Black Wall St. (Renaissance Restoration) (Album Version) ft. Gil Scott-Heron Lyrics

(Gil-Scott Heron)

We bicker a lot about the lies we being told

Solutions not being developed but already know

What they been doing not conducive to genetics codes

That we inherit from ancestors that knew how to grow

They own foods now these youngins clutching them rougers

Old heads should just be they tutors

Cuz they wisdom measure rulers

That had the inch of faith to help em move they feet

Across them yards miles on a road that none of them had ever seen before

They had one thing in mind that they would rather die than live a lie

You stay behind enemy lines your people will decline

So they all fought till they was caught and never let up off

The mission with intentions for us living if they failed they tried

We sit and talk about not being slaves

But very few of us is out here being brave

That got ideas to help us all generate

A wealthy family, cuz Black Wall St. went in a blaze

They teach us everything that's wrong about our history

Now millions of us suffer living in that misery

The media portray us like we bread the savagery

It's sad see to cuz all I see black folk get done brutally

They running in ya house cuz they get silent warrants

Few weeks later you're ignoring

They got off and left the blood pouring

In the streets where you supposedly live free

Keep saying to yourself that you would run away if this was slavery

Well

I ain't never picked no cotton

But shownuff done picked some boxes

Overseers watching people stop it

These supervisors pencil whip ya if production slipping, Think I'm kidding

Tell the truth, they turn around and say you tripping

We sit and talk about not being slaves

But very few of us is out here being brave

That got ideas to help us all generate

A wealthy family, cuz Black Wall St. went in a blaze

(Gil-Scott Heron)