Sho Baraka - Jim Crow lyrics
rate me[Hook]
I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place
Asking the lord for amazing graces
I see the masses wanna change me
I’m waiting for someone to save me
Until then, until then
Well I be stuck here on nigga island
Yeah, where niggaz be wildin'
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Well I be stuck here on nigga island
Yeah, when niggaz be wildin'
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
I am the invisible man, though I have a soul
I am from an invisible land
They gave me a slave pin for my freedom of speech
Yeah I’m tryina leave the island, but swimming through bleach
Come on son, why you always ruin the mood
Race talks happens everytime you enter the room
Cause there’s ignorance in the masses
Too many people think racism is past tense
We fight for blackness but we don’t know what black is
I know it ain’t the zero sum of white men
There wanna know how to reach the hood like there’s magic
Like we’re all the same, huh, like we’re not dynamic
Hollywood wants to pimp us to get dough
Exploit us but give us money, somebody say "ho"
Yeah, let’s take those movies and them movie shows
Be a token or a player, im from time row
Or be a magic negro, until the day I’m gone
Help the white man reach his goal but never reach my own
Or a oversex male, even a cool
A young male who loves ignorance, prays in the doom
Until then
[Hook]
I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place
Asking the lord for amazing graces
I see the masses wanna change me
I’m waiting for someone to save me
Until then, until then
Well I be stuck here on nigger island
Yeah, when niggers be wailing
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Well I be stuck here on nigger island
Yeah, when nigger be wailing
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Say hello to the great cultural brainwash
Washing my brain through some of the thangs the race talk
Message, you can’t colonize, divide, teach beauty straight hand
And the bluest devize, and because of lies
I’m debating 5 %
How a mid east movement is gonna be a white man’s religion
How the privileged man says it’s time to move forward
And say the game’s fair when he monopolyze the board
And corporate greed just manipulates the poor
Outside the hood I don’t see liquor stores
I know god’s sorry and I should pray about it
But a man won’t stop it, if it increases its profits
And most, they realistic with the flow, they make music for the streets
But I don’t see em at the show
So, instead the truth, they rather be duped
I guess they want me to do more songs for youth groups,
Until then
[Hook]
I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place
Asking the lord for amazing graces
I see the masses wanna change me
I’m waiting for someone to save me
Until then, until then
Well I be stuck here on nigga island
Yeah, where niggers be wildin'
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Well I be stuck here on nigga island
Yeah, where niggaz be wildin'
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Yeah I got a double consciousness but I’m still untouched
Cops got my hands in the air so I ain’t feeling much
Looking for protection, all I can see it’s tyrants
I’m fighting them cools and thugs, racists and dying imonds
That lady you call hoe, that’s my lover
That woman you call bitch, that’s my mother
Them boys that you kill, them my brothers
Send the ship to the island, we can rescue some others
Did they fight for civil rights so we can sit on gold
I can’t walk in your shoes, you keep selling your soul
No, ain’t much ... when you look at me
But a whole lot of the boys making noise, but until then
[Hook]
I feel I’m trapped in a crazy place
Asking the lord for amazing graces
I see the masses wanna change me
I’m waiting for someone to save me
Until then, until then
Well I be stuck here on nigger island
Yeah, where niggers be wailing
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Well I be stuck here on nigger island
Yeah, where niggers be wailing
Yeah, and color is violence
Yeah, moment of silence
Here we are, put on a show
Dance the jig, go jim crow
Here we are, put on a show
Dance the jig, go monkey go
Here we are, put on a show
Dance the jig, go jim crow
Go jim crow, say go jim crow
Go jim crow, say go monkey go
It’s what you want me to do, right?
It’s what you want me to do, right?
It’s what you want me to do, right?
Are you entertained?
It’s what you want me to do.
Thanks to Elijah for correcting these lyrics
Thanks to A DeCou for correcting these lyrics
