No Respect

Claiming you serve and protect all
But the colored flesh you neglect
Stay throwing us in them cell walls
Where we constantly calling collect
Or they grab us from cars and beat us so hard
Leave us struggling for breath
Now we on go just like Malcolm X
And we ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
Used to get killed on a plantation
Now we get killed for a citation
It's a whole different life for them people with
hite written on they identification
How is this the land of the free
When the mass of my people incarcerated
Just take a look at our family tree
Man this shit been going on for some generations

We some survivors thats just trynna make it
Anger built up we can no longer tame it
Its been 400 years and we still fighting racist
Stuck in this shit we can no longer take it
No longer quiet, we fighting and rioting
Now the whole world is spiraling outta control
Like where the hell do we go
And who do we turn to
When 12 treating us like dog food
If they minded they business we'd be cool
And they wonder why niggas keep attitudes
How you black thinking white you a real coon
All this shit weighing hard on my mental
So i put all my thoughts in a pencil
We not cared about its evidential
Can't even live up to our own potential
Even as a lil kid in the way we lived it was fuck the pigs and thas pidd
Back in the day they was never recording it
Now it's on tv and shit taking wind
Name after name, the list is inordinate
Knocking us off cuz of our colored skin
No logic behind it, they do it unwarranted
Thinking that we gone take it to the chin
This country pathetic
They shooting us crazy like some kinda fetish
Blackface using us for aesthetic
I see em and run i get super athletic
You bet it
Tamir Rice was 12 and got shot for pellet
Eric Garner couldn't breath he was
Sandra Bland, she was crying out helpless
Breaonna Taylor RIP to you precious

Have you ever been sleep waking up to gun sounds
And start praying that it ain't yo people
You ever been riding 4 deep then 12 surround
And white people say that we equal
Y.ou ever had somebody smile right in yo face
then back stab you for no reason
Back at home it aint no people pleasing
Just some young kids trynna find meaning
In this life
You could lose it all in one night
I ain even talking bout no tv channel but my god brother facing a life time
My big cousin was locked up for years and my people aint let me go see him not one time
Got me yelling free the bloodline
My.black folks need sunshine
So we fist up on the frontline
Always not sometimes
If we stick together we can all rise
Cuz we hell bent on the same prize
You can see the pain in our fatigued eyes
Tired of seeing our mamas crying
Kids worried bout they brother dying
We walk out the house oso terrified
Trynna avoid police homicide
White people just don't understand
All around the world them people verified
While we still stuggle to advance
Honestly, we been treated uncivilized
For years we been trapped in this circumstance
2020 living in a genocide
I am just another black man
In a cold world, being minimized

We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
We ain't showing no respect
Used to get killed on a plantation
Now we get killed for a citation
It's a whole different life for them people with
hite written on they identification
How is this the land of the free
When the mass of my people incarcerated
Just take a look at our family tree
Man this shit been going on for some generations