How It Feels to Be Black (feat. 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 thinking 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 saying that he like tooth back Paid, guess they ain't see us coming, 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, nothing 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 Wvery time I walk into that Whole Foods But I'm used to it, this shit old news These people wishing 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 staying 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 living in hoods then move out it They done killed all of our kids, but who's counting? Shit, I been counting 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, nothing 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 getting 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 thinking about 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 selling, I gotta shop right I often think about passing through on the stop lights Heart beating 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