RIOTS Lyrics

It's the happening we here

Can't speak about a riot

You wanna talk when it ain't necessary

But don't talk when we need you

You can't speak about a riot

When y'all keep quiet

When it come to our people

Wanna pick sides

But wouldn't wanna switch lives

Cause you know it ain't equal

Speaking y'all minds

Always at the wrong time

But never make a sound when we need you

But we should be peaceful

How many times can you tell a motherfucker how to treat you

Before it get lethal

Cause then they understand

And then they gone come up with a plan

Yea they hearing what we saying

They just gotta see we ain't playing

Gotta stand on our demands

Stand on our demands

Make 'em use the power in they hand

Or make em lose the power in they hand

Ain't about black vs white

Now it's wrong vs right

So you better make it clear on where you stand

To the allies

Gotta stand on what you talk

Yea if you with us come and walk

If you with us come and walk

Shit you ain't even gotta walk

These days you can say it in your art

Cause everybody don't march

If you playing your part

That's how everything start

That's how that fire get sparked

When that fire get sparked

Can't run know you gotta have heart

And to my brothers

We already know about the block

We already know about them pots

Yea we know about the stove

Know you supposed to whip it til it rock

Big dawg what you know about them stocks

What you know about some crops

See we gotta learn a lot

Gotta get together and buy the block

I'm talking from the food, to the schools, to the hospitals

We need all that shit on lock

And this our shot

We gone get it together

Yea it's been a lil while

We been here in the wild

We ain't gone be here forever

Yea it's been a lil while

Gotta get it together

We gotta do better

Cause when you know better

Still gotta do better

That's the part they don't tell you

Know no better

They don't really know no better

They don't really know no better

Show them better

Nobody ever showed them better

Nobody exposed them to better

They don't know no better

They don't know we stronger together

They don't know we stronger together

They don't even know

And they don't know cause we don't tell em

Now it's time for us to tell 'em

Know no better

They don't really know no better

They don't really know no better

Show them better

Nobody ever showed them better

Nobody exposed them to better

They don't know no better

They don't know we stronger together

They don't know we stronger together

They don't even know

And they don't know cause we don't tell em

Now it's time for us to tell 'em

Know no better