Apollo The Great - Fames lyrics

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(Intro: Malcolm X)

We don't see any American Dream

We've experienced only the American nightmare

We haven’t benefited from America’s democracy

We have only suffered from America’s hypocrisy

And the generation that’s comin' up now can see it

And are not afraid to say it

(Verse)

All I see is young black boys witout knowledge of self

Ole' black folk try to tell us college could help

While masters child inherits dollars & wealth

We on our knees wit a hand out (what else)

All I hear is the pastor, preachin' about the life after

As our real life flyin' right past us

Go to church hear a verse then it's right back to

Go to work, bills due, shit don't add up

Big cousin in the kitchen & he whippin' crack up

Told me if I help him flip it I could get a fast buck

Hate poisonin' my people, maybe I just bag up

It weights heavy on my conscience, cuz I'm conscious

But not far removed from the nonsense

The drugs, cars, the jewels, & the violence

Niggas was made in America

Taught that we were slaves & inferior

So why they scared of us?

(Hook)

They be tellin' me that things changed

But it all seems the same thru' these Malcolm X frames

They be tellin' me that things changed

But it all look the same thru' these Malcolm x frames

(Interlude: Malcolm X)

The police is the same way they put their club upside your head

Then, turn around & accuse you of attackin' them

Every case of police brutality against the Negro follows the same pattern

(Verse 2)

All I see is police usin' us as target practice

It was either me or him, so I offed the bastard

Teenage black thugs, yeah, ya know how that is

Media misleadin' the masses

Peace to Mike Brown’s fam, I share y'all's sadness

Eric Garner & all them, black lives matter

All I hear is a change gon’ come

But we been screamin' that for years & I ain't seen one

Y’all want to act ignorant, don't support black business

Exact reasons we in this, predicament

Still ain't learn to get our own shit, we don't own shit

Ya work for them, pay them rent, o' ya homeless

Why not start small & grow like errythin' else?

Invest in yoself & then let it bring wealth

Too busy beggin' them for a job

They don't give it to us then we rob

The problem still unsolved

(Hook)

(Outro: Malcolm X)

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that our own mind has to be changed

We have to change our minds about ourselves

(In what way?) Well, he teaches us the importance

Of moral reformation, a knowledge of self