never be a robot they control n****

The rules don’t help us to be reaping what we sow n****

What we started, we the fathers

They pay no homage, take what’s ours yeah

I can never be a robot they control n****

No matter what don’t let these label take your soul n****

I’m on go, I won’t fold

I’m no slave, let them know n**** yeah

I might swipe on the black card, cop me some black Timbs

Black out the Range Rover, the Windows with black tint

I don’t want y’all to see me, I don’t want to hear from no n****

Who throwing shade but in secret just wants to be me

I brainstorm the impossible, the lyrical immaculate conception

Anything that comes to mind, I manifest it

I stack a check when I speak my mind like Joe Rogan

And for that, they gon' hate on a n****, Hulk Hogan

But they cannot control me, I write my own chapters

No you not massa, yes I own my masters

Yes I read the contract, you ain’t putting nothing passed us

I got a few degrees and I ain’t never missed no classes

Who’s iller than me

That gap was answer, the versatility mastered

My independence established, I did it all without the backing

I lost a couple stacks but I’ll make it back on the back end

Don’t do this for your reaction the passion is all I know

Telling the stories that the TV news never shows

I learned that there’s power in playing games, don’t ever show all your cards

Always maintain your bluff, they never know who you are

That’s when you drop that shit

That why the hell it took so long to help the kids in Flint

That why ain’t twelve wearing body cams in every zip

I can spit that real now that I have your attention, yeah

I can never be a robot they control n****

The rules don’t help us to be reaping what we sow n****

What we started, we the fathers

They pay no homage, take what’s ours yeah

I can never be a robot they control n****

No matter what don’t let these label take your soul n****

I’m on go, I won’t fold

I’m no slave, let them know n**** yeah

My first album came out in '96, and I had to put the album out myself

Nobody would sign me.

They thought I was terrible

Every single record, I went to every single record label they were like this

guy is terrible, he’s nothing

That just goes to show you how far the A&R was off

These guys, they used to go to Bentleys and had electric blue shirts on

And ahh you know about hip hop, what you know about, what are you talking ‘bout?

It wasn’t representative, representative of hip hop

You were persistent and focused too

Yeah, and that goes for not listening to other people again

Cause I could have easily been like wow maybe I’m writing, maybe what I’m

talking about ain’t right

You know what I’m saying, they said everyone, no one wants to sign me

Maybe, maybe what I’m saying ain’t right, I could have easily took that,

that was easy

That would, that would have stopped the suffering, But I didn’t, you know

And I knew that them people ain’t know what they was talking ‘bout

Rap is poetry.

It is, it isn’t just you know, it’s thought-provoking there’s

thought behind it

There’s great writing in rap as well

Let’s start the grammy awards

Make sure the camera’s on point

Make sure Hov at the front

Make sure Bey at the front

AOTY gets awarded

Black man snubbed for the podium

16 years and going

Still our culture’s stolen

Make sure Hov at the front

Make sure Bey at the front

Merica sees what it wants

Blind to the strife of voiceless

Still gon' rock our chains

Still gon' use black slang

Use our genre for profit

Then throw dirt on its name

Make sure Hov at the front

Make sure Bey at the front

Use our legends for ratings

All your ways archaic

Still gone steal our drums

Mockingbird like how you mimic our hums

Recolor our fruit, pass off as your plums

Make sure Hov at the front

Make sure Bey at the front

Merica sees what it wants

Merica sees what it wants

Merica sees what it wants

You know you never hear rappers being compared for like the greatest writers of

all time

You know you hear Bob Dylan, so is Biggie Smalls, Rakim, I mean listen to some

of the things he wrote

I mean, you take those lyrics and you pull ‘em away from the music and you put

‘em up on the wall somewhere and someone had to look at ‘em, they would say

this is genius