
Black Wall St. (Renaissance Restoration) (Album Version) ft. Gil Scott-Heron Lyrics
- Genre:Hip Hop & Rap
- Year of Release:2023
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)