Detroit Black Kid
People treat life like it's some kind of game
until shit get's fucked up and nothing's the same.
They wanna shed tears
for all the wasted years
Crying for something the change
To stop working for minimum wage
To break their chains and escape their cage
But they keep doing the same shit
Living the same life they're unfit
Same shit different day
Same excuses is what they say
"Imma do it when I get the time"
"gotta get them stacks before rent's time"
Funny how the punishment always fits the crime
Coming from a city knee deep in the dirty
Coming from a block where niggas wanna hurt me
Over a pair of shoes
Trying to put me on the 7 O'clock news
Trying to snuff out my light
And make me live in blight
Make me put them dukes up and get ready to fight
hell naw that ain't my life
I'm not bout that life
I'm trying to choose a better path
Go to college and show them books my wrath
I'm trying to provide for my future family
So that my kids can look up at their father and see
What a real man looks like
Not what the struggle looks like
Not living paycheck to paycheck
not knowing when the rent's gonna be paid yet
Or wearing the same hand-me-downs
Or forcing a smile when all you really wanna do is frown
Cause you're broke as fuck feeling like a clown
Knowing you're a joke cause you can't provide care
Stressing cause you're on fucking welfare
FUCK the bridge card
Fuck the bridge card
My kids won't go through what I've been through
Because between me and you
Yea i'm a black kid from the hood
And yea I love my city as I should
But i'm not like these other cats
I'm not a D-Boy that everyone knows from way back
I'm smarter than that
I'm that kid that's influential
That kid with so much potential
So when you see me in the days to come
Remember this rhyme as a rule of thumb
That this black kid here he was never dumb
He meant what he said and said what he meant
And he's here to show the world What the Black race can represent