I Hate Myself - Lil B

Don’t want the world to see me

Don’t think that they’d understand

Everything’s meant to be broken

Want you to know who I am

My lifetime came from struggle

All I’ve seen is what I follow

My skin color, automatic transaction

I’m already classified, no second chance

Taught to feel nappy hair, little grade

Why can’t I sag when it’s just a style

Little beard, black hoodie, and I’m all good

People judge before they even know me

Stare at me, don’t know I’m lonely

Outside’s from these stares from police

And I get the bad rep because another man

That just looks like me

Think life’s a movie like Spike Lee, too cool like Ice T

Yeah, I move with Life’s Peace

And he move with the gun piece

So there’s no peace

I gotta go to the hood, all I see is

Divided, the freshest schizophrenics

Men pimping women, people losing vision

Given choices before she started living

I hate myself

I see myself in the mirror, but I don’t see nothing

If you understand what I’m seeing please tell me something

When you black, the media make you wonder why

I just need my history, because I hate myself

It makes me sad to see pimping

Like I’m at a battle with my surroundings

Everybody do it, but not really

And I couldn’t imagine my momma

Universal knowledge is karma

I see young girls hanging off the corner

And they searching for love in the wrong space

Gave her mind to a pimp, now he’s changing faces

Sometimes I just wish I could trade places

I hate myself for being taught the rules of the hood

Which don’t matter, no respect and no love

Ain’t got jail for the real thugs

And I’m sorry to all the innocent in prison

You get a second chance when you free or in heaven

I promise if you really love and you watch your steps

Respect everybody, man you will get blessed

Get your point across without violence

The black dying by the gun, I’m tired of crying

I hate myself

For real man, this been in my heart for a long time

And if you understand, please tell me something

When you black, the media make you wonder why

I’m ready to give up my old thoughts

I’mma move past what I saw

I’mma do what I want and be happy

I’m not gon' rob or kill to survive

Everything I’ve seen was a lie

I’m not ready to die, I love myself

I said, everything that I’ve seen was a lie

I’m not ready to die, I love myself

Break that mental

You know we are free now man

Break that, uh, mental blockage

Don’t think too hard, free your mind