Listen Up - K Rino

So you want me to tell you about the place called America, right?

It’s a very very evil place

So many atrocities have been committed by this nation

And the poor people suffer because of the evil evil dragon

Let me tell you

Ha ha ha, oh you don’t believe me?

It’s a population divided over multiple topics

We go through the process, hoping that voting can stop it

Systemic poverty, economics holding us hostage

The rich controlling and watching while they choke us for profits

Deflection is the tool they use to alter the movement

False conclusions like racism is just an illusion

The American flag — blacks don’t believe in that hype

‘cause we see stars every time we get beat with them stripes

You plottin' like hell every time we try to prevail

Now you scared ‘cause people waking up outta the spell

They tell the black man forget what was done to him

They say that just to hide the fact that what was done to blacks was done up

unto them

See we been picked to be the victims

So begging the system to treat us equal with them is a contradiction

Go and listen to John, who worked for Nixon

Said the war on drugs was meant to lock blacks up and restrict them

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?

«Let's Make America Great Again" —

A coded phrase by racist hateful men

Who blame the poor citizens for the state it’s in

But we on top of that, got ‘em covered like calamine

Holding up a power fist, yelling, «Free Palestine»

We focus on shining and chase showbiz

We know every rapper and actor but don’t know what Jim Crow is

And black people, why you praising the Clintons

When they responsible for jailing you and raising your sentence?

But you sellin' ya little dope ‘cause you live in the slums

But even in the drug industry, they give you the crumbs

The government decided it then they created this environment

Supplying it then punish you for selling it or buying it

And I admit that we don’t help our situation

When we contribute knowing it through voluntary participation

Some of us still chase integration

But that’s what caused the evisceration

You racist but say you a Christian nation

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?

You lost and you don’t see that what you backing is false

How many blacks been bumped off under the flag and the cross?

For years we been advised about the prison business enterprise

In Michigan they lied ‘bout the water, committed Flinticide

We fight the beast and the ratchet police

From slavery up to now we get attacked in the streets

You can’t compare the Holocaust to the blacks you mistreat

Because in no time, the Jews was right back on their feet

But see in our case, justice wasn’t properly handled

Opportunities blocked even when we go through the channels

Got some rotten politicians who pretended to help

40 million blacks owning one percent of the wealth

You made ‘em rich and as long as they above you, you trapped

You think they love you ‘cause you can dunk or ‘cause you can rap?

So we stay connected to those who deceived and betrayed us

I wish we loved us the way we love the people who hate us

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?

Listen up

I’ma tell ya what they won’t tell ya

Slap ya with the raw truth even if it scare ya

We gotta soldier up and go through the heat

How can you wake up when you don’t even know that ya sleep?