F*ck Your Ethnicity Lyrics

F*ck Your Ethnicity - Kendrick Lamar

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[Skit:]

Gather around

I'm glad everybody came out tonight

As we stand on our neighborhood corner

Know that this fire that's burning represents the passion you have

Listen, Keisha, Tammy, come up front

I recognize all of you

Every creed and color

With that being said... fuck your ethnicity

You understand that?

We gon' talk about a lot of shit that concerns you

All of you

[Intro:]

Now everybody, throw your hands up high

If you don't give a fuck, throw your hands up high

[Hook:]

Now I don't give a fuck if you

Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

That don't mean shit to me

Fuck your ethnicity, nigga

[Verse 1:]

Fire burning inside my eyes, this the music that saved my life

Y'all be calling it hip-hop, I be calling it hypnotize

Yeah, hypnotize, trapped my body but freed my mind

What the fuck is you fighting for? Ain't nobody gon' win that war

My details be retail, man, I got so much in store

Racism is still alive, yellow tape and colored lines

Fuck that, nigga look at that line, it's so diverse

They getting off work and they wanna see Kendrick

Everybody can't drive Benz's, and I been there, so I make it my business

To give 'em my full attention, ten-hut! Man, I gotta get my wind up

Man, I gotta get down with God cause I got my sins up

Matter of fact, don't mistake me for no fucking rapper

They sit backstage and hide behind the fucking cameras

I mosh pit, had a microphone and I tossed it

Had a brain, then I lost it, I'm out of my mind

So don't you mind how much the cost is, penny for my thoughts

Everybody, please hold up your wallets

Yeah man, I'm the mailman, can't you tell, man?

Going postal, never freeze up, when I approach you

That's starstruck and roast you, oh my

HiiiPower

(Reporting live from Planet Terminator X, I am Martin Luther King with an AK-47)

[Hook:]

Now I don't give a fuck if you

Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

That don't mean shit to me

Fuck your ethnicity, nigga

[Verse 2:]

I'm tired of y'all, cause everybody lied to y'all

And you believe it? Recognize them false achievements

It's treason and I'm Tylenol, I knock out when you knock it off

Knock on the doors of opportunity, I'm too involved

I'm no activist, I'm no Einstein before calculus

I was kicking that Math, dropping that science

Like an alchemist, and I be kicking that ass, lyrically I'm UFC

If a UFO had came for me, I'mma come back with the head of an alien

Don't alienate, my dreams, get it right

Get a life, I got 2, that's a metaphor for the big shit I do

Boy, TMI, TSA, man I'm fly, put wings on my back

That a plane or angel? Both like a pilot with a halo, whoa... Gross

[Bridge:]

I mean, I've seen so many things come through them, him, her, you

I'm just a messenger, yeah, I know life's a bitch, get the best of her

Put them 3's up, they notice that we up, HiiiPower

And the power in the people and if they don't believe us, they'll die

Wizard

[Hook:]

Now I don't give a fuck if you

Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, goddammit

That don't mean shit to me

Fuck your ethnicity, nigga