Common Ground (feat. Chiara Clifford & RMZ)

I can't feel it Can't believe it My mind's going numb from disbelief as I’m reading My heart's reeling, I can't breathe as I reach for my phone so I can Holla at my boys, I’m making noise for my heathens And you're screaming all lives matter, but what's the meaning? Are you worried about your family and how police treat ‘em? Are you worried about your son not coming home in the evening? Nah, you don't know pain until you've watched your brothers get beaten By the people who we only need for one simple reason Policeman are meant to protect but look at how they treat them They're grabbing and ramming them in jail like they're cattle to their feeding You'll slap them in shackles without any fucking reasoning I've been begging and pleading, been screaming can you just please Leave our aunties and uncles and brothers and sisters in peace But police don't give a f*ck about our cries and our pleas Only time they're taking a knee is if it means you can't breathe Now tell em We won’t back down We won’t back down You cannot stop us now Our voice is too loud The peace you claim is fake You are the snake To blame for all your crime But we see through your lies We won’t back down We won’t back down Yeah we’ll find common ground Yo Law enforcement is fucked, the whole system is corrupted It's not weeding out the bad ones, or cutting police budgets It's not taking away handguns, and then thinking that we've done it It's disrupt the current government, destroy what they've sculpted I ain't talking ‘bout adjustments or even underfunding it I'm talking blow the shit to dust, put people at the front of it Now it's white men at the top, and BAME are all the way under it ‘Cuz rich and white and racist governments are who constructed it I know you never thunk of it, there are racists in this Kingdom We invaded the whole planet that's why we're named Great Britain You keep shouting that enslavement got abolished but it didn't Nah slavery still happens, it's just called the prison system Now I’m singing We won’t back down We won’t back down You cannot stop us now Our voice is too loud The peace you claim is fake You are the snake To blame for all your crime But we see through your lies We won’t back down We won’t back down Yeah we’ll find common ground If a white man started shouting, screaming f*ck the police It'd be 'leave them be, we got more troubles in these streets' But if a black man did the same shit, f*ck you best believe It'd be 'hands up, get down, on your fucking knees!' Nah hold up we ain't done yet, let's start talking appropriation Taking shit races are hated for and claim it as your creation Thought you could take centuries of racism and erase it But you ain't thought for one second about paying your reparations I’m from the class of 2020 where it’s crisis on the daily Got my own pedestal but my throne is stolen from me Boogied with the devil but I out-moved him on the dance floor Started every battle, now they want more Six string slinger but my weapon is my people Never feeble, stand strong, never break against the evil Yeah Ay I’m from the Asian America Covered by the media so they wash their hands and bury us Trying to save our corrupted piece Gave it my all but it costed me We won’t back down We won’t back down You cannot stop us now Our voice is too loud The peace you claim is fake You are the snake To blame for all your crime But we see through your lies We won’t back down We won’t back down Yeah we’ll find common ground And while you sit there, bopping your head to this Catching every single word, listening ’til the end of it Or even if you only hear one line, let it please be this I hope that this year's the one you can finally admit your privilege