iam.Daniel J - Cruel Reality

I know the feeling being labeled as different
Just from the color of my skin I been faced with the prison
They all don't like us, they'll say that it's the way that we act
But if we all being honest it's the fact that we black
Tell me why you taking all my brothers and you playin hangman
Yeah, they both black but they ain't the same man
If we hung you from a tree you still wouldn't feel how we feel
We bleed the same blood, tell me why you let it spill
You got some people protesting, just because it's trending
Then you got the one's trying to start some new beginnings
Nothing gone change no matter how much you cry
Sad but it's true, and this the reason why
Because the system full of hate, don't wanna see us alive
They rather see us in the street they want us dead not alive
I know some people fighting for us got sent to the other side
So I'm praying for ya family and all the tears that they cried
For my people I forever speak out
If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt
For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out
I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down
I'm black so if I speak are you gone take me away
I gotta daughter, I'm trying to raise her in the safest of ways
Her daddy seen homicides
Her mama seen murder
She can't be in the cycle so I gotta break the circle
I'm not a rapper, I'm an artist, now I'm speakin as an activist
I'm trying to paint this picture while you sit back like a pacifist
They make us feel like violence is the only way out
Now listen very closely to the words from my mouth
You kill one now what's next
Apple not to far from the apple tree
You treat us like a dog tag you just gotta retrieve
It's real life Call of Duty
Watchin out for oops
Oops being cops and they setting up shop
All my youngins listen up, I'm finna teach you a lesson
When we hold our fist up I think they see Smith & Wesson
Ya skin tone is a weapon
We holdin this much aggression
How you expect us to act with 400 years of oppression
It's a lot of people lost and they seekin direction
But I'm here to be a compass, hopefully ima blessin
My mama told me I'm destined
My granny knows that I'm destined
So until I see a difference it ain't no need for me restin
I'm Daniel J
For my people I forever speak out
If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt
For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out
I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down
For my people I forever speak out
If you my people ima stand for you without a doubt
For all my brothers and my sisters ima hand reaching out
I'm here to pick you up if they ever knocking you down
I can't breath
You can't breath
We can't breath
Let us go
You pose to protect, but trying to kill us on the low
Trying to take us from our families, we got children to raise
We ain't see the best but they gone see better days
And I know it ain't all of em, some cops they doing what's right
But the ones doing wrong they dark gone come to the light
We all out here taking chances, no surrender no retreat
It's been a hot summer don't make us turn up the heat
Cuz the cycle gone go on and on and on
And on and on and on and it won't stop
Take another life and look at the camera like they retarded
How you play victim to a game that you started
Because the system full of hate, don't wanna see us alive
They rather see us in the street they want us dead not alive
I know some people fighting for us got sent to the other side
So I'm praying for ya family and all the tears that they cried
All my people stand up

Written by:
Daniel Jenkins

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