How It Feels to Be Black - Jag, Reason

When your people see me, man, they think that I ball

Probably because I’m black with tattoos and I’m tall

They think that I’m simple-minded, nigga stay at the mall

They thinkin' that we don’t work and we just work for that call

You know, that hook-up

It’s like they set us back, man, every time that I look up

They want us all dumb, they afraid if we pick a book up

Even more afraid if we get up out of that car

That they told us get up out of, if we listen, it’s like they shook up

New cat just tryna hustle to get my crew stacked

Apply for all these jobs and they wonder why niggas move crack

Move back, white people sayin' that he like tooth back

Paid, guess they ain’t see us comin', niggas is too black

They say niggas fire but they want us up in flames

Told us go for gold but they don’t want us up in chains

They say we look good when we ballin', and I’m flattered

They say black lives matter, how it matter, nothin' change?

Man, this lifestyle is wack, yeah, uh

This how it feel to be black, uh

I swear this lifestyle is wack, yeah

This how it feel to be black

So, been sittin' first class, stewardess tell me I don’t belong there

Like I made it to the top but I took the wrong stairs

Now I’m getting long stares every time I walk into that Whole Foods

But I’m used to it, this shit old news

These people wishin' we could go back to them old rules

You know that MAGA mentality, Make America Great Again

It’s never been great for I

Every cop case, they lie

We just tryna stay alive

I been stayin' on my shit

Segregate from each other but never own shit

We fight to keep every bit of that pride, then lose ours

Make all that money livin' in hoods then move out it

They done killed all of our kids, but who’s countin'?

Shit, I been countin' down the days when I can make these people have to pay

for it

Not with violence, but take mine and make a way for it

Spend them dollars for my people, build estates for 'em

Take this pen and state every single place

We done failed, took some L’s, my homie tried to prevail

Got out the whip with a wallet, bullets shoot through his back

That’s exactly how it feel to be black, REASON

They say niggas fire but they want us up in flames

Told us go for gold but they don’t want us up in chains

They say we look good when we ballin', and I’m flattered

They say black lives matter, how it matter, nothin' change?

Man, this lifestyle is wack, yeah, uh

This how it feel to be black, uh

I swear this lifestyle is wack, yeah

This how it feel to be black

I was proud to be black, oh yeah, proud to be black

But now it seems we gettin' killed for it, yeah

I thought freedom was free

But still I feel like the man been tryna cut us up a deal for it, facts

Yeah, Chubby the real know it, the real poet, I’ma say my piece

Fuck the cops, I been thinkin' 'bout how I’ma pay my lease

And it’s crazy when we run into the boys, I don’t get it

'Cause the looks is all sour but my mama say I’m sweet, for real

Shit is not right, swear this not life

I can’t buy what they sellin', I gotta shop right

I often think about passin' through on the stop lights

Heart beatin' fast as soon as I see the cop lights

A businessman, I’ll kill to be that

I’m that cold, a black hole, that’s how it feel to be black, yeah

Uh, that’s how it feel to be black

I’m that cold, a black hole, that’s how it feel to be black, yeah