MLK Day
It's all for the culture, that's what you see
And I'ma rep it 'til I can't no more
No matter where you going
You best believe, you gotta feel it in your soul, for sure
I wonder what cats was thinking April 3rd
1968, day before King's murder occurred
Probably optimistic, thinking 'bout driving down to Memphis
Now they name a street after him in Low Income districts
Not being negative, I'm realistic
Speaking logistics in the process of keeping my wrist lit
The Modern Urban Philosopher
Rappers either make believe kingpins or they gossipers
The devil traded Polo shirts for swastikas
Co-opted the cops, adopted the moniker of Evangelical Christians
Same Christians, 1960s, bombed churches and did the lynchings
Guess religion contradicting heaven
'Cause terrorism homegrown and these radicals got a reverend
What is Black Steel? It's that black mother with her back peeled
From whips cracking her flesh on a vast field
Picking cotton, yeah, that yield
Just so she could survive to protect her babies, it's that real
Black Steel, the murder weapon in the hood
Where blacks kill one another (you want some smoke?)
See every brother ain't a brother
Am I supposed to bleach my skin
Buy blue contacts like Sammy Sosa
Sisters strip in racist chat rooms, that cat is Doja
Told ya self-hate is that ill
But you can't change your genetics, family
You Black still
MLK Day, MLK Day
MLK Day, MLK Day
I don't know what you've been told
But we been down for the fight, my friend
Marching roads, stay on your toes
'Cause we gon' celebrate this day on in
It's all for the culture, that's what you see
And I'ma rep it til I can't no more
No matter where going, you best believe
You gotta feel it in your soul, for sure
I'm on my way, can you hold my place
I wanna do it for the king, ya dig (I wanna celebrate)
Ignore your hate, better fix your face
It don't change anything you did (I wanna celebrate)
Keep your take, if it ain't your taste
'Cause we gon' run it 'til the days away (I wanna celebrate)
It's what you make, better know your place
So we gon' check you on whatever you say (I wanna celebrate)
But until, just fake it, motherfucker
Every thirrd Monday of January, just fake it, motherfucker
Yeah
MLK Day, MLK Day
MLK Day, MLK Day
Good evening, the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King
Thirty-nine years old, and a Nobel Peace Prize Winner
And the leader of the non-violent civil rights movement
In the United States was assassinated in Memphis tonight
A sniper's bullet cut down Dr. King
As he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis