Off Your Knees

Boy get off your knees And stop begging for the white man to love you Boy get on your feet And stop begging for the white man to hug you Boy get off your knees And stop waiting for the white man to plug you Boy get on your feet And start tryna please the man that's above you It's been 200 years since they freed the slaves It's been 60 plus years since Dr. King was slain In that time a lot of things have changed We progressed as a people but now I fear we switching lanes The slave mentality is creeping back into our brains Supposed to be independence in our mind frames But other people's validation what our people chase It's time for me to crack the whip, toss me the reins I get tired of seeing people apologize Folks in they feelings always looking for a reason to cry It's Kevin Hart or its 21 Savage Anger the white folks it's a problem, you better backtrack it It's all good when you laughing at blacks expense But certain groups James Harden, you can't touch em without offense They only like you to a certain extent Yet you bending over backwards just to get the white man's consent Boy get off your knees And stop begging for the white man to love you Boy get on your feet And stop begging for the white man to hug you Boy get off your knees And stop waiting for the white man to plug you Boy get on your feet And start tryna please the man that's above you Now let me ask you a question, was this meant to be? Every year we voting blue so religiously Politicians got us voting for dependency Like government give me more, I got a family to feed Welfare 4 kids but we having more Then ask the white judge to put the black dad on child support And if he can't pay he's going to jail How we beg the government to give these black kids they lunch pail? Then those kids growing up with no guidance Start playing in the streets with the drugs and gun violence Slugs flying and sons dying, we be in silence But soon as a white cop drop one we be in street riots How Black lives only matter when a white takes it? To me what that sounds like is mental enslavement Stop waiting for the white man to save it And clean up our backyard before our whole race is dissipated Boy get off your knees And stop begging for the white man to love you Boy get on your feet And stop begging for the white man to hug you Boy get off your knees And stop waiting for the white man to plug you Boy get on your feet And start tryna please the man that's above you Counting other people's bands like where mine at But you could get it but I'm asking where your grind at Can't focus on school cuz you high in the back But yet you want $15 an hour to move a frying pan Jumping on the back of everyone else movements For them to look at you like you're black you must have gone through it Therefore you gotta support what it is we doing Wiping our whole race with a brush, I call that inhuman Get off your knees, yelling Gucci in every track He don't need your free promotion all the way in France You don't even know the name of your homie's brand He got a mixtape too, you ain't promoting that As a people we can rise if we unified But we letting outside influence just ruin lives The white man can't save you, only God can Get on your feet, start tryna please the God man Boy get off your knees And stop begging for the white man to love you Boy get on your feet And stop begging for the white man to hug you Boy get off your knees And stop waiting for the white man to plug you Boy get on your feet And start tryna please the man that's above you