BET, dead prez, Locksmith, Oswin Benjamin - 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards - Live Cypher lyrics

I promised my mama I wasn’t
Gon' curse on television
But Trump with a condom shelter system
Embodied the body of Christ
Scripture from a stand-up-
That's Kaepernick'in'
Presidential knowin' with this flow I
Coulda rapped for Nixon
I told Malcom Little, I had to get it
By any means, I'm Rodney King'in'
With Martin's dreams, sonny, listen
Punchlines Muhammad from Sonny Liston
Gray hair like the scalp of Regis
Rained on my wheel of fortune till
We felt drops from the ceilin'
But this Panther been Bobby Seale'in', oh
Silly me reporting what's in these streets
Gon' crucify me
In this tree (Industry) then hang me therе
With both my hands to the sky
'cause Lord knows
From any piglet if your pigmеnt like mine
Jesus Christ, Christopher Wallace and I, see
We all alike
'Cause with all this around us, we were
Born ready to die in America, my god

Hey, put your hands up
BET, put your hands up
Yeah, put your hands up
I see you, look, look

A Black person cannot be racist
So let's recite the tendencies
Racism is an institution
Created by the lies that
Hide in White supremacy
But everything black ain't white
So take ownership
Conflict existed before we were on the ship
No justice, no peace
But what's worse? The promethazine
Or the police
In yo streets, I'm giving what you lack, fam
But, I can see through it, like a CAT scan
From Crispus Attucks to sipping addicts
The fist person to die from this
Country was a Black man
But me, I'm just a half-breed
I'm just reppin' for The Rich
Another bad seed
Another rapper slash wannabe athlete
Who got this?
Signing off, yours truly, the Locksmith

It's been many moons, forty-four months June
Just coming out the cocoon and still
I'm wise now, got a new pair of eyes now
I'm ready to ride now
On my side of town you gotta know the terrain
Keep game or you end up with
A bullet in your brain
I been schooled by the same
Jewels the OGs use
It's the one jewel that separate
The student from the
Yo, you never stop learning till you die
That's why blind people use
Their ears to see, and not they eyes
So sharpen your intuition like
Blades and arrowheads
I'm ten steps ahead of from the fads
I'm the trapdoor in the closet that
Lead to the back door
The one you never find at
The scene of the crime
I'm the dirty exposé, the clean getaway
I'm the unexpected assassin striking
In broad day i keep it

Babylon is a Devil in a blue dress
Satan in a suit and tie
Oppression is freedom Heaven is Hell
And the truth is a lie
They murder the youth the police
Don't shoot in the sky
It's a war zone you do what
You gotta do to survive
You get suited and ride life
Is hustle or starve
This is capitalism religion money is God
America eats the young
Like cannibal breakfast
Wall Street is swarming with Hannibal Lecters
Crooked elections, politricks of the system
Legal lynchings, but I won't be a victim
Health is wealth
That's how I'm blinging and flashing
Self-love the new beast mode
I'm 'bout that action
I'm eating to live, health food
That's what I do
And I keep it true for my crew, like Sun Tzu
I see Snoop, and Gucci, and love to the fam
Black man, that's what I am, for all my fam