[06:34.00]Artist：cassidy
[06:34.00]Songs Title：the message
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[06:34.00]It's a real bad time for black celebrities, they lockin everybody up
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[06:34.00]Michael Jackson, James Brown, Tupac, R. Kelly, OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson
[06:34.00]Kobe Bryant, Jay-Z, Mystikal, P. Diddy, Allen Iverson, Snoop Dogg, DMX
[06:34.00]Styles P, Shine, Beanie Segal, Lil' Kim.
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[06:34.00]Is it because I'm Black
[06:34.00]Is it because I'm Black
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[06:34.00]When you black you got to hustle, got to struggle and strive.
[06:34.00]And not every cat that goes through that struggle survive.
[06:34.00]But he got to stay stronger and keep the struggle alive.
[06:34.00]They say the struggle died, I say the struggle revived.
[06:34.00]My profession is going through oppression.
[06:34.00]That's why I'm so stressed and I'm working with no rest
[06:34.00]and no question ima fight for yall cause I don't like it yall
[06:34.00]we make half as much as them, we workin twice as hard yall.
[06:34.00]It ain't fair sometimes you seein heaven signs, I ain't Pharaohcon
[06:34.00]But I got knowledge and I'm sharing mines. I swear its time to
[06:34.00]be aware that they fear you mind, and they fear your heart. You
[06:34.00]want to change heres the start. I'm tired of watching cops outline
[06:34.00]my peers and yall, I'm trying to make a move, I'm not trying to make
[06:34.00]the news. They say the consequences worst when we break the
[06:34.00]rules. To get back and right you got to make a sacrifice.
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[06:34.00]Is it because I'm Black
[06:34.00]Is it because I'm Black
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[06:34.00]We got some problems we need solve, heres our chance to get them handle.
[06:34.00]Just take the boycott in Alabama for example. They stop ridin the bus till they
[06:34.00]address their affairs. And they ended segregation in less then a year. So imagine
[06:34.00]what our status if we made a contribution, we'll probably be able to change the
[06:34.00]constitution. I can't see no other kind of solution we deserve our reparation, its
[06:34.00]time for a revolutions. I'm a step ahead of Satan, I read it in Revelation. Forget
[06:34.00]your reputation, lets make it a better nation, cause they trying to cage us in
[06:34.00]make us slaves again, eventually its meant to be the new plantation, the penitentiary.
[06:34.00]For centuries they had a plan we let them executed, everyday another brother getting
[06:34.00]executed. And all our artist getting arrested I aspect improvement. It's a message
[06:34.00]in the music, I suggest you use it.
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[06:34.00]Somebody tell me what can I do.
[06:34.00]Will I survive or will I die
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[06:34.00]On the streets its hard to survive.
[06:34.00]Why, is it because I'm black
[06:34.00]Hot Shot got rock, I can't bring my cousin back.
[06:34.00]Five-hundred thousand sold, gold, yeah it wasn't platinum
[06:34.00]but Clyde gave me another try, cause I wasn't whack.
[06:34.00]And now i'm buzzin back, yeah I got my budget back.
[06:34.00]Renegotiating got a mil to do a dozen tracks.
[06:34.00]Yea I'm eatin only reason is because I rap, my homies eatin only reason is because of crack.
[06:34.00]They can't get a job so them niggas quick to rob, quick to steal
[06:34.00]quick to kill, grip the steal, quick to ride.
[06:34.00]Malcolm X, Martin Luther King we can't forget them guys.
[06:34.00]These politician, hypocrites they got us hypnotize.
[06:34.00]That why I kiss rick, why, we got to lift our eyes.
[06:34.00]Cause if we keep'em close they just goin keep control.
[06:34.00]And hold our sisters and brothers in the pen and we was born guilty
[06:34.00]cause the color of our skin.