Common, Bilal - U, Black Maybe lyrics

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe

I heard a white man's yes is a black maybe
I was delivered in this world as a crack baby
Hard for me to pay attention and I act crazy
Gotta get over from the tip
I watch the fat lady
Sing a song, on how we guerillas in warfare
And I'm the kingest kong
They say we dreaming wrong
Them same strips that them
Older cats lingered on
Now the Walgreens is gone
Hope is killed fiends are born
We leanin on a wall that
Ain't that ain't stable
It's hard to turn on the hood that made you
To leave we afraid to
The same streets that raised you can age you
With other black birds that's caged too
A rage up in Harlem and the southside
Brothers is starving with their
Mouth wide open
Floating across state got the workout plans
So they can move weight
The fate of the black man, woman
And child: maybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe

He had game since he used to hoop at Chatham
Neither the ghetto nor defenders
Could trap him
The stones had his back and they'd pat him
He was living a life they couldn't fathom
Colleges getting at him with
All type of scholarships
Even if he went they knew
He'd leave college quick
For the pros the one from
The hood that was chose
The black rose that grew in the jungle
But humble stud still had rumble in his blood
Women all around giving him trouble love
You know the love when you up they down
Cause you wrap a ball they round
Your win is their crown
Dudes in the circle he known for years
Shared beers and cheers but
Chose different careers
When paper and fame came they
Ain't know how to react
Them same studs shot him in the back
Now that's blackmaybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe

When we talk about black maybe
We talk about situations
Of people of color and because
You are that color
You endure obstacles and opposition
And not all the time
From from other nationalities
Sometimes it come from your own kind
Or maybe even your own mind
You get judgedyou get laughed at
You get looked at wrong
You get sighted for not being strong
The struggle of just being you
The struggle of just being us black maybe
Black maybe

Can't come around
They gon' wanna bring you down
No one knows just what's inside
Doing dope and doing time
Why they messing with your mind black maybe