alert & aware (Blackout) ft. Timestretch Lyrics

Ugh!

Everytime I turn on the news

Crime in the D (It’s a crime in the D)

Somebody done killed somebody

More crime in the streets

(More crime in the streets)

Hard to ignore them stories of

Th minorities killing minorities

Ignoring authority sound a whole

Lot like Jim Crow if you wanna

Ask me, wake up realize you

Keeping genocide alive, it don’t

Always pay to keep pride inside

Can’t have it lookin’ like we ain’t

Tryin’ to rise, you can’t multiply

From killin’ your own kind

(Killin’ your own kind)

Young boy set on the right path

Following his life’s arrow

(Following his life’s arrow)

Tryin’ to get out the ghetto

Without gettin’ pinched by the

Crabs in the barrel, know how

That go, you low key get hated

On when they see you put in

Effort to make it on, like you

Ain’t supposed to elevate, like

You ain’t supposed to make

Paper like makin’ it is wrong

Ain’t this somethin’, many years

A slave even ‘til this day, in a

Mental way some of us still one

Get a setback for every build up

I know songs like this, no time

For these, ‘cause you don’t wanna

Hear this kind of rhyme me, I’m

Just saying what’s real ain’t tryin

To preach, and be alert like it

Ain’t no time to sleep, songs

Like this, no time for these,

‘Cause you don’t wanna

Hear this kind of rhyme me, I’m

Just saying what’s real ain’t tryin

To preach, and be alert like it

Ain’t no time to sleep

Be alert and aware or just

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Look at how they poisoned the

Water the Governor all out of order (say word)

Got families buying them bottles in bulk

At a store or on the corner (say word)

A teenager hot in his back by a cop who Intended to slaughter (say word) all

Because he was young and Black, man

It’s a fact, some of these police’ll see us

And wanna go rrrrat! droppin’ us dead

And leave it at that, I should feel like

You are here to protect and to serve

Not feel like I should be strapped

All of this racism all over melanin

That shit is sad, what is you tellin’ me

Don’t try to tell us to let go the past

When you see the past in today is

Relevant, feelin’ like I dwell in hell

Tho’ I gotta find heaven on Earth

Somebody done got put up under

Dirt that’s another R.I.P put up on

A shirt, Another mother hurt that her

Child got murked, another funeral it

Mean another black hearse, families

Sending up prayers in the church

But they feel like the word that was

Preached didn’t work, they said

That the meek shall inherit this

Earth, but I don’t think it meant

Kill a nigga over turf, look at your

Life, something to live for and

Think is it something in the streets

Really worth, just gotta get it together

And do so much better it’s rough,

But just keep your head up and

Stack up your paper, and count

Up your lettuce, and count all your

Blessings and take in this message I’m sayin

Be alert and aware or just

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