MR OTHA - BLACK & PROUD

YOU MAY WRITE ME DOWN IN HISTORY WITH YOUR BITTER TWISTED LIES YOU MAY TREAD ME IN THE VERY DIRT BUT STILL LIKE DUST I’LL RISE -MAYA ANGELOU

VERSE 1
OTHA…A NIGGA LIKE ME DESERVE A HOLIDAY
IT SHOULD BE CALLED REPARATIONS DAY
ILL BE THE PRESIDENT OF THA BOARD
ENSURE EVERY BLACK MAN WOMAN AND CHILD DIGNITY RESTORED ECONOMIC STATUS RECONCILED WE GONE GET BUCK WILD…TRILLIONS OWED TO US WE GONE PURCHASE THOSE 30 ACRES AND REBUILD BLACK WALL STREET IN EVERY MAJOR DISTRICT…BLACK SCHOOLS, BLACK BANKS, BLACK GROCERY STORES, BLACK REALTORS…IM TALKING BLACK UTOPIA…NO MORE HATERS…WE ALL HAVE PAPER WE ALL HAVE GUNS WE ALL HAVE FARMS WHITE FOLKS PLEASE DONT BE ALARMED WE ALL GONE HAVE NUCLEAR BOMBS …SO WHEN THE BULLSHIT START WE GOTTA ALL BLACK MILITARY TO PROTECT OUR LEGACY

VERSE 2
WE AINT GOING OUT LIKE HAMPTON, MLK, MALCOLM X, OR EMMITT TILLMAN…OUR WHOLE ARSENAL GONE BE BLAZIN FOR OUR EMANCIPATION…THIS AINT THE 15th CENTURY THEM WHIPS AND CHAINS GONE GET WRAPPED AROUND YA NECK MANE HEAR ME CLEARLY BLACKS WANT OUR FAIR SHARE G NO MORE PENNY PINCHING REDLINING AND RACIAL DIVISION…WE BEEN MISTREATED SUBJECTED TO THIS WHITE SUPREMACISTS ONE-SIDED COMPETITION…GOT ME WISHING I COULD TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY..U KNOW…PULL A CASTRO REORGANIZE POLITICAL STRUCTURE…ILL BE A BAD MUTHUFUCKA…BUT NOT IN A NEGATIVE WAY…IM TALKING EQUITY EQUALITY ALL OUT BLACK UNITY…WHAT WE SEEN IN MOVIES….SO IMMA DO THE RIGHT THING…WHAT UP SPIKE LEE…GIVING YOU A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN JUST LIKE BERNIE SANDERS…ATTENHUT…MAKE WAY FOR THE HIGHLY REVERED BLACK COMMANDER


CHORUS
WE TOOK L’S FOR CENTURIES
ENSLAVED AND THROWN IN PENITENTIARIES
LIFE FULL OF MISERY
PICKED COTTON ENRICHED WHITE LEGACY
THE MOST MISTREATED
IN HUMAN HISTORY
BUT U COULDN’T BREAK ME

Written by:
JAMAEL NASH, PATRICK BELL

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