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[Verse 2]

I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be

As if our people's history started with slavery

Painfully I discovered the shit they kept a secret

This is the exodus, like the black Jews out of Egypt

I keep it reality based with the music I make

Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with

Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800

I'm like the Africans who came here before Columbus

And from the 1500s until after the morrow

I watched Latin America get raped in the sorrow

You see, the Spaniards never left después de Colon

And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision

I never seen so much racism in all of my life

Every program and newscast, all of 'em white

It's like apartheid with 10 percent rulin' the rest

That type of stress'll make me put the fuckin' tool to your chest

Step in my way, nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya

I burn slow like pissin' drunk with gonorrhea

I'll do a free show in North Korea, burnin' the flag

While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag

Tryna confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this:

Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous

You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill

Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill

But that'll never be me 'cause I'm leavin' the past

Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass

Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash

Unbreakable Technique, leavin' the plane crash

I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return

I spit reality instead of what you usually learn

And I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice

'Cause I'm the only motherfucker that could change my life

[Trumpet Solo]

[Outro]

Some people think I won't make it, but I know that I will

Escape the emptiness 'cause that shit is slow and it kills

The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe it at last

You can make the future, but it starts with leavin' the past