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 

 

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