
Letter to a Black Soldier Lyrics
- Genre:Hip Hop & Rap
- Year of Release:2023
Lyrics
Letter to a Black Soldier
Some of y'all be sleeping when you wide awake
Got your head to the sky trying to live your life with faith
When y'all determined your fate the day you signed your soul to the state
They must have caught you American dreaming
Back turned, pants down, America be scheming
Fucking you with a red, white, and blue dick and you swallowing the semen
I can't believe y'all still believing
Hand over your heart, saluting the flag, pledging allegiance
Not me, I'm pledging resistance to the flag of United Snakes of stolen land
And I'll strap up and go to war with the Ku Klux Klan before you ever see me step foot in Afghanistan
Talking about some bullshit, Operation Iraqi Freedom
Got our Black men in uniform over there and right here's where we need them
Need some soldiers for our culture so we can go to war with these vultures
The war is on our people, just look to our communities
Third world conditions in the land of opportunity
No equal access to healthcare, our families on welfare
Don't look to the government, motherfuckers do not care
Just a black pawn in a white man's chess game, political campaign
This shit is so insane, they power you maintain
I tell the military slave to break from his damn chains
Why you risking your life for their capital gains
Dang, it's like you putting yourself on a noose and letting yourself hang
Why you suicidal? Fight for our survival
Put down that Bible, pick up something more reliable
You wanna be a soldier? Then just join the movement
The war is on our people and all the numbers prove it
Institutionalized racism, yeah, it's deeply rooted
That's why I'll burn the American flag before I ever salute it
I plead to y'all, don't uphold the military industrial complex
Don't further American imperialism or their conquest
Like my boy Nando said, who we gonna bomb next
If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress is Congress
And you expect me to trust these motherfuckers running for office? Nonsense
You say you're fighting for my freedom, we don't even get due process
Stop this, you ain't fighting for my freedom, you fighting to uphold white supremacy
I tell you right now, you don't have to go overseas to fight the enemy
But y'all ain't hearing me, the way I'm talking got some of y'all fearing me
This a black man's view of America and I don't like the scenery
Too many of my brothers locked up in the penitentiary
Modern day slavery in the 21st century
So please analyze why it is that you in the military
Join the army for the people, revolutionary
So sit, think, and just try to reflect
Until next time, I'm signing out
Please, sincerely yours, use your intellect