Plies - Equal lyrics

(Cheeze, Cheeze, Cheeze)

Y'all hung us and we forgave you
Y'all whooped us 'til we praised you
And how hundreds of years later
We still a slave to you? I say to you
"Treat us the same way
You treated Dylann Roof"
And y'all ain't 'posed to be scared of us
We 'posed to be scared of you
Dylann killed half of the church
Y'all took him to Burger King
Killed George Floyd 'bout twenty dollars
Knee on his neck and spleen
You don't wanna look like one of them
They'll try to steal your dream
"Protect and Serve" is the motto
Guess they don't know what it means
I'm tryna live
Live to that day I can see an all-black jury
2020 and I still ain't seen an all-black jury
Just got a text from my mama, said, "Babe
I hope you're safe"
I texted back and told her
"I hope they don't kill me by my race"

Equal, we just wanted to be treated equal
You bleed red, I bleed red, we all people
Equal, we just wanted to be treated equal
Kap took a knee and they fired him
All 'bout his people

You got a gun and I don't
The one who 'posed to be scared
The ones who chasing they dream ain't the
Ones who 'posed to be dead
And why the judge and the
Prosecutors ain't spoken out yet?
And systematic racism responsible for
Half of these bids
If it don't effect the majority
It ain't a problem, for real
That's opioids, a problem
Don't know what an opioid is
Now how the system gon' treat you
It all depend where you live
They only deem it a problem 'pending
On how the majority feel
He killed half of the church
They say he mentally disturbed
Some people did a lil' looting
White House called 'em a thug
With his Fortune 500 companies who
Stealin' from all of us
Corona killin' these inmates
Ain't nobody sayin' a word
He don't sympathize with a race
He care more 'bout the flag
They's black folk who fought and
Served too, lil' homie, that's facts
And once you show us who you is
It ain't no walking it back
You stood in the paint for his pain
And I love you for that in this world
There's two justices and we all know that
Paul Manafort stole millions and did
Two years for that
My partner got caught wit' crack cocaine
Got twenty-five for that
We're talkin' to you
Blue in the face but ain't no explainin' that
We ain't askin' for no favors
Just wanna be treated the same
If you only care about you
How you expect it to change?
If you've been privileged all your life
It's hard to feel our pain
And Mr officer, I'on want no
Problems, just don't kill me, man

No, the system ain't broke
It's workin' exactly how they designed it
The system don't work for everybody and ain't
No way you can deny it
If you don't think Jake and Tyrone
Deserve to be treated the same
Then you part of the problem
The system never gon' change
Everybody white ain't good and
Everybody black ain't bad
The education they give you
It all depend on your bag
The Indians were here first and
Y'all took it from them
I'on even know why stealing illegal 'cause
Y'all did it to them
Do you even know it feel to
Have a knee on your neck?
I'm talkin' 'bout the system now
They make it hard to progress
"A black man became president
So we ain't racist"
The eight years that he served
Half the world couldn't take it
The darker your skin is, to some
That mean you less qualified
The undercover racist dangerous 'cause he
Don't show you no signs
If they can make money off it
They'll welcome you to the club
And they'll smile in your face and call
You a nigga in the tub
You got value? That's the only
Way they dealin' wit' you
Fall off or go to prison?
Then they finished wit' you
I ain't just here to entertain you
I'm worth more than that
I can trade stocks just like you
My brother showed me that

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