Raz Simone - The Race lyrics

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Ah, man, when this Ferguson shit hit

It really frustrated me

It really fucked me up a bit

For a lotta reasons

One, one is that when the deaths happened

It really didn't bother me a lot

Becuz I've been so...

When I broke it down I was sittin' there like...

M'yeah, people get killed by the cops every day, ya know?

Niggas get killed by the cops every day

And so, when I broke that thought pattern down

Like why is it that important that we all gettin' killed all the time?

Like, my homie just got killed, like, what is that?

A week before Ferguson ever happened

So I'm like did that even hit the news?

Cuz he's just got killed by the police

He ain't even have a gun on him

And see, I'm like, that, it fucked me up in my head

That I was so desensitized, so numb to this shit

To this shit happening, that I didn't give a fuck

I genuinely gave a fuck, but I really didn't give that many fucks, honestly

And so, it was like that bothered me

And then, I started seein' some other things

I started seein' all these people talkin'

And people that I thought were, nahwimean, that, were my homies

People that were white, people that were black

People that were half white and half black

People that were all different types of colors

Who started to talk about their... their frustrations

But they started to, their kinda inside closet racism start to come out

After these events had happened, after these conversations had happened

And that pissed me off, becuz there's one of those things like

I know the race doesn't exist, becuz I'm a black man in America

I look black, yaknow, I'm mixed with all kinds of things

Just like every, from the last one of you niggas too

But the thing is like when the cops pulled me ova

Like 'ah, look, I'm a black man'

You're a black man, you're a white man, and that's how

That's how we're judged

But when I saw all these different friends of mine

And acquaintances post all these different things

All this hate, and and and a racism that they had

That was closeted, I was like damn

Becuz everybody walks around, ya know, 'specially bein'

From out here, like in Seattle, everybody feels like

Oh, we're so, we're so advanced

Ya know, uh, we're so cultured, we're so diversed

Ya know, we luv everybody, and it's like, we have understanding fo' everybody

And that's really not at all

And that's like why I say I'd rather go like damn

When I'm out in New Orleans, or in Alabama, and ______(?)

Where you got known races who are like 'I don't like niggas'

'I don't like Indians', 'I don't like myself, cuz I got a lil Indian in myself'

Ya know, and it's like at least they're opened about it

But back here it's.. they're quiet

And I feel like just the whole world's gettin' a lil quiet about it

And then when this happened everybody speakin' out

About the things that really frustrated them

How they really feel, how they really feel that this race

Is inferior, that this race of people are fuckin' up

Or this race of people are gonna tear apart their whole city

This race of people, we shouldn't go and support them cuz this

CUz they did this this this and that all that

And it's just like damn!

So my biggest thing is so much stupidity

Becuz how I was raised and how my my nature is

I have no racist bone in my body

Becuz that, you have to be stupid to be a racist

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