Cassidy - The Message lyrics

It's a real bad time for black celebrities
They lockin everybody up:

Michael Jackson, James Brown, Tupac
R kelly, OJ Simpson, mike Tyson
Kobe Bryant, Jay-Z, Mystikal, P diddy
Allen Iverson, Snoop Dogg, dMX
Styles P, Shine, Beanie Segal, Lil' Kim

Is it because I'm Black
Is it because I'm Black

When you black you got to hustle
Got to struggle and strive
And not every cat that goes
Through that struggle survive
But he got to stay stronger
And keep the struggle alive
They say the struggle died
I say the struggle revived
My profession is going through oppression
That's why I'm so stressed and
Im working with no rest
And no question ima fight for yall
Cause I don't like it yall
We make half as much as them
We workin twice as hard yall
It ain't fair sometimes you
Seein heaven signs, i ain't Pharaohcon
But I got knowledge and I'm sharing
Mines i swear it's time to
Be aware that they fear you mind
And they fear your heart you
Want to change heres the start i'm
Tired of watching cops outline
My peers and yall, I'm trying
To make a move, i'm not trying to make
The news they say the consequences
Worst when we break the
Rules to get back and right you
Got to make a sacrifice
Is it because I'm Black
Is it because I'm Black

We got some problems we need solve
Heres our chance to get them handle
Just take the boycott in Alabama for example
They stop ridin the bus till they
Address their affairs and they
Ended segregation in
Less then a year so imagine
What our status if we made a contribution
We'll probably be able to change the
Constitution i can't see no other kind
Of solution we deserve our reparation, it's
Time for a revolutions i'm a
Step ahead of Satan
I read it in Revelation forget
Your reputation, lets make it
A better nation
Cause they trying to cage us in
Make us slaves again, eventually it's meant
To be the new plantation, the penitentiary
For centuries they had a plan
We let them executed
Everyday another brother getting
Executed and all our artist getting arrested
I aspect improvement it's a message
In the music, I suggest you use it

Somebody tell me what can I do
Will I survive or will I die

On the streets it's hard to survive
Why, is it because I'm black
Hot Shot got rock
I can't bring my cousin back
Five-hundred thousand sold, gold
Yeah it wasn't platinum
But Clyde gave me another try
Cause I wasn't whack
And now im buzzin back
Yeah I got my budget back
Renegotiating got a mil to do a dozen tracks
Yea I'm eatin only reason is because I rap
My homies eatin only reason
Is because of crack they can't get a job so
Them niggas quick to rob, quick to steal
Quick to kill, grip the steal, quick to ride
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King we can't forget them guys
These politician
Hypocrites they got us hypnotize
That why I kiss rick, why
We got to lift our eyes
Cause if we keep'em close they
Just goin keep control
And hold our sisters and brothers in the
Pen and we was born guilty
Cause the color of our skin