Meek Mill - Young Black America lyrics
Meek Mill [Robert Rihmeek Williams] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Meek Mill - Young Black America lyrics]
Yeah, I was on that corner
Tryna get my coins up
Coppers run up on us and
We turn to Jackie Joyner
White man kill a black man
They never report us
Black man kill a white man
They gon' start a war up
Mama she was tore up, sippin' on the Absolut
Young niggas brainwashed
They just wanna rap and hoop
Could've been a lawyer until they
Came and shackled you
Felons on your records so them jobs
Ain't gettin' back at you
Them kids ain't eat yet
So you can't even sleep yet
If that's the only thing we ever saw
We repeat that
They was playing ball, fouled him hard
Said I'd be back
Broad day, threw his life away
Soon as he clapped
Gave that boy a life sentence
Made his momma relapse
Damn, they don't understand
Comin' from the bottom
It's so hard to make a plan
Know them kids beefin'
They let it get out of hand
OGs never told us nothin' in advance
Young niggas killing young niggas, shit
Is like the Klan, i said
Told my young nigga, "You the man" I said
You don't wanna end up like my man Ahmed
Praying five times a day
Prostration on his head
Screamin' insha'Allah that he don't make
It to the feds caught up in the system
Visit from his sister
Talkin' 'bout all his niggas
How they ain't even with him
Said they would ride or die
But it ain't even in 'em
Always postin' on the 'Gram
But they ain't sendin' pictures
Never answer when you call
But answer for them bitches
Got you thinking twice
Damn I should've been a witness
That’s none of my business
Just telling my story
All guns, no glory, been going on before me
Were slaves in the '40s
Still slaves in the present
No toys for Christmas
Ain't get us no presents
Only made us evil, made us hungry
Made us desperate
Youngin' in the 9th grade
He got a Smith and Wesson
Grew up with the goons
Now he need protection
He dropped outta school, then he got arrested
Lord with a blessing
I just hope he learned his lesson
They told us, if we go to jail
We would be respected
They told us, if we make a sale
We would run a check in
Threw a rock out in that field
We got intercepted he stumbled, he fumbled
Y'all niggas just rumble
They told you to hustle
Them niggas don't love you
Young black American, na na
Wanna live like the fairer skin, na na
Fall to the paradigm, na na
Occupied on that Marilyn, na na
The prophecies of the wild nigga, no church
My uncles said stop bitching nigga, no skirts
It's kinda crazy there's another world
On the other side of town
Pastor rollin' up in that Rolls
Pullin' up in that Holy Ghost
Preaching, while niggas dying by
The Bible code the destruction, the hate
The obstruction of my faith
My prayers, my faith will never be the same
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Tryna get my coins up
Coppers run up on us and
We turn to Jackie Joyner
White man kill a black man
They never report us
Black man kill a white man
They gon' start a war up
Mama she was tore up, sippin' on the Absolut
Young niggas brainwashed
They just wanna rap and hoop
Could've been a lawyer until they
Came and shackled you
Felons on your records so them jobs
Ain't gettin' back at you
Them kids ain't eat yet
So you can't even sleep yet
If that's the only thing we ever saw
We repeat that
They was playing ball, fouled him hard
Said I'd be back
Broad day, threw his life away
Soon as he clapped
Gave that boy a life sentence
Made his momma relapse
Damn, they don't understand
Comin' from the bottom
It's so hard to make a plan
Know them kids beefin'
They let it get out of hand
OGs never told us nothin' in advance
Young niggas killing young niggas, shit
Is like the Klan, i said
Told my young nigga, "You the man" I said
You don't wanna end up like my man Ahmed
Praying five times a day
Prostration on his head
Screamin' insha'Allah that he don't make
It to the feds caught up in the system
Visit from his sister
Talkin' 'bout all his niggas
How they ain't even with him
Said they would ride or die
But it ain't even in 'em
Always postin' on the 'Gram
But they ain't sendin' pictures
Never answer when you call
But answer for them bitches
Got you thinking twice
Damn I should've been a witness
That’s none of my business
Just telling my story
All guns, no glory, been going on before me
Were slaves in the '40s
Still slaves in the present
No toys for Christmas
Ain't get us no presents
Only made us evil, made us hungry
Made us desperate
Youngin' in the 9th grade
He got a Smith and Wesson
Grew up with the goons
Now he need protection
He dropped outta school, then he got arrested
Lord with a blessing
I just hope he learned his lesson
They told us, if we go to jail
We would be respected
They told us, if we make a sale
We would run a check in
Threw a rock out in that field
We got intercepted he stumbled, he fumbled
Y'all niggas just rumble
They told you to hustle
Them niggas don't love you
Young black American, na na
Wanna live like the fairer skin, na na
Fall to the paradigm, na na
Occupied on that Marilyn, na na
The prophecies of the wild nigga, no church
My uncles said stop bitching nigga, no skirts
It's kinda crazy there's another world
On the other side of town
Pastor rollin' up in that Rolls
Pullin' up in that Holy Ghost
Preaching, while niggas dying by
The Bible code the destruction, the hate
The obstruction of my faith
My prayers, my faith will never be the same
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America
Young black America young black America