[00:20.005] Yeah, yeah, ahem
[00:23.743] Yeah, I woke up feeling black couldn't be better
[00:28.240] Son woke up with that shine couldn't beat the weather
[00:30.922] Son woke up feeling fly didn't need a feather
[00:34.011] These the letters, me, a G forever, you get a e for effort
[00:36.880] Don't lower case me, no don't play me that's a big G
[00:39.851] Been moving 88 keys a week since I was 15
[00:43.025] Sunday morning special, ebony, and ivories
[00:46.050] You can find me with the bands while the choir sings
[00:49.777] Frankly, it's understood, I ain't Frank Lucas, even less Underwood
[00:53.736] I'm more Frank Kay, next to where Laurence stood
[00:57.172] That's a hey, whole choir boy from the hood
[01:00.640] Yeah I'm from the same soil as Gloria James' son
[01:03.940] Gassin' my hood up, my oil need a change, uh, ain't nothing
[01:07.973] 3:30 ain't the time it's the code, 3:30 ain't a line it's my mode
[01:13.452] I think I'm gettin' back to the old me
[01:17.202] Without that Cali boy, really you don't know me
[01:19.867] Had to get the rings so I left
[01:22.895] Still home, got it inked on my left
[01:25.942] Walkin' in like I'm the man of the year
[01:29.043] Heard a lot of no, now I'm the man of the yeah
[01:32.097] It's no problem that the Trinity can't answer back to
[01:35.470] Big 3 over my head so please don't Chance The Rapper
[01:38.571] I'm back bruh
[01:41.722] I woke up feeling black, proud to be out here
[02:06.210] The crew is stacked, ain't just me out here
[02:08.907] Who is that? Homie Kareem out here
[02:11.770] More than some tees out here
[02:13.769] We screaming, "We out here"
[02:14.898] Gotta find a way to monetize black twitter
[02:18.197] So they gotta pay if they tryna laugh with us
[02:21.639] Eyes on the prize, are we there yet? Nope
[02:24.706] Eyes to the skies, what you staring at? Hope
[02:27.482] I think I'm getting back to the old me
[02:30.844] That "screw your man-tan, new age, minstrel show" me
[02:33.811] Not bamboozled everything black God given
[02:37.140] So when they tell me, "Fall back" Y'all tripping
[02:40.178] The narratives ain't similar, they parallel
[02:43.170] On heaven as it is on earth, the paracletes to parasail
[02:45.968] Reformed is not a label I want you to tag me with
[02:49.411] The reformation was for Catholics not Africans
[02:52.341] I'm black, some days too much
[02:55.705] Feeling strapped, tryna pay bills with two bucks
[02:58.751] Feeling wack, watching other cats move up
[03:01.772] Feeling trapped, like you shooting craps, you stuck
[03:04.587] Believe me, feel like an all day job, it ain't easy
[03:08.709] Being black is dumb hard
[03:11.323] Somebody always saying that we pull the race card
[03:13.858] Then America turned around and pulled the Trump card
[03:17.015] On guard when the squad car pop guns off
[03:20.146] If you comply, resist, or you run off
[03:20.465] See your one crime is your skin, if your tone's dark
[03:26.482] You're the lead role, getting killed on the film, with the phone's out
[03:29.430] Whose the next victim getting screwed by the system
[03:32.765] Would they dig you a grave, or would they make you a slave
[03:36.352] Dirt cheap tombstone or 13th loophole just to make you behave
[03:41.071] It's insane